Author Topic: 1990 Flight Simming (vid) (Read 1614 times)

Boroda · « **Reply #45 on:** September 30, 2007, 05:38:33 PM »

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Originally posted by MotleyCH
My first Sim was on the TRS-80. It had vector graphics which blew my mind at the time.

TRS-80!

Back in 1986 Soviet "Radio" magazine issued blueprints and schemes of how to build an "RK-86" personal computer. A TRS-80. Thousands of people have taken their soldering irons and made it. A first personal computer sold in the USSR for public was a BK-001, it appeared in 1987 and cost a 6 month salary of an engineer. Apple-II clone called "Agat" cost 2 times more.

In 1986 I first saw a PDP-9 clone called DVK-1, and then studied for three years at school to become an IBM/360 operator. At that time we played Startrek.

First IBM/PC machines I saw were Bulgarian PC/3270 clones called ESTL (ES-1839), with 5Mb hard drives and 15" CGA monitors (green-monochrome). It was in the Uni in 1989. Kinda hard to imagine a personal machine with 640kb RAM when we studied on ES-1022 (IBM/360 clone) that had 128kb total and handled 20 terminals, while calculating it's main job, with punch-cards and so on

Mark Luper · « **Reply #46 on:** September 30, 2007, 05:44:25 PM »

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Originally posted by MotleyCH
My first Sim was on the TRS-80. It had vector graphics which blew my mind at the time.

This was my first one too. I played it on a Apple IIe with an add on board that raised the total memory to 128k? Maybe it was 64k. Been too long. I ran it off of 5" floppy disk drives. I couldn't afford a hard drive.

Mark

Vulcan · « **Reply #47 on:** September 30, 2007, 06:07:44 PM »

The first sim I can remember playing:

Solo Flight on an Atari 800XL.

Vulcan · « **Reply #48 on:** September 30, 2007, 06:08:48 PM »

Anyone remember this:

I still have a sealed box at home

MotleyCH · « **Reply #49 on:** September 30, 2007, 08:45:28 PM »

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Originally posted by Mark Luper
This was my first one too. I played it on a Apple IIe with an add on board that raised the total memory to 128k? Maybe it was 64k. Been too long. I ran it off of 5" floppy disk drives. I couldn't afford a hard drive.

Mark

Heh, mine had a cassette drive..used it on my Atari 800XL also:rolleyes:

FiLtH · « **Reply #50 on:** September 30, 2007, 10:14:30 PM »

My first flight sim was Solo Flight. Had a cool little mail delivery mission thing. Then I got MS FS II and a bunch or them since. Also the Aces over Pac/Europe, among others.