A little Fall cleaning project uncovered the instruction manual for Flight Simulator, a game that kept me occupied for hours many years ago. And I mean many years ago, like mid 80s, in the early days of desk top computering.
Check out the minimum computer requirement -- a PC, PC Jr., or PC XT with at least 128kb memory. It was even better if you had a color monitor. Those were the days when floppy disks really were floppy.
Microsoft has put out newer versions of the software, but the next version I got was Combat Flight Simulator which dispensed with all the real life flying simulation and sent you back to a WWII dogfight in the European theater. So the ace is up there in his P51minding his own business, and dead ahead is a pack of nasty Nazi Luftwaffe planes coming straight at him. Lock and load!
Hey, while we're talking about WWII warbirds, the CAF Airsho is coming up on October 9 & 10, 2010.
While playing with Microsoft Flight Simulator, you should have played with Sierra's Pro Pilot 98 and 99. Both had better graphics, including fog, which was missing from FS. Pro Pilot also had Midland's tall buildings. Pro Pilot also did not need a computer as powerful as the Microsoft Flight Simulator required. Alas, Pro Pilot got beat by the horde of Flight Simulator fans.
Posted by: Sky King | September 19, 2010 at 09:17 PM
I didn't know that. Thanks, Sky King.
Posted by: Geo | September 20, 2010 at 06:10 AM