1 hour ago, jon b said:

I had flight simulator 4.0 for the PC and a load of Amiga 500 flight sims all on those 3.5 inch disks.

I had Flight Simulator II for the APPLE II on cassette tape:

and then in 1983 the new and improved revolutionary single disk version:

Edited June 8, 2025Jun 8 by turbomax

On 6/7/2025 at 6:38 PM, ryanbatc said:

Haha another real world pilot that uses the same technique as me lol!  Ok sometimes I start on the ramp.

You can add me to that list as well

Starship is a real hype we hadn't have for some time! Hope it will be released next week!

I can't find my SubLogic FS-II books but they looked just like the pics above.  Maybe one day I'll find them in a box, because I know I had them before I moved.  I would have never tossed them.   I had the 5 1/2" floppy version circa 1985.

I did fly a Starship (2000A?) at some point, but I think as was said it was with an aircraft & scenery design add-on or something like that. EDIT:  It was FS4 as jon b notes.   Anyway,  I think this one will be a wee bit better all around.

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3 hours ago, Mace said:

I can't find my SubLogic FS-II books but they looked just like the pics above.

I couldn’t find mine either, and they were good books so ended up finding a good condition boxed FS2 on eBay. 

I wasn't initially that interested in this plane but I'm gonna buy it for the diskette stuff alone lol.

That and Omega navigation, for childhood nostalgia purposes (I lived several year on Reunion island, where one of the Omega antennas was located. It was a familiar sight.)

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14 hours ago, turbomax said:

I had Flight Simulator II for the APPLE II on cassette tape:

and then in 1983 the new and improved revolutionary single disk version:

Woozeeeeeeer! You nearly emerged with FS1. Great that you have hung on to everything. For whatever reason, I did keep all the packaging and boxes since FS5.1 (when I started in 1995). So many times, my wife on a cleaning and organizing adventure would say “why are you keeping these boxes, there is nothing in them”. I would pick them up and carefully store them away again.

But ya, the Starship is getting some good buzz. Kinda 50/50 right now waiting for the FFX C750 as well.

On 6/7/2025 at 5:58 PM, jon b said:

I’m going to get a good few hours just sat on the ramp with the GPU plugged in playing with things before even contemplating going flying.

This level of depth deserves to be treated with respect,exactly like learning a real aircraft, not just start on the runway engines running and blast off, which is my usual MO

Quite true. However, for every new airplane, I initially begin with it running from the runway. Knowing the aircraft is properly trimmed for T/O and when to rotate I put it in the air to judge the initial flight characteristics, level out and see how it trims up for a level cruise and then acquaint myself with the flight deck. After a bit of flight time, I explore the bird starting from cold and dark. 

15 hours ago, turbomax said:

I had Flight Simulator II for the APPLE II on cassette tape:

and then in 1983 the new and improved revolutionary single disk version:

Love it!, Pretty much the same beginning of this hobby for me, but with the Commodore 64 and Sublogic FS. The cassette -> diskette jump was huge! 🙂 Wish I had kept mine around.


 

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2 hours ago, The Flight Level said:

Woozeeeeeeer! You nearly emerged with FS1.

I did indeed begin with FS1 back in 1979: frame times and LOD, what? 🤣

 

"who would have thought 40 years ago ..."

 

Edited June 9, 2025Jun 9 by turbomax

This was my first -

 

 

 

It needs a cassete player. 

who would thought in 1995 that 30 year later one would be virtually inserting a floppy disk...

 

These tech preview are coming quick and fast!

Ok, I have seen enough, you can release ☺️