Can't help you on your plane, but did you know FS wasn't
originally a microsoft program?  a couple of guys in
Illinois made it.  I first flew it on an apple 2e in the
early eighties. You should still be able to find copies of
the original versions (there are a few, I can't remember
how many) available on the internet, but you'll probably
need to download an Apple Emulator to get them to work on
modern dos machines.  Just though the number one fan might
like to know. Good luck finding your plane.....

I note that in flightsim.com there are several Cubana de Aviación  aircraft, dating back to FS5 Constellation/Viscount, to current livery aircraft....


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try www.avsim.com !

its really useful and full of files

There was a sim called ATP- Airline Translport Pilot around the time of FS4 which was I think written by the same people. I think they wrote it on behalf of M$ before FS 95 was launched.

Scottler wrote on Apr 29^th, 2005 at 10:28pm:



LMAO, bout to beat that record....

At the time of original posting, I had found an old copy somewhere on the net, don't remember where now, but when I finnally got it to run, it ran so fast on my then modern early pentium machine, that I couldn't fly it at all.  There was probbably a way to slow it down to usefull FPS, but I never invested the time.  Now I just wish I could figure out what I did with the program. Can't seem to find another free copy.

Flight Simulator II runs fine on my Commodore 64 emulator.

Of course it looks better.  Your massive 64Mb RAM is 1000 times as much as a C64. 

Webb wrote on Feb 16^th, 2007 at 2:51pm:


1024 times, please. My laptop insists on this.

...and never forget the massive power of a Pentium MMX 233Mhz over a 6510 at 1 measly megahertz.


Camel_Moe wrote on Feb 17^th, 2007 at 2:59am:


You prolly are. But then, I am too. And everyone who remembers with nostalgia old softwares gone by (that nowadays we'd never use even as a freeware ) is as well.

Camel_Moe wrote on Feb 17^th, 2007 at 4:21pm:


One of those who opened laterally to show a plasma monochrome red display and which keyboard was the mobile opening hatch? Waaaa... we go way back with those. Seen only on magazines, at the time were the non plus ultra, nowadays are endearing old traps.

Like the portable C64. A friend of mine has it still. A suitcase sized computer with 5 inches tube screen (can't remember now if it was mono or color) and which keyboard was the upper covering of the suitcase and a 5 1/4 inches floppy drive only with no cassette option (the audio cassette was a very widely used media for software, at the time).

Nowadays I use old softwares on my Pentium MMX 233 + 512MB cache laptop (on which for a while I installed first FS4, for retrogaming, because it was my first, and then FS95, who is a windowed porting of FS5.1 [found them both on the abandonware rings, some time ago]). Been trying to find one of those ancient softwares that slowed down pentiums to 286 speeds in dos to play even more ancient stuff nowadays found as abandonware, with no success.

Some time ago had for a while a color screen laptop with a 486 25Mhz with no secondary cache and 20 MB ram and the sole floppy disk as interface, but gave it away. Its video ram was defective, originally 512MB were wired on the mainboard, but only 256 were working when I used it.

I guess different screen types were used on different models of the same computer. Really can't remember more about it and struck a long term memory thread only because of the unusual screen tech and color, back then.

My absolute first was a CBM PET, given to me by my late uncle that used it in his office, when he passed to other system in... 85 I think. A lifetime ago for real. A beast of computer with mono green 12 inch tube display and keyboard all fused in a incredibly heavy single metal encased machine. It had a separate and only slightly lighter double 5 1/4 inch high density floppy unit that amassed each up to 1.2 Mb (an impossible quantity of storage memory, way back then).

Gave it away for a C64 on which to play videogames. lol. Was young, back then.

Non_Jetreader2 wrote on Feb 19^th, 2007 at 11:14am:


Seem to remember something like that, but was way before. Something about 10~12 years ago.

Only a vague memory at that. Cannot be of any help.

Sorry, I am older. Use FS1 many year ago. BAO London, England. Now, we both old.