https://c64online.com/c64-games/flight-simulator-ii/

What first got me enamored with flying in general was when I was kid on a Boeing 727 Air Nepal flight to Kathmandu in 1982, and my dad got the pilots to let me come into the cabin just as they were close to Mt Everest... seeing all the Himalayas in all their glory while thousands of feet up in the air behind the windshield of a huge flying machine was bonkers amazing to the 11 year old me.  A few years later, I got my hands on Sublogic Flight Simulator II and would read that manual from cover to cover for days on end, and oh the times I had seeing the 3D wireframes moving on the Commodore 64 🙂 .. and that started off my flight sim journey.  I still act like a kid as a passenger on real-world flights (as I'm sure many of you do) looking and examining everything from the time I reach the gate to boarding to takeoff and beyond, especially on those long haul birds like the A380 or 777, nothing beats it. Very thankful for the state of technology these days that allows us to recreate flight in all its aspects on our computers.

Just happened to land on this website which lets you play various C64 games on their server-based emulator looks like. Thought I'd pass it along if any of you want to take a trip down memory lane.. it can be controlled via keyboard just like before while it displays in your browser.

Edited June 16, 20223 yr by lwt1971

They also have the Apple version out there too, I spend years on that version when I was early teens, but can't look at it now. We are too spoiled with 40 years of development it has become everything I imagined back then, so for me no going back

1 hour ago, Matthew Kane said:

They also have the Apple version out there too, I spend years on that version when I was early teens, but can't look at it now. We are too spoiled with 40 years of development it has become everything I imagined back then, so for me no going back

Right? All the imagining we did back then when flying these pioneering sims and now here we are in 2020, sometimes struggling to tell sim and reality apart when watching videos/photos :) What an amazing time to be alive, can only imagine what's in store for us as computing advances in the coming years.

Interesting to hear about the Apple version, will have to track that down... also trying to track down whatever community updated versions of Flight Unlimited I/II that can be played on modern Windows systems, again for nostalgia :)

And while at it, need to track down any interviews and recent interactions out there about both https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Artwick and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Blackley and what their thoughts are on the state of flight simming now.