Where are you from exactly? I grew up in Blantyre :) Spent a couple of years in Kilwinning/Ayr as well :) Living in Kitchener, Ontario now though.

Both, every version in between, and some before on different platforms, like the C64. What a hobby. Dave Vega

I was born in Glasgow, but we moved around a lot. I lived in Rothsay for about 3 years, then we moved to Devonshire, then back to Glasgow, then to Girvan. We left Scotland in 1956 and settled in Montreal. I came to Ontario in 1956, and now live in Whitby, Ontario. I've been flightsimming for many years now. I guess I'm an addict.Ron

Hehe, I am in Whitby, Ontario also. I am a transplant from elsewhere too. Grew up and lived in The Bahamas most of my life. Although I have only been here a few years.Just to make this post applicable, I remember my first Flight Sim experience, version was FS3 I believe. Loved those hard to make out runways.[hr color=#000000][table border=0" width="98%" id="table1" height="2" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1][td width=500]Jason[br /]General Aviation Fan[br][/b]

Ya, I'm a C-64-boomer. Then C-128, Amiga 500, then 286, 386, 486, P1, II, III, and then AMD 2400, 3200, 4000 etc, etc, etc. Along with all those came the most current FS at the time. Man, I'm not sure if that is cool, or just plain sad.

my first FS was 98....boy am I a noob.Dupo

Hi neighbour! . . . and I, too am a 1985-vintage 386/16 XT Bruce Artwick fan from over the pond - and now living in Lindsay, Ontario! I still have the whole series, plus Fly, Fly II and Pro_Pilot. Landing a Cessna (the default and only) aircraft, with an amber panel on an amber runway was sure real at the time. We owned a hobby shop at the time, and myself and three customers (r/c flyers) stood around the store's point-of-sale XT running FS1 for hours. for days. . It was a blast!

Yea, I agree the box photo compared to the actual program is day and night. But I see this practice done even today with a few notible scenery titles. For shame.... ;)Since we are all reminiscing here what with the release of FSX, for those of you who haven't seen it I threw together a little video on the history of FS. It's probably now about a year old but you might get a chuckle out of it. Can be found in the library under "Flightsim History - A Video Snapshot".Also check out the website Flight Simulator History:http://www.simflight.com/users/fshistory/fsh/good site.ClutchProject 9 Dragons

At least you had colour! Check out my bad boy sim... Although check the FPS:-)

Gotta luv that shot! What version is that? I wonder if every version released was a step ahead of the hardware curve causing such a strain on systems. I came in on FS2002 and it knocked my system to it's knees until I went from a 4x to an 8x AGP card. Then again I have upgraded my complete system 3 times to keep up.You "old timers"... did you have to do the same for versions like FS4, FS5, FS98, etc?ClutchProject 9 Dragons

Hi Clutch,Not an MS title but this was Aviator for the BBC Micro (32K memory you know :9 ) Still got my machine in the attic, you have to load the game off cassette tape but you can now run an emulator on the pc to run these old games - if you really feel the need!I even got a mouse for it after a few years - bit pointless really as it was a text entry OS but there was a drawing package which you could use it with - but I didnt have a printer so still useless really!CheersMike

Haven't got the latest one yet

Haven't got any of the older versions of Flight Sim anymore, but I do still have this one:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/161501.jpgJim

I remember my stepdad had FS5 at work, and before I was old enough to look after myself, used to spend hours at work on his computer, flying from Merill C Meigs in my cessna.. I got out to Nebraska once, over all the hexagons at 10FPS! Think that was on a 133Mhz so I'm a bit of a Noob really, although at 8 was probably one of the younger starters with Flight Sim.. PPL - Algoa Flying Club (Port Elizabeth, South Africa)FS5, FS98, FS2000, FS2002, FS2004, FSX user :)

I remember on my Tandy 1000 flying one of the first MS flightsims, with a tandy joystick. That thing must have weighed 5 pounds, think it was solid metal. I flew around meigs and chicago for hours and hours, doing touch and go's - in my mind it was amazing, I might be shocked to see the way it looks compared to todays standard. Boy...I miss Meigs field, sad to see it is not there anymore....danon - -