1 hour ago, OldFlyboy said:

I'm with Vic....lets enjoy.

Obviously, most of you don't remember, or never saw  FLIGHT SIMULATOR on an Apple 2C flying from Meigs on a green screen.

One can appreciate the progress that's been made while also pressing today's add-on publishers to release complete products.

Alex

To be honest, I kinda do miss the "good old days". There are times when I wish that I could forget about all of the technological advances that have been made over the past thirty-five years, and just enjoy flying over a simple shaded polygon lake, or landing on a long, narrow, isolated rectangle.......with cardboard cut out mountains in the background. Yeah, I miss those days

Edited December 27, 20187 yr by Christopher Low

3 hours ago, OldFlyboy said:

I'm with Vic....lets enjoy.

Obviously, most of you don't remember, or never saw  FLIGHT SIMULATOR on an Apple 2C flying from Meigs on a green screen.

I had an Apple II GS....

Remember the 'framerate'? Click, click, click...☺️

24 minutes ago, newtie said:

I had an Apple II GS....

Remember the 'framerate'? Click, click, click...☺️

I ran SubLogic's flight simulator II on a Commodore 64, I don't miss those good old days, but it does serve to illustrate just how far we've come in the flight simulator world...

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Flight_Simulator_II

Just imagine for a moment how spectacularly antiquated our current "cutting edge" P3D v4 (and beyond) will look in 30+ years..??

And those C64's are (sort of) "collectors items" now... lol

 

1 hour ago, SunDevil56 said:

Just imagine for a moment how spectacularly antiquated our current "cutting edge" P3D v4 (and beyond) will look in 30+ years..??

And those C64's are (sort of) "collectors items" now... lol

 

I wonder if the next 30 years will advance as much as it has since the 80's.  

You know we had half-finished software back in the 1980's and 90's too.  And quite frankly, sometimes it did not work either (Frontier: First Encounters, I'm looking at you).  At least UTL works.

Well those good ole days weren't too bad, I had less bills to pay and less responsibilities. (not too sure I wish to see shaded polygons again, lol.)  

6 hours ago, Mace said:

I wonder if the next 30 years will advance as much as it has since the 80's.  

 

If I was a betting man I would say it's a virtual certainty, barring some kind of global calamity "end of days" scenario, I feel relatively confident that technology will march onward's to ever greater heights.

Of course there will always be those that will complain that...

"Hey, the green Subaru rental car I was driving that day didn't appear in the correct parking spot it should have been in the Mega Super Live Traffic add on I bought, it was 2 parking spots off at my reserved employee parking lot at EGLL.... 😏

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"Hey, the green Subaru rental car I was driving that day didn't appear in the correct parking spot it should have been in the Mega Super Live Traffic add on I bought, it was 2 parking spots off at my reserved employee parking lot at EGLL.... 😏

......followed by a social media crucifixion of the developer on "Facebook Ultra" and "DonaldTrumpsTwitter.com"

We should just talk about the geo-political-religious aspects of Ultimate Traffic Live. That will fill this topic up, and "moving on" will have a more complete meaning.😂

For me reasonable and unobstructed ai movements on apron and taxiways would be much more important than that every rw airplane finds its counterpart in the sim.

Edited December 28, 20187 yr by Nemo

First empressions after installing the update.... Its not winter schedules its summer. 

You've got summer holiday charters going to DBV and the Virgin Manchester To Las Vegas doesnt op in the winter on a Thurs 

it's not winter 2018 lads I'm afraid it's old summer 2018 schedules which they have released in winter 2018

Edited January 2, 20197 yr by tooting

On 12/27/2018 at 3:54 PM, DrumsArt said:

Yes, me too! And I still have my 48k Spectrum and my many cassettes including the Psion Flight Simulator...

Richard

Lucky you. I had the Sinclair ZX81 at that time (1982). But still have my C64 with FS2! (1986 I think).

On 12/28/2018 at 4:29 AM, SunDevil56 said:

I ran SubLogic's flight simulator II on a Commodore 64, I don't miss those good old days, but it does serve to illustrate just how far we've come in the flight simulator world...

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Flight_Simulator_II

Just imagine for a moment how spectacularly antiquated our current "cutting edge" P3D v4 (and beyond) will look in 30+ years..??

And those C64's are (sort of) "collectors items" now... lol

 

I have a working C64 (and C128). Bought an unopened copy of Sublogic Flight Simulator the other day, along with an unused joystick. Looking forward to taking her for a fly. 😊

1 hour ago, OzWhitey said:

I have a working C64 (and C128). Bought an unopened copy of Sublogic Flight Simulator the other day, along with an unused joystick. Looking forward to taking her for a fly. 😊

Well, hold on to your seat..!! lol

Actually it will probably be a lot of fun, a real "blast from the past"...😎

I remember how excited I was when I got my C64, it was kind of "groundbreaking" at the time... ie. a PC for the masses that many people could afford.

I had great fun with that thing, and it kindled a lifelong passion for flight simulation specifically, and computers in general.

On 12/24/2018 at 8:30 PM, duckbilled said:

Agreed.

I have been playing with the AIG AI manager for the past week or so. I really like it, but since it is in beta, it still has a lot of bugs. I have installed most of the traffic available in the AI Manager and limited out the relevant traffic from UTL. Now, considering the UTL update and the bugs with the AI manager, I'm going to continue to install the repaints available in the manager (that part seems to work well), remove the traffic BGLs from P3D, remove the limits in UTL and assign the paints to UTL plans.

Once the AI Manager is fully baked, I'll probably use a combo of the two. The AI manager's ability to install paints is nothing short of awesome!

UTL was a good approach, but I´m totally disappointed with the poor service. That´s a company with money and not a single developer who offers freeware...all the disapointed customers had to pay much for a very incomplete product and with the huge amount of missing liveries that just stopped continuing. There´s not even a new (and invisibel) flightplan helping against such a lack.

I now use AI Manager 0.8.2.11 for replacing old against modern style (American Airlines f.e. looks terrible old) and find the AIG fleets much better and more modern as the age-old stuff in UTL ...