My dad gave us his Flight Simulator 98 and Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro (circa late 1997, I believe). My son (8) has been trying to run it on our machines (varying ages, but figure average is a year 2002, P3 class machine, say ~500Mhz, 128M of RAM, mediocre graphics card, etc.)It crashes all the time - hard - machine just spontaneously reboots. I'm guessing it was never meant to be run on win 2k anyway.My question - what would be a good version (that's still sold, hopefully) of Flight Simulator to get him for Christmas? I'm afraid that 2004 would just bring the system to its knees. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Good call: FS 2004 would be frustrating. FS 2002, on the other hand, is still a very good program and should run pretty well. It's also still available -- a couple days ago, I saw they had it at Staples for under $25 US.

Thank you! Staples seems to have run out, but I found amazon.com has it for $18.