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Re: FSX

Postby BFMF » Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:45 pm

Ahh, the commodore 64. Back in the day, I loved that system. Gotta miss those cassette drives though ;D

And the floppy disk drive you could get was about the size of the computer itself ::)

...And after using the commodore for a couple years, we somehow got an intel 8086 system, which we later upgraded to a 286...! :o 8)


Those were the days ;)
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Re: FSX

Postby Rocket_Bird » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:14 am

Yikes, its time to get a new computer!  When FSX comes out that is... Im still running an ole pentium 3 with a have decent vid card that can just barely hold its own with todays addons.

Sigh, like some of you, I spent like so much money on payware though, i sure hope they are compatible.  Sadly im afraid they will probably be outdated by even better payware when FSX hits...
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Re: FSX

Postby Katahu » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:24 am

My credit will build up high enough for a more powerful Dell by the time that sim comes around.

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Re: FSX

Postby JBaymore » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:43 am

If it does require Vista M$ is just trying to milk us for more money.


And this surprises you how?   ;D

Microsoft is a business.  Businesses exist to make money.  And the king of all money makers is Microsoft.

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Re: FSX

Postby Fly2e » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:53 am

[quote]Microsoft is a business.
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Re: FSX

Postby dcunning30 » Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:30 am

Regarding backward compatibility:

If the MS folks figures out a better way of doing things, that would render FS9 add-ons incompatible, what do they do?  Be chained to an old architecture to maintain backward compatibility, or do the new thing for a better experience?  I say, they should use the new method AND provide conversion utilities.

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Re: FSX

Postby CODY614 » Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:21 am

Commodore 64
210 kb Hard Drive
36" Sony Trinitron TV for moniter
100kb on board memory
not sure what kinda videocard?

Cody, I envy you. The Commodore 64 was my most favorite computer ever. My first flight simulator was for that computer. Then Solo flight. Awe man memories.


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Re: FSX

Postby JBaymore » Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:56 pm

Personally I'll have to get the hardware up to snuff before I buy the new version of the sim.  I really do not want to re-create my first year of frustration with fs9.  

But I know that I will buy it.   ;D

And my "hot tip" for FSX.................. totally ignore whatever "minimum specifications" that Microsoft puts on the box.   ;) ;D


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Re: FSX

Postby CODY614 » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:08 pm

I gotta admit.....I wished I could have really gone nut's with the video card.....but the 400 or 500 dollars for the top end was kinda hard to slip past my wife!
But I cannot belive the way FS9 runs now!....My old system got to be a slide show.
I dont' know how anybody else does it but I used to have mine built by a very good friend.....I watched and learned....found out where he bought his stuff.....And 'voila'....I built this last one myself!...Saves you bunch of money!
But you gotta do it.....even 1 year old stuff is too slow.Cuz the new stuff coming out is that good.
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