10 years of Microsoft Flight Simming for me... How abou...

[jagabom 21]

I'am early 80's myself. I even typed in a 200 line simulator for my Amiga. Got it out of a magazine. No nothing just a couple instruments and a landing strip. It was neat though. It didn't have a pause feature so I had to program it to look for a certain keypress and then stop 3 timers.JimCYWG

[Guest atoepper]

VERY early 80's. Tape based Sublogic Flight Simulator on a Radio Shack TRS-80!If you want to beam yourself back to the "golden" days go to: http://www.simpit.de/fs1.htmlBe warned, it's not pretty.Regards, Andreas

[RobbieHe 0]

Compared to someone whose been simming since 1981, I am a beginner!RH

[drayton_k 7]

Myself, I had the Sublogic Disk version for I think my old ATARI ST back in the early 80's. Somewhere I still have the disks and an addon scenery disk also.I have bought every FS version since, and still enjoy using FS2004 every day I can.Drayton

[maxter 0]

Chris,didn't your PC have that 'TURBO switch' to run it at 8Mhz?CheersThomasJeez, now that you mention it, yes it did indeed. Thanks, wow that brings back some memories :-)Cheers,Chris Porter:-outtaPerthWestern Australia

[Cloud9 0]

Man, it sure was fun reading the replies to this thread! Brought back memories of when I was a kid (still am, just much taller and heavier - :-)). I fell in love with flight simulation in 1984 when my dad purchased version 2 for the IBM PC (SubLogic); it supported 8-bit color and sound. At school, I had a copy of FS on an Apple IIe (wire-framed version).I also had FS4, FS 5.1, FS95, FS98, FS2000, and FS2002. I enjoy FS2004 but am looking forward to FS10!David

[Guest apwright]

I remember that Sublogic's FS II cost 40 pounds in the UK back in 1984 - when a pint of beer was about 70p IIRC. The beer's gone up threefold since then, but FS has remained about the same. How's that for value!!AdrianLGTS

[Guest frosor]

Fun thread that made me thinking.And look what I found between the diskettes with MS-DOS 5 and "Tornado": MSFS 5.0. Anybody who know when that came out? must hav been -92 or -93 I think, not long after I got my super-duper 386-40 with 4mb memory and a huge HD on about 120 mb ;-)... Those where the days...Frode

[bkeske 0]

Wow...you know, I find it quite amazing how many folks have been using FS in some form or fashion for 10+ years...and are still involved!Great stuff......or else we have no lives ;)

[American 833 Heavy 132]

My first Flight Sim was FS95. I've been flight simming since the late 90s. :)

[Guest flight78]

Started with FS98 got hooked ever since.Kind regards:Alexander

[RobbieHe 0]

You are welcome!RH

[Guest Jimbofly]

I started in 1989 with FS3. So that would make it about 16 years!Man I'm getting old :(James

[RobbieHe 0]

I had seen what I believe to be FS4.0 on a friends computer in early 1992. He had a 486, which was way out of my price range at the time. So, FS 4.0 was my first actual exposure to Microsoft Flight Simulation. This same guy, then showed be a copy of FS5. It seemed day and night in terms of realism from FS4.0. I think it was 1994 when I saw the FS5. I did not actually buy a copy until FS5.1 came out in 1995.RH

[RobbieHe 0]

That is a great site!RH