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Have been recently playing around with my Galaksija (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaksija for more info) that I built and saw a flight simulator called 'Night Pilot'. So, I loaded it up and gave it a go....

Well, you can certainly see where it got it's name from!


Well, seems you can fly around Yugoslavia using only 6kb of RAM!


So how would you land? The whole 'night' part fixes that!


And of course, the fateful crash...

Well, the game itself isn't too bad for a computer from '84!
I might play around with it some more, but I wanted the good people of Simviation to see 'Night Pilot' firsthand!

Zooloo99 signing off!

JAGGIES!!!!1!!11!!!!111!

Haha! Nice!

...using the lovely old 8-bit Zilog Z80 3.5 MHz Micro Processor, which I spent many happy hours in the 1980's programming my 48K Sinclair Spectrum (Timex), in Machine Code Language....and Sinclair BASIC...

...and still do!......!

Paul...with a house full of 8/16 bit Computers, and their software and hardware!... ...!

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/

Nice. Reminds me of my first computer. Found the specs again thanks to a link in the wiki page you mentioned.

Golden oldie...

Crash

My first computer was a Leading Edge Model D. It had two half-height 360Kb floppies, a 13-inch green monochrome monitor, 256Kb of RAM which I upgraded to 640Kb at great expense and a screamin' 4.77MHz 8088 chip. No speakers. No mouse. I had one software for it-- a 96Kb word-processor called EasyWriter II. I got the computer in late October of 1985 (22nd or 23rd, if I remember correctly) and used it all through college and all the way until mid-December of 1995. I used it for writing letters and reports, et cetera for my schoolwork. I never knew there was much more to do with a computer until I got the second one in 1995. That one had Windows 3.1 on it. I discovered computer games. I had US Navy Fighters and some other thing having to do with three sims sold as a boxed package, one of which was a Pitts S1 and had the scenery for a place not too far from where I lived. My second computer had a 486 DX4-100, a 636Mb hard-drive, a 14-inch color monitor, a 3.5-inch floppy, a 14Kb modem and 4Mb of RAM. I later upgraded that to 16Mb-- at great expense. After about six months of using it, I upgraded that 14Kb modem to a 28.8Kb-- again, at great expense. I remember the 28.8 cost $129 plus tax. What's a modem now-- about ten bucks? We have come so far so fast...

We have come so far so fast...

Not really. The first homecomputers had what? 64Kb RAM? Now they have 4Gb (mine has)? And still we complain they are to slow...

Crash

How many times bigger than 64Kb is 4Gb? Quite a bit. If we had to store all that on 3.5-inch floppies, we'd need several 53-foot semi-trailers to store FSX, a few sceneries and a few airplanes with VCs. The price of storage is so low compared to how much we can store, it's almost free. I see ads on newegg for 1Tb drives going for less than a hundred bucks. I see 500Gb drives going for fifty bucks. Back in 1986, I saw an ad for something called a HardCard. It was a 1Mb (might have been 1Gb, but I don't remember) hard-drive going for five hundred bucks. A 1Gb thumbdrive (1000X the 1Mb Hardcard) today is ten to twelve bucks at Walmart. That would make the thumbdrive $500,000 in 1986. You know, it just might have cost that much back then- if you could have even bought one for that much money. Probably only available to Uncle Sam. National security concerns, you know...

I remember Winging it. Its abt 3/4 the way down. It requires TAPE or disk drive