when did you get ur first FS

[ilka]

i got mine at the age of 12  :)



from ilka

[ozzy72]

What has an ancient Mesopotamian city have to do with FS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur
And I was 11 and had Psion Flight Simulator on my ZX Spectrum

[BFMF]

I think I was six or seven when I started flying with Chuck Yeager's Flight Simulator, and Mig-29 Fulcrum for our old family 8088 computer.

As far as the MS series is concerned, I was nine when I first flew a MSFS. It may have been FS5, but I can't remember

[ilka]

[glow=yellow,2,300]What has an ancient Mesopotamian city have to do with FS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur [/glow]


what do you mean by that

[ozzy72]

when did you get ur first FS

[Ashar]

FS98 at around 13 years of age...

[Mushroom_Farmer]

actually got mine between 20-25, but there's no option to choose it. It was a bootleg copy of FS 3 in all it's 4-color glory. Mmmmm, pink mountains.  ;D

[Ashar]

actually got mine between 20-25, but there's no option to choose it. It was a bootleg copy of FS 3 in all it's 4-color glory. Mmmmm, pink mountains.  ;D

I remember when I thought the FS98 737 was the most realistic jet ever...How wrong I was

[Groundbound1]

My first was Flight Simulator II by SubLogic on an Atari XE home pc that I got for Christmas when I was a kid. AHHH 8bit! That was computing! Nice to see how far Simulators have come, but if I still had my old Atari, I'd still use it. (You never forget your first!)

[ozzy72]

I've still got my Speccie. Fozzer put me onto a great ZX emulator for PCs and I found Psion FS and played it the other day. Buzzing single channel sound, graphics more chunky than a 70's tank-top and game play that could only be called dire! The sad part is it still made me smile

[Wii]

hmmm....well...early 13 I do believe...it was FSX, how I thought the 747 was the coolest plane ever until...oh wait...IT STILL IS

[Mobius]

[glow=yellow,2,300]What has an ancient Mesopotamian city have to do with FS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur [/glow]

what do you mean by that

I studied Ur in one of my classes a few years ago.  Fascinating place, full of pots and grains and all kinds of technological advancements, or something like that.  Unfortunately, I never got Ur, or fortunately I guess, I don't know.

[Soames]

I was 12 when I got my first simulator.

It was on a NASCOM 1; a self build computer that consisted of a keyboard and some PCBs mounted on a piece of chipboard and displayed through an old black and white television that had to warm up before you saw anything.

The software was actually a programme listed in a hobbyist magazine. I knew that typing it in would take ages but the picture associated with the code prompted me to go for it.

For the next few hours I plugged away at the keyboard entering an endless stream of HEX/DEC code. Then, because there was no way of saving the data I keyed in, I had to bug check everything I entered, as a single error would cause the machine to crash and would require me to start again. It was painful, frustrating and slow but the picture in the magazine kept me going.

Eventually it was ready and with my heart pounding I set the programme to run, ready to learn the secrets of flight. On that day however, I learned another lesson. A lesson, never to trust printed media. The picture in the magazine was no more than an artists impression and the reality was that there were no graphics, just a row of text. The actual simulator was nothing more than a row of values that responded to inputs to other values.

Press the 'power + or -' key and the velocity would rise or fall. Press the 'elevator + or -' key and your vertical speed would rise or fall, fairly basic math calculated the commensurate effect on altitude but in short the goal was to reach altitude 0 with speed < 50.

On the plus side the type of plane you flew was limited only by your imagination.

[Mictheslik]

I would have been about 4 when I played F22 interceptor on the Sega Megadrive....awesome game

MSFS-wise it would have been FS95 about 8 years ago......(from a charity shop)

I've still got my Speccie.

I've got my dad's old speccie....love postman pat and duck hunter  8-)

I also enjoy Tea shop on the BBC....involved making cups of tea and trying to sell them to make the most profit....all text based mind you

.mic

[MWISimmer]

My (not so) little brother should still have my old Spectrum, along with all the old games. I never had a flight simulator on that, it was only when I got my first PC in 1999 aged 28 that I had FS5 and it played terribly.
I did have "Tornado Low Level" on the spectrum but wouldn't call it a simulator.