August 31, 201213 yr Ha! I loved this software so much! That Bruce Artwick interview was pretty good too. Thanks for the link, Daveo. I just remember the joy the early FS brought me. I played it anywhere I could get access to a computer, which was mostly in college in the 80's where there was a lab full of IBMs. I would sneak a couple floppys (8" of course) into the lab and when the professor was out we would load it up and fly around. It seemed to take forever to start up. (Not much changed there, eh?) Yeah, that keyboard really gave us full control of that plane alright. I couldn't get enough of it. When I could afford a computer of my own, I had a smokin' hot 286 proc with VGA graphics. That and the 14" monitor put me in a different place. My wife took pictures of me in my "cockpit" and it's funny to see me sitting there totally entranced on what was on the screen. She would try to talk to me and I would just grunt or say wait a minute, totally ignoring that she had entered the room. (I still do that. Why do wives always come in when we're on final?) What a hoot!
September 1, 201213 yr Author YES! It dont matter whats happens, you could sit there for 2 hours on a nice long flight, just as happy as a clam, and when you turn into your final approach, the wife shows up with the honeydo list, or the phone rings, or something happens. It never fails for me Does anyone remember the microsoft zone FS chat room? That was THE hangout for a lot of people
September 2, 201213 yr My tribute to the old days here in a new topic: http://forum.avsim.n...ir-zx-spectrum/ With kind regards, Bart S.
September 3, 201213 yr Well, this thread is for old times sake... I finished my education in 1983 (i am talking about education and not 'growing up') and my last year in college gave me a little taste of things to come. In that year we had a student among us and who we could call a 'geek' and he introduced us to the first personal computer and programming. It was all very rudimentary but I was hooked (and for life it seems). A few yaers later my employer gave us the chance of buying a PC (at a reduced price) as an invcentive for a job well done. I jumped to the occasion and bought my very first IBM (XT with a HD of 10MB) and only a few weeks later I found a copy of 'secret weapons of the Luftwaffe'. It was the sim that started the addiction and I have still got a copy safely stacked away today. Later on pc's evolved and the simulators evolved but that very first one... I can still get in a nostalgic mood over it. Luc Brusselmans Belgium
September 3, 201213 yr Author yes i remember secret weapons of the luftwaffe...Lucasarts published that if i remember right
September 3, 201213 yr the good ole days before the like's of the scam's of prologue, extended, paying for liveys and patches.............
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