April 13, 201214 yr What reminded you of this? We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
April 13, 201214 yr I remember all of those very well. you could probably still play CYAC through an emulator. www.stratoart.com Fine Art by Dale Jackson "Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings..." High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
April 13, 201214 yr Author You are correct, one of my favorite movies. Goes well with the Pearl Harbor theme. Check it out, very well done, great F-14 and Zero action. Very deep implications if you think about it. I have my own copy and pull it out at least twice a year.
April 13, 201214 yr I remember fondly the original Chuck Yeager flight simulator (Flight Trainer?), in glorious two color CGA graphics. Came in an envelope rather than a box. Some of the most fun I ever had with a flight sim. If you didn't lower the flaps on the SR-71, you'd shred the tires on the takeoff roll. As I recall, these aircraft didn't have cockpits, but it's been a while and I've slept since then. I tried loading Chuck Yeager's Air Combat a few years ago and couldn't believe how bad the graphics were... and how much I enjoyed the game when it was new. SWOTL allowed me to fly the rocket powered Me-163, which a friend of mine introduced me to when I was 12, with a great book from the library on the development of the plane. I did my 8 minute run once, brought down a couple of bombers, then glided back to the field and just sat and watched. My wingman came in for a landing, bounced off the far end of the runway and crashed... and blew up. Fun moments in early flight simming. Hook Larry Hookins Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of EarthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
April 13, 201214 yr SWOTL allowed me to fly the rocket powered Me-163, which a friend of mine introduced me to when I was 12, with a great book from the library on the development of the plane. I did my 8 minute run once, brought down a couple of bombers, then glided back to the field and just sat and watched. My wingman came in for a landing, bounced off the far end of the runway and crashed... and blew up. Fun moments in early flight simming. Hook Usually the 'blow up in a huge ball of fire if you stray so much as an inch off the runway' thing early flight sims had is not that realistic, but in the case of the Me-163 it's quite appropriate. Any fuel left in the tanks on landing did have a nasty habit of exploding if you set it down a bit roughly. John-Alan Pascoe
April 13, 201214 yr Whow! I really liked CYAC and SWOTL ... Great to remember :-) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
April 13, 201214 yr 'Tales of the Gold Monkey' - I've been in love with the Grumman Goose ever since that show. Which reminds me, I've got all the episodes on a hard drive somewhere. Bugger, thats my day gone then.
April 13, 201214 yr I had CYAC, got it from someone I worked with who was into aviation. It was from there that I moved on to FS-5.1, and onward. It was great, especially if you set unlimited ammo and just went blasting away!
April 13, 201214 yr In SWOTL my favorite plane was the GO-229. Man, that thing could really rip up the bombers... Anyone remember "F/A-18 Interceptor" for the Amiga, with the missions off San Francisco?
April 13, 201214 yr god it only seems like yesterday.loved chuck yeager and interceptor.spent countless hours on both. don't remember tweaking my computer to play them wasn't interceptor one of the first to have really good carrier ops?? i know it was along time ago cos i had long hair steve-0 REX SKYFORCE 3D steve howlett
April 13, 201214 yr Anyone remember "F/A-18 Interceptor" for the Amiga, with the missions off San Francisco? Yes! That was my first flight simulator for the family Amiga 500 we had. I still remember the first time I successfully landed in that game. Brings bad good memories.
April 13, 201214 yr wasn't interceptor one of the first to have really good carrier ops?? No, but I remember the one you're talking about. It was a 90's sim. I still have it somewhere. I think the CD case was a bright red. I'll look for it later. It had the best carrier ops ever simulated when it came out. The main simularity is that it was also an F/A-18 sim.
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