Was there...at the start, following "The Strip"... ...!

Happy times!

Paul... ...!

(The Forum Posts started from scratch again in Jan 2002).

I remember that.  Been a long time.

Club508 wrote on Jan 1^st, 2012 at 7:56pm:


The earliest Members here started from Jan 2002 (Profiles) when the Site was again modified, but many of us were here long before that, its just that the Site has been upgraded a few times since the start, and our Posts had to start all over again.
Doug (Hagar) is probably the longest serving, regular Member here, and was around during "The Strip" days. I followed "The Strip" for a while before registering on the first earliest Forums.

The earliest records are now getting lost in the mists of time!

A couple of our earliest Members are still here, and occasionally pop-up from time-to-time!

Its been a long time, and a big part of my life has been spent here over the years!

Paul... ...!

BFMF wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2012 at 4:53pm:


Andrew...

...you are one of our few Members left from the; "Olden Days"... ...!

Paul... ...!

I remember when we had to start all over again in Jan 2002!... ...!

BFMF wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2012 at 5:09pm:


Andrew...

As long as you can still type; "Nice Pic", you will always be remembered...

..trust me!.. ...!

Paul... ... ...!

Fozzer wrote on Jan 1^st, 2012 at 7:12pm:


the Strip? like stripclub? I didn't knew that one LOL.. my goodness! thanks Pete that change that ugly name 

This Forum will have its 10th anniversary this year!

So now I get it ,I began to see the forum when FS2002 was release,the forum was also new like FS2002 ,I was so scared to register and most to post in English
as far I can remember Simv forum was the only one at that time(At least the most friendly and happy ,even the colors were cool ..I try to register in other forum I won't mention but all I can recall was You have to paid paid paid!!

I used to spend a lot of time just reading the fs2000 and FS2002 things questions answers ( a huge step with the ATC voice )

To Me Simv Forums was the example that latter other sites would follow ,was the first , the best..

I have spend a while looking for these old HTML files that I save many of them just to show the new people how was the very old forum but this is how the forum looked in 2005 which its was about the same in 2003 when I came in (there used to be like a library site that you could actually see old sites like this ,I don't know if it still on the web)

2005
and this was my first success using FS9-SDK  ,I made a dummy model with flaps VC spoilers yokes etc , I was so happy that day   

I think this post its great thanks to Xpand  , it recall us back in the beginning of this wonderful hobby the Flight Simulation in computers,

its is opportunity for some of us to share,Our beginnings like Fozzer's has a wonderful story back in 198? He's being in this a longer time than all of us except Hagar..It would be nice to read it

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So this is when Simv Forums was born wit this name So Simv Forums will be have 10 years ,this year ..

 

this was my first simulator ,and arcade machine back in 1990 which I almost sale my kidneys to play everyday at one point I was so popular in that arcade games club that most of the time I didn't paid the coins

Sega G-Lock Battle 

then a Police man friend of mine show me FS98 and that would change my life 


Alex





 

I suspect that there are many old Fogies, and a few younger Fogies amongst us, who were involved in the early days of Home Computing.... ...!

As Alex has recalled, my interest in computers started in the early 1970's with the various Games Consoles, and the first of the Home Computers; Apple IIe, quickly followed by the classic Sinclair (Timex) Z80, Z81 and the wonderful Sinclair Spectrum 48K, and the Commodore C64...Amstrad CPC 464, BBC B.....etc...etc...!
We all spent many hours in each others bedrooms busy typing out various programs on our 8-Bit computers, in BASIC and Machine Code, with amazing results, and learning all the time!
My house is overflowing with all those old Computers and Consoles, and all their mountains of Software and Hardware!

The 8-Bit Computers were followed by the various 16-Bit Computers Atari 1024 and the lovely Amiga 500 and 1200 (which I still run)...

...and then came the 32-Bit PC's...and all our Bedroom programming suddenly came to a standstill with the introduction of "Desktops" with their versions of MS "Windows"...and none of us could program in 32 Bits!...(The addresses are far too long!)... ... ...!

But my love of 8-Bits still carries on today, and I still spend many happy hours programming my Sinclair Spectrum 48K's, C64's, Amstrad 464, etc... etc...JOY!... ....!

The birth of the first 8-Bit Home Computers was a milestone in modern Computing, and fondly remembered by we early programmers!

The name "Fozzersoft" still remains, together with "Microsoft"... ...!

Paul...10 FOR i = 1 to 10: BEEP .05,i.... ...!

P.S...Uncle Bill was slightly more successful than me!.. ...!

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