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The first Flight Simulator you used? (Read 1213 times)
May 10th, 2012 at 1:47pm

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Do you still remember wich one was it? In my case it was, as I recall "FLIGHT SIMULATOR" (just that) for Sinclair Spectrum 16K Smiley Smiley
I still remember the wire black and white graphics (despite the Spectrum was in colors), and also the HUGe dificulty to land properly (I do not remember the airplane, it was some Cessna single engine high-wing model). And I still remember how delighted and amazed I was: to have such a PERFECT flight simulator in my desk was a dream come true... Smiley
 
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Reply #1 - May 10th, 2012 at 1:57pm

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The first one I used...
I tried one that my dad was using when I was about 6,it was either FS9 or FS8,then came FS8 again roughly 3-4 years ago and then the leap to FSX gold edition. Cool
 
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Reply #2 - May 10th, 2012 at 2:18pm

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Reply #3 - May 10th, 2012 at 2:19pm

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First one was MS Flight Sim. for Mac although I subsequently got an Apple IIe and used MS Flight Sim2, even though it was older and slower (Flight Sim for Mac came out after Flight Sim2).  Ahhh, memories of my long-expired youth... Smiley
 
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Reply #4 - May 10th, 2012 at 2:22pm

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My 1st sim was the DOS version that came with my 1st PC back in 1983. I used every upgrade since, but my heart still belongs to FS 2004. Wink Smiley Smiley
 
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Reply #5 - May 10th, 2012 at 4:35pm

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My first FS was FS2002. I found it by accident when I was about 9 (around mid 2002) in my unlce's computer. I remember going to his house after school to play a bit of FS until my mother came from work to get me. Oh the fun times I had with the F-4U and Extra 300. I remember I never banked the aircraft because I couldn't level them after doing it!  Grin  I never found the instalation CDs though. A short time after I got FS2004 for myself, and kinda forgot about FS2002.
 
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Reply #6 - May 10th, 2012 at 5:00pm

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Flight Simulator II for Commodore 64
 
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Reply #7 - May 10th, 2012 at 5:14pm

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Webb wrote on May 10th, 2012 at 5:00pm:
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Flight Simulator II for Commodore 64



Same here, only on an Atari XE! Cheesy Hi-tech stuff for it's day.
 
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Reply #8 - May 10th, 2012 at 6:32pm

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After my Apple 2e, Z80, and Z81...

One of many, for my 1983 Sinclair Spectrum 48K...>>>

http://gamesdbase.com/game/sinclair-zx-spectrum/combat-lynx.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunship_%28video_game%29

.....and my all-time favourite...>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary_%28video_game%29  which I still play, my own hacked version!

...and shall we ever forget...ELITE!... Cheesy...!

After which I then Programmed my own games, etc, on my trusty Speccy Plus...and still do, in BASIC and Zilog Z80 Machine Code..to this very day!
http://www.spectaculator.com/

Flight unlimited II/III, Fly!, Gunship, Pro Pilot 99, and FS '98 was my first real ingress into PC the Versions of the game/sim, following my Amiga 1200.

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Reply #9 - May 10th, 2012 at 6:34pm

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FS2004  Tongue

For some reason, before 2006, I had never cared about planes or flight simulation...
 
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Reply #10 - May 10th, 2012 at 6:38pm

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CFS1 then FS2002.
 
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Reply #11 - May 10th, 2012 at 6:57pm

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There is no doubt that the late 1970's and early 1980's was the unique time for home computer exploration, with every bedroom throughout the world full of young, clever, enthusiastic, 8-bit computer programmers, (like me!) spending every hour of every day writing Computer code, and turning it into their own computer games, etc.

"Fozzersoft"... Wink...!

(But Bill Gates was the bloke who finally beat me to it, with "Microsoft"!)... Grin...!

A truly magic time for youngsters (and oldies!), which I wouldn't have missed for the world, courtesy of Sir Clive Sinclair, etc!... Smiley...!

A time that today's youngsters have missed out on... Cry...!

Paul...8-bit programmer...with a few bits left over... Grin..!
 
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Reply #12 - May 10th, 2012 at 7:04pm

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Flight Simulator 5.1  Smiley
 
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Reply #13 - May 10th, 2012 at 7:18pm

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-19_Stealth_Fighter

Then everything after that pretty much in the order it was released Cool


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Reply #14 - May 11th, 2012 at 7:30am

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Cfs1.
Then a lot of money!
 
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