Simviation Forum - My first Simulator

Sep 28^th, 2010 at 9:17pm

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Do you know what it is? Cheesy

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Reply #1 - Sep 28^th, 2010 at 9:43pm

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"Fly!" or "Fly2K" by Terminal Reality?

My first was Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2, followed by Fly!II, then FS2002, FS2004, and now FSX.

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Reply #2 - Sep 29^th, 2010 at 5:22am

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My first Simulator was "Gunship"; Helicopter Simulation on my 1982 8-bit Sinclair Spectrum....(and don't forget "Elite"!... Wink

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Speccy Gunship

One or two Flight Sims on my Amiga 500/1200....

Followed by Pro Pilot, Pro pilot '99, Fly!, Flight Unlimited 1/2/3*, Pro Flight 2000, Gunship, Apache Havok, Longbow, Longbow 2...etc...etc...
....FS '98/2000/2002/2004/FSX...
...CFS 1/2/3...

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004...FS Nav...and crates of computer games dating from the 1970's, together with all their Computers, etc... Grin

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* The PC Flight Sim which got me hooked on my daily California flights for the past 10+ years... Shocked

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Moral: "Must get out more"... Roll Eyes

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Reply #3 - Sep 29^th, 2010 at 8:02am

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Look at those graphics! Shocked

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Reply #4 - Sep 29^th, 2010 at 10:05am

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I had MSFS 5, Flight Unlimited, CFS1, MSFS98, CFS2, MSFS2002, CFS3, MSFS2004, MSFSX.

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Reply #5 - Oct 2^nd, 2010 at 12:50pm

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Nice shots!
My first sim was FS2 - I feel really old now Embarrassed

Edit: just remembered solo flight - awesome sim
http://www.c64-wiki.de/images/e/ec/soloflight1.png

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Reply #6 - Oct 2^nd, 2010 at 7:00pm

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Nice! Mine was FS5.1, which I still have the disc for!

Cheers,
RB

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Reply #7 - Oct 2^nd, 2010 at 9:17pm

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Like Fozzer I started on the Speccie! My first FS was the 48Kb Speccie FS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UTyyps_cCk

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #8 - Oct 2^nd, 2010 at 9:40pm

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Jordan, those graphics are incredible!!! Shocked

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Reply #9 - Oct 3^rd, 2010 at 6:38pm

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I believe that is ProFlight, or something like that, I had it. My absolute first was Chuck Yeager's ATF on the ole Tandy 1000 back in the 80s, before even Microsoft FS (at least for me).

Dave

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Reply #10 - Oct 3^rd, 2010 at 7:43pm

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My first was Chuck Yeager's Air Combat MS-DOS, then Jane's Fighters Anthology and Jane's AH-64D Longbow, then FS2004, CS 2 & 3. There were a few lesser known mixed in. Come to think of it, some Nintendo hang glider may have been the first.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #11 - Oct 3^rd, 2010 at 7:50pm

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DaveSims wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2010 at 6:38pm:

I believe that is ProFlight, or something like that, I had it. My absolute first was Chuck Yeager's ATF on the ole Tandy 1000 back in the 80s, before even Microsoft FS (at least for me).

Actually Paul had it with Sierra Pro Pilot. I love this sim. Grin

I don't mind the 400-500 FPS either! Cheesy

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Reply #12 - Oct 3^rd, 2010 at 8:43pm

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skoker wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2010 at 7:50pm:

DaveSims wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2010 at 6:38pm:

I believe that is ProFlight, or something like that, I had it. My absolute first was Chuck Yeager's ATF on the ole Tandy 1000 back in the 80s, before even Microsoft FS (at least for me).

I don't mind the 400-500 FPS either! Cheesy

When will FSX run like this? Oh, that's right, never. Grin

(well, maybe not for about 10 more years... Roll Eyes

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Reply #13 - Oct 4^th, 2010 at 12:16am

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My 1st was the DOS thing in '83 WW1, like stick figures,shot down 17 one night! I graduated to a PCX, 286 in '85 with a 10 MHZ HDD and that was greater than s%$#, then FS95, FS98, 2K, 2K2, ect. I still fly Jane's WW2 & Jane's IAF. I still have several programs that are DOS, like Mig Alley & a couple of Jane's thing I don't remember the name of. I'm a junkie. They don't necessarily conform to my new joy stick, but they are still a gas to play.
Flight Sims are almost as good as porn, 3 AM is bed time. Can't imagine why else they built computers.

Dave Wink

Retired but not yet dead,

Dave

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Reply #14 - Oct 4^th, 2010 at 3:07pm

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skoker wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2010 at 7:50pm:

DaveSims wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2010 at 6:38pm:

I believe that is ProFlight, or something like that, I had it. My absolute first was Chuck Yeager's ATF on the ole Tandy 1000 back in the 80s, before even Microsoft FS (at least for me).

Actually Paul had it with Sierra Pro Pilot. I love this sim. Grin

I don't mind the 400-500 FPS either! Cheesy

The delightful thing about Looking-Glasses' Flight Unlimited II/III, Flight!, Sierra's Pro Pilot '99, Pro Flight 2000, Flight Simulator FS2000, Longbow2, Gunship, and various other Flight Sims, etc, was that you had fantastic, highly detailed, comprehensive, Flight Manual Books supplied with them, which I regularly use for reference, even now!
They make educational, Bed-time reading*...excellent for learning Radio Navigation, etc!

We don't get them supplied in the box any more!... Cry

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Paul...G-BPLF..FS 2004...FS Nav... Cool

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* ..its all we Bachelors have, to occupy or minds, whilst in Bed... Roll Eyes

...Trust me!... Wink

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Dell Dimension 5000 BTX Tower. Win7 Home Edition, 32 Bit. Intel Pentium 4, dual 2.8 GHz. 2.5GB RAM, nVidia GF 9500GT 1GB. SATA 500GB + 80GB. Philips 17" LCD Monitor. Micronet ADSL Modem only. Saitek Cyborg Evo Force. FS 2004 + FSX. Briggs and Stratton Petrol Lawn Mower...Motor Bikes. Gas Cooker... and lots of musical instruments!.... ...!
Yamaha MO6,MM6,DX7,DX11,DX21,DX100,MK100,EMT10,PSR400,PSS780,Roland GW-8L v2,TR505,Casio MT-205,Korg CX3v2 dual manual,+ Leslie 760,M-Audio Prokeys88,KeyRig,Cubase,Keyfax4,Guitars,Orchestral,Baroque,Renaissance,Medieval Instruments.

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Reply #15 - Oct 4^th, 2010 at 4:52pm

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My first simulator was a flight simulator for MSX. Not sure if it was this one: http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsvault/fs2-msx.htm. If I remember correctly it had a kind of framewire panel and scenery but once airborn the top of the screen would turn white and your aircraft would be displayed as a black dot which you could move around on some sort of map, I think. Long time ago and I never used it that much.

After that it was FS98, 2000, 2002 and 2004.

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Reply #16 - Oct 5^th, 2010 at 4:41pm

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Hmmm.... My first one was F-16 Fightin Falcon by Spectrum Holobyte, back in 1985 or 86, I think. Then, I had plenty of good time with Jet Fighter II by Velocity. Gave FS4 a try back then, but I was less than impressed.... Grin

After that, a long pause, and resumed with FS2002.

&&&&Wasnt she beautiful???

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Reply #17 - Oct 14^th, 2010 at 6:18pm