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Offline Sixpence

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« Reply #30 on: March 15, 2003, 11:10:21 PM »
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Nah the yellow plane has the BnZ advantage.. :)


Perk the yellow plane!
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« Reply #31 on: March 16, 2003, 01:39:56 PM »
ATP by Sublogic. This is how MS Flight got started.
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« Reply #32 on: March 16, 2003, 03:03:55 PM »
First flight simulator I flew had no screen at all.  Was just a aircraft instrument panel/wheel thing you put on a desk or table for IFR training.  The graphics were left to your imagination.

In those days our computer ( a Data General Nova 4) needed an air-conditioned room just for the equipment (disk packs were  2 feet in diameter) and we used a ticker tape fed TELEX for important business communications.
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« Reply #33 on: March 16, 2003, 03:31:53 PM »
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In those days our computer ( a Data General Nova 4) needed an air-conditioned room just for the equipment (disk packs were  2 feet in diameter) and we used a ticker tape fed TELEX for important business communications.


Nostalgia, I used to maintain a Data General Nova 3, was used to process data for ATC radar. Long since replaced.
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« Reply #34 on: March 16, 2003, 05:20:13 PM »
11 years old and still the best of its type...and the only one.
Shuttle
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« Reply #35 on: March 16, 2003, 05:21:26 PM »
here's an external shot
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« Reply #36 on: March 17, 2003, 01:07:26 AM »
Naw that aint the only shuttle sim!!  Get XPLANE. the shuttle is included with it!

The first flight sim I played was "dam busters" If I could just get it to work today!!! you flew a lanc. You had an egineers station, to set the superchargers and engines for take off...becareful you can overboost and blow them up!! the pilot station, nav, bomb aimer, and front and rean gunners. You had to fly from england to one of three dams and back, avoid the search lights and flak over cities. drop down to the lake and skip your bomb to the dam and return and land. What a blast this game was!!
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« Reply #37 on: March 17, 2003, 03:51:15 AM »
Still have it, complete in box with 5 1/4 floppies, a WWI flight sim  Also SWOTL complete with "Code Wheel",, now, if I still had an old 5 1/4 drive..  :(

Still have the Yeager also.

Remember the Mig Alley Ace on C 64...  friend and I spent HOURS flying that...
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« Reply #38 on: March 17, 2003, 06:40:11 AM »
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Naw that aint the only shuttle sim!!  Get XPLANE. the shuttle is included with it!


heh I used to have a copy of that shuttle simulator, when they say "shuttle sim" they mean "shuttle sim" as in all of the panels, computers, launch, orbit, re-entry, landing.

udet, do you have a copy of it still?
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« Reply #39 on: March 17, 2003, 07:49:39 AM »
Falcon AT was my first flight sim. I didn't even own a computer so played on my work PC which didn't even have a mouse. It was so 'realistic' except that I couldn't land it except by shutting down the engine so that is spun neatly onto the ground?????

Then sublogic's ATP which was great for practising IFR flying.

My favourites were the Chuck Yeager series complete with an audio tape from the great man himself.  In Advanced flight trainer you could fly the X15. The air racing feature was excellent and hardly excelled since in any sim I've seen. You had to fly against your own best times which meant some close racing. Chuck's Air Combat simulator was ahead of it's time for playability but not graphics. My version was much copied I think at times there were more people playing it than working in any of the offices of the airline I worked for at the time.

Ah nostalgia
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« Reply #40 on: March 17, 2003, 09:35:04 AM »
mig 29 fulcrum...can get a screenie at http://www.the-underdogs.org

quite a few old games there...most of wich looked thrice as good in there 8-bit counterparts...
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« Reply #41 on: March 17, 2003, 02:11:57 PM »
They year was 1987.  Falcon  from Spectrum Holobyte:



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« Reply #42 on: March 17, 2003, 03:00:55 PM »
Some day flight sims will look like this. Your computer 1984.

NO they look better.
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« Reply #43 on: March 17, 2003, 03:30:42 PM »
Aviator, BBC micro, c 1983

The first real flight sim I played, with analogue controls, and a proper flight model
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« Reply #44 on: March 17, 2003, 03:32:37 PM »
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heh I used to have a copy of that shuttle simulator, when they say "shuttle sim" they mean "shuttle sim" as in all of the panels, computers, launch, orbit, re-entry, landing.

udet, do you have a copy of it still?


http://www.the-underdogs.org

has this sim and a lot more...
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