Fozzer wrote on Sep 25^th, 2011 at 2:23pm:


I loved FU2 and 3. Once you joined them together you had northern and southern California in detail that at time still puts FSX to shame. Also as I recall there was a config line you could add so that all airports to around half width of the USA from the West Coast appeared. I loved flying around in the Beech Jet and the "Windstar".....a Beech Baron. Supposedly the name had to be changed as FU had crash graphics for each aircraft and Beech got upset, but not about the Beech Jet though  

I first started off on a Sinclair Spetrum, then a Spectrum plus. I then went to a Commodore Amiga, followed by an Amiga 1200 with a hard drive. At that point I was king of the world, a hard drive!!  The only reason I bought each one and (in my eyes) upgraded each time was because of flight sims, though the first games I had for the Specky was Jet pack Willy and Manic Miner. In 1993 I sold all my Amiga and Sinclair remnants and bought a PC. A 486 DX with 4MB of ram and a 256 MB hard drive......man was I cruising . I had a "borrowed" copy of FS4. I bought FS5 shortly after and the difference was unbelievable. I then bought TFX and when it came out, EF2000 and a 4MB expansion chip as EF2000 was a hungry game. After EF2000 with its water and the terrain, I really felt let down when I got FS95. But to be honest, I have always felt let down by every flight Sim and the ground graphics. Maybe I am expecting too much

Here is a blast from the past Fozzer, 1985





Matt

Fozzer wrote on Sep 26^th, 2011 at 5:02pm:


You should come over and visit me in Germany Fozzer, I live down the road from Paderborn where the Heinz Nixdorf computer museum is. You name it, they have it. After wondering around it, you would be ready to die a happy man. Even my wife was impressed

http://en.hnf.de/

Matt

Do you know what?...

Due to this thread, I suddenly realise what all today's youngsters have missed out on...

"How A Computer Works!"

In the early days of 8-Bit computers, we all learned quickly the inner and outer workings of a computer, and how to program them to do anything we wanted!
We browsed through the memory of the computer, knowing exactly where different parts of the program were stored, and how to modify them.
We understood the workings of the Central Processor, and how to program it in Machine Code (Assembler).
...and the BASIC language was written in plain English, for all to understand!
There was much joy to be had in directly inputting various commands on the keyboard, and seeing the results displayed on the screen (Television)!
All this early magic is lost on the present computer gamers.

Try doing that in Windows 7!.... ....!

I think its such a shame!

Paul... ..!

10 INPUT A: PRINT A (2)
20 INPUT B: PRINT B (4)
30 LET C = A*B ( 2 times 4)..(or any other mathematical equation)
40 PRINT C (8)

Simple, innit?... ...!

Just popped my Atari 2600 on one side for a moment whilst I fire up my Babbage Computer...

http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/

...and play the mechanical version of Packman... ...!

Paul... ...

I need to stoke the boiler up first, and oil the gears..... ...!

todayshorse wrote on Sep 29^th, 2011 at 2:52am:


..the many joys of leading a solitary life on ones own, Horse...

I can fill my house up with tons of toys/stuff/things to play with, and no-one to complain about it....

(I spent a whole of my working life-time collecting; "stuff" to play with, for when I retired)... ...

...I'm reaping the results now!... ...!

(My large, 3-bedroomed house is nowhere big enough... I need an Aircraft Hanger now!).... ...!

Paul...buried under "Stuff"...Joy!.......!

P.S...all my Children occurred during the breeding season... ...!