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Aug 15th, 2003 at 9:29am

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  As I was flying around in FS2004, I started thinking about how far flight sims have come, I know this has probably been brought up in the past, but what was your first sim flying experience and on what system?

  Mine was the original Gunship by Microprose on the Commodore 64.
 
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Reply #1 - Aug 15th, 2003 at 10:04am

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It was FS98.  I have no idea what system I was running.  It was a long time ago and I got rid of it.  But for some reason I remember my first flight.  It was in Chicago, at Miegs.  I flew a C-172 around the city for a while using the keybroad.  Keybroad!  How primitive!  But since then I've bought all three of the CFS series, FS2000, and FS2002.
 
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Reply #2 - Aug 15th, 2003 at 10:08am

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ACE - Air Combat Emulator on the Commodore 16

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Reply #3 - Aug 15th, 2003 at 10:47am

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Something fishy on the C-64 which went broke very fast... had to do with IFR

after that:
Retalliator (286)
F-15 strike eagle 2(286) and 3(P60)
JET (funny program)
F-117 (P-600)

Microprose F-15 strike eagle 3 still is the best one of that series, i had the CD version which had a cool animated intro

Microsoft stuff in chronological order
FS5.1 (Pentium 60, first serious FS for me)
FS98 (Pentium 233/Voodoo 2, got that to a 100+FPS on mt Pentium 600 later on)
FS2000 (Pentiun 600/TNT2, whacky, slow and crashing too often)
FS2002 (AMD 1800XP/GF4Ti200, autogen and shine galore)
 
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Reply #4 - Aug 15th, 2003 at 11:00am

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my first go with a simulator was on a full sized army lynx simulator at middle wallop, my dad was in charge of putting the thing together and testing it, and since i spent most of my summer holiday helping with it i got to have a go.
 
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Reply #5 - Aug 15th, 2003 at 11:01am

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The year was 1987.  It was either FS1 or FS2 from what I've been able to figure out. 

The system was on my school's AppleII.

I recently saw a screen of that game...I had no idea it was so bad!  lol
 
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Reply #6 - Aug 15th, 2003 at 11:37am
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1960, Fort Bliss, Texas
B-52 sim, Black and white
film, A real thrill at the time!
I was 14!!

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Reply #7 - Aug 15th, 2003 at 12:25pm

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Flight Simulator II for Commodore 64.  Early 80's.

I have it now for my emulator and it still takes 3 minutes to load.
 
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Reply #8 - Aug 15th, 2003 at 12:33pm

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FS3 on my granddad's old computer, don't know what it was.  I look back on it now and wonder how we got thru those dark times. Roll Eyes
 
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Reply #9 - Aug 15th, 2003 at 1:06pm

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Psion Flight Simulator on a 48k ZX Spectrum.
I had a couple of game type ones too, but that was THE one.

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Reply #10 - Aug 15th, 2003 at 1:43pm

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Well let's see. These are the ones I used most frequently over the years.

FS Unknown mid 80s version (Mac LCIII Moterola 25mhz processor, before vid cards came out, my palm pilot has more computing power)
Tie Fighter (Moterola Starmax Mac clone, 200mhz)
Warbirds (PII 233mhz with no video card)
X-Wing (PII 233Mhz, no card)
CFS1 (PII 233mhz no video card)
XWing vs Tie Fighter (PII 233mhz, ATI Radeon PCI 32mb)
XWing Alliance (PII 233mhz, ATI Radeon PCI 32mb)
FS2002 (Duron 950, Geforce2 MX400)
CFS2 (Same system as FS2k2)
CFS3 (Duron 950, Geforce FX5200)
FS2004 (Duron 950, GF FX5200)
 
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Reply #11 - Aug 15th, 2003 at 1:44pm

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Sorry to be a moderator bashing bastard but this topic is about flight sims which is forbidden in this forum is it not? Just read its description on the main page. Tongue

I think it should be put back in general discussion. You moderators should set an example you know. Undecided Wink Smiley
 
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Reply #12 - Aug 15th, 2003 at 2:06pm
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Reply #13 - Aug 15th, 2003 at 2:17pm

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Ozzy moved this here from the GD forum. He must have hit his head while rock climbing last week.  Grin
 
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Reply #14 - Aug 15th, 2003 at 3:13pm

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 Have you noticed that 'General Discussion' says non-FS stuff, but the 'Cafe' say FS speak not allowed?
 I didn't know where to put this topic, it is flight sim related but a general question unrelated to any particular flight sim.
 
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