.....and decided to try it out for old times sake.Eeeek!!!!! Did we really think that was "as good as it gets"?!Microsoft have certainly brought it on in the years since.

I have to agree with you there. I did the same thing for other reasons late last year and a couldn't belive how crap it was.TonyDigital-Flight

I also bought a copy of Flight Unlimited 2 around the same time (still got it, together with the weighty manual) and then I thought that was the bees knees. I wonder if I'd still think that if I loaded that up again now?!!

Bet ya got good frame rates though LOL.

I reinstalled FS98 very briefly last year ....... never again :-eekhttp://album.atomic-systems.com/showPic.php/23664/banner.jpg

>>Bet ya got good frame rates though LOL.>I got about 70fps with everything maxed out. However, I had difficulty panning the view in vc mode. It seemed to go 20 times faster than in FS9! :-lol :-lolVictor

yep fs98 was the reason i upgraded to windows 95 since it would not run in dos lol!!!!!!!!!!!! Brian

Actually, I still have FS98 installed on my e-drive. Yes the scenery is lacking, the planes are octagonal, the engine sounds are terrible and what about the weather?- So why do I keep it? Well, now and then, it's fun to go back and see all those addons that were tops then and see how they measure up. Maddog, Fly the big one, Italy 98,etc.. The truth is that of course they don't come close to what we use today, but 767 pic found its roots in FS98 in v7 of Eric Ernst's 767 panel- an addon that is still an excellent addon for FS2k2. So I suppose its not the sim itself that still facinates me, but the pushing of those old limits which evolved into what we have now. Cheers! P.S. My son is almost 11 months old, when he is old enough to try whatever version of flightsim that will be, It'll be fun to show him what my first sim looked like:-)