How Long Have You Been Using MSFS?

[BMagann 11]

FS2 on the C64 in 1984. I had that thing on pre-order for the longest time. When the software store called to say it was in I set a speed record getting there. 

 

I bought whatever version of FS was available for IBM when I got my first PC in 1987.

[willym 4]

Configured my system as a dual boot with '98 and '02 running on the XP partition just for fun

[wrberg12 3]

1982 or 1983 for me. Ran the program on an IBM PC, Jr.

[fppilot 4,381]

The original version, which I purchased in early to mid 1982.  I had to hold off the purchase since after spending the $$$ for an original IBM PC I first had to recover from the purchase of "Easywriter", the only word processing program available for the IBM PC at that time.  I forgot how much that original MSFS cost me, but will never forget the $695 price for Easywriter.  It had no competition at the time and we all know how much lack of competition can cost us.....

 

Anyone remember VisiCalc?

[KingGhidorah 209]

My goodness, I guess I'm coming up close on the 30 year club myself.  I had a copy of FS1 for Apple in 1984, which I must have obtained from some kid at school (possibly in exchange for Choplifter, if memory serves).  I thought it was lame, but I was interested in it enough that when I saw Sublogic FS2 at a store, I asked for it as a Christmas present, and got it. 

[fppilot 4,381]

 

 

Ran the program on an IBM PC, Jr.

 

The "Erector Set" PC.  The PC Jr just snapped all together.....  Pretty incredible at the time.

I saw this video yesterday and it shows the sims I used.
 

Did you spend much time over the square battlefield in the Sopwith?

[JRBarrett 3,080]

Sublogic FS on the C64, circa 1985. I recall that it only covered 4 limited geographic areas in the US, and there were only a couple of ILS approaches available in each.

 

My favorite flight was to take off from Meigs, make a left turn southbound direct Joliet VOR, then direct Roberts VOR, then to CMI to shoot the ILS 32 at Willard Field.

 

My favorite sim of that era (early 90s) was Flight Assignment ATP... Coverage of the whole US, all the VORS and major airports, even mountains! Joined my first VA, which ran on Compuserve. Fun times!

[KingGhidorah 209]

When I watch videos of some of these ancient versions of MSFS or several other simulators from days gone by, I just don't understand how I could have been so captivated by them as I remember being.  I shake my head now, I just don't know what I saw in them in light of the current capabilities.

[JRBarrett 3,080]

When I watch videos of some of these ancient versions of MSFS or several other simulators from days gone by, I just don't understand how I could have been so captivated by them as I remember being. I shake my head now, I just don't know what I saw in them in light of the current capabilities.

I know what you mean. But, at the time, those sims were on the cutting edge of what was "state of the art" in computers of the day. I'm sure none of us back then could have predicted the advances in graphics and CPU power we have today.

 

And, 15 years from now, when we're all running flight sims using full 360 degree surround Occulus Rift style VR systems, sitting in chairs equipped with 3-axis hydraulics to emulate acceleration forces, we'll look back at the primitive sims of 2013, and wonder how we ever found them so captivating!

[N2056 33]

I've been at this from day one flying the snot out of subLOGIC's Flight Simulator 1 on an Apple IIe circa 1980.

 

[tamascy 2]

Since FS2000

 

 

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[Jim Robinson 122]

Relative newcomer, FS2002.

[carrotroot 77]

I've been playing Flight Simulator on and off since around 1990. The first version which I played was Sublogic's Flight Simulator II on a Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 3 which I bought for around $10. The only thing I remember now was that it came with a really nice manual.

 

I would later get FS98, 2002, 2004, and FSX. Although I now fly X-Plane, I did have a lot of fun with 2004. It ran very well out the box on the modest computer hardware I owned at the time. 

[N60JBravo 27]

FS3, I think, on an 8086 that ran at a whopping 4MHz and had a 20 MB hard drive.

 

And cost something like $1200 US.

 

Those were the days.

 

regards,

Joe