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Microsoft announces Flight Simulator X

firefriendly said:
Why is it that I can't stop buying each new edition? They've come a long way from their original that came out when, 94?
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Before that actually. subLOGIC released Flight Simulator 1 for the Apple II in 1979. In 1982, a version was made for the IBM PC licensed to Microsoft, called Flight Simulator 1.01. I started with Flight Simulator 4.0, which was made in 1989. I loved that program, its polygon graphics... brilliant. The current Flight Simulator 2004 is version 9.1. It's come a long LONG way.

Flight Simulator 1
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Flight Simulator 4.0 (my first)
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firefriendly said:
Have you ever played this game where you are an astronaut? It was on some 80's system and I remember as a kid having to preflight and put in course trajectories etc etc. You were supposed to reach the moon and come back, but I never made it that far, but what can you expect from a kid thats button mashing.
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Haha no, but I did have Microsoft Space Simulator. Man that was tough to learn.
 
Fly Navy said:
Before that actually. subLOGIC released Flight Simulator 1 for the Apple II in 1979. In 1982, a version was made for the IBM PC licensed to Microsoft, called Flight Simulator 1.01. I started with Flight Simulator 4.0, which was made in 1989. I loved that program, its polygon graphics... brilliant. The current Flight Simulator 2004 is version 9.1. It's come a long LONG way.

HAHA I had microsoft 1.01 back in the days of our first computer, I think I was around 4 at the time. Amazing that it all fit on one floppy disk. I'm pretty sure it had a pretty heavy influence on my drive towards flying. Then did the 4.0 thing (4 floppy disks I think), and while I was at UND they gave us a copy of 2002 (3 CDs). Never played 2002 though because the laptops we were required to lease didn't have the horsepower to run it at a decent rate :confused:

That new version looks pretty amazing though. Looks like it'll take some serious hardware to run it.
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puck_11 said:
That new version looks pretty amazing though. Looks like it'll take some serious hardware to run it.
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Yeah, if you want it to look like the screenshots, it'll definitely take a serious machine. I've owned every copy of Flight Simulator since version 4.0 to 2004. It's a sickness.
 
My latest version is 98. I know, it's a shame. A scadal even. From the screenshots it looks sick nasty. Did I just cream my pants?

O crap, gotta go.
 
Am I the only one who noticed the gay-pride-purple painted jet ranger in the pictures? I mean, I know it's a dinky little thing, but come on.
 
man, busier than a one legged butt kicker.. Wrapping up college... checking the site from time to time... great to see the regulars are still alive and kickin!
 
I was using MSFS ever since I was 10. Im a pro now haha. Did anyone ever play Fleet Defender or Hornet. Thats too bad software designers no longer create very many military flight simulator games.
 
Lonestar155 said:
I was using MSFS ever since I was 10. Im a pro now haha. Did anyone ever play Fleet Defender or Hornet. Thats too bad software designers no longer create very many military flight simulator games.
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Combat Sims pretty much killed themselves. It was the whole demand for more and more realism. They added Inflight Refueling, realistic flight dynamics (including spin and departures), and a whole bunch of switches and what not that a lot of people didnt want to have to memorize just to play a video game and blow something up. I remember when I first started playing Janes F-15E, I probably spent a good week just flying over practice bombing ranges learning how to implement all the weapons on the plane and not crash into the ground doing it. I dont have that kind of patients or free time anymore. Now I stick with the space combat sims, where all I need to know is wheres the throttle, how do I select bad guys, and how do I dump energy from shields to weapons and vice versa.
 
Well to this date the most realistic game is Falcon 4.0. It has everything! You can even do a full ramp start up. All sorts of missions such as CAS, sead strikes/escorts/recon. You name it. Check it out.
 
Lonestar155 said:
Well to this date the most realistic game is Falcon 4.0. It has everything! You can even do a full ramp start up. All sorts of missions such as CAS, sead strikes/escorts/recon. You name it. Check it out.
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Oh boy! Ground ops! :D

Brett
 
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