I've been on your site and seen the various clips.
Beautiful, it's the first word that comes to mind.
Having long lost the diskettes of FS5 and FS4 to the injuries of time on magnetic supports, I am now able to remember more clearly thanks to your work. To remember, and quite in spite of myself, to cringe in horror and disbelief.
I'm well aware that the old good times were never so good.
If I try strongly I can recall, against the inner working of the mind that try to steer any and every memory as a good thing (removing the bad parts), that those times did not even feel good while they were being lived, even with no better standard to compare to at the time (of course I speak for myself).
But I still wonder at the simulators previous those I used, FS2 on C64 for example, as devoid of anything as you can get and slow too. About 1 FPS... :o ...nowadays a software like that would be unthinkable even as a freeware. Not that the other versions for other computers were that much better off.
Watching the videos on your site I had a vision of myself at the time of FS2 (at the time I owned a C64 like anyone else on the computer world, here in Italy. The advent of the Amiga first and the PC as game machines still far away in the future), younger and in possess of much less patience than nowadays (age gives you patience, if nothing else among the positive facts of life
) trying to get something out of that version of flight simulator... and throwing the diskette (or rather the audio-tape
ah, the wonders of old CBM computers) out of the window out of absolute frustration.
Just two white lines drawn on the virtual ground and a lot of imagination, with panels that were a jumble of hardly working lines as well (take the HSI of FS3 in the clips, for example). This was FS at the time. And nowadays we sometimes bitch at softwares that would have ANYONE at the time die of a coronary or sell their soul to eternal damnation to have it (with the hardware and OS to make it work), had they (I) seen it back then.
It's something that makes one wonder.
There's but one real cure for human stupidity. It's called DEATH.
At the moment mourning the assassination of sarcasm and irony for the good of the "higher".
Proud FSIX user. Active user of FS98, X-plane and novic