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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby Ivan » Fri Aug 15, 2003 2:19 pm

Well let's see. These are the ones I used most frequently over the years.

FS Unknown mid 80s version (Mac LCIII Moterola 25mhz processor, before vid cards came out, my palm pilot has more computing power)
Tie Fighter (Moterola Starmax Mac clone, 200mhz)
Warbirds (PII 233mhz with no video card)
X-Wing (PII 233Mhz, no card)
CFS1 (PII 233mhz no video card)
XWing vs Tie Fighter (PII 233mhz, ATI Radeon PCI 32mb)
XWing Alliance (PII 233mhz, ATI Radeon PCI 32mb)
FS2002 (Duron 950, Geforce2 MX400)
CFS2 (Same system as FS2k2)
CFS3 (Duron 950, Geforce FX5200)
FS2004 (Duron 950, GF FX5200)

Oh i forgot my X-Wing and TIE which managed to wreck 3 joysticks before i got my first decent one
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby HawkerTempest5 » Fri Aug 15, 2003 2:27 pm

First Flight Sim I ever played was F-19 Stealth Fighter but I can't remember what machine it was for, Commador 64 or Amega. It belonged to a pal of mine and I remember flying a raid on Iraq one night only to get home and turn on the TV to see that Gulf War One had just started! I flew the first raid about an hour before the war started ;)

Since then I've had:
FS98
F-22 ADF
CFS2
Mig Ally
B-17
FS2K2
CFS3

Of that lot I still play CFS2 and FS2K2. All the rest have been removed now and cosigned to my collection of vintage flight sims in a dark draw in the spare room!
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby KJones » Fri Aug 15, 2003 4:37 pm

Here are the ones I remember, but I'm sure there were others:

Solo Flight (C64)
F-15 Strike Eagle (C64)
Jump Jet (PC)
FS2002
CFS3
FS2004

I still have "Jump Jet". As I'm sure you have guessed, it's a Harrier sim. Here are the system requirements:

IBM 286 (16+ MHz), 386, 486, and compatibles
1MB RAM, DOS 5.0, and a hard disk required
Supports VGA/MCGA only
Joystick and mouse required
Supports IBM, Ad Lib, Roland, and Sound Blaster

I had to jump through hoops to get the game to run... it required a special boot disk with it's own autoexec.bat and config.sys files... getting FS2004 to run was a breeze in comparison.  ;D
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby WebbPA » Fri Aug 15, 2003 7:06 pm

Please read the question, What was your FIRST Flight Sim and platform?.   You're not in a bar bragging about your conquests.
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby KJones » Fri Aug 15, 2003 7:28 pm

Sheesh.  ???

Ok. My FIRST flight sim was Solo Flight for the Commodore 64.

Forget all of that other crap I wrote.  I'm sorry to have wasted your time. ::)
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby packercolinl » Sat Aug 16, 2003 5:42 am

FS2002!!  THIS IS IT!! I honestly could not,after doing some real flying,contemplate using a FS until I saw FS2002.
I was given a computer and FS by my brother and have upgraded from there. Nice having well to do brothers who like to look after their youngers. :)
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby Fozzer » Sat Aug 16, 2003 7:52 am

Gunship. 1984, On the Sinclair Spectrum 48k*...FANTASTIC FUN... 8)...!
I still play it now using the Spectrum Emulator...

http://www.spectaculator.com

...and it's still just as much fun.. ;D...!

Cheers all...!
Paul....Spectrum enthusiast extraordinaire... ;D...!
(England).

P.S. ..the Commodore C64 version was not too bad as well.... ;)... ;)... ;)...!
LOL...LOL...LOL...!

P.P.S. *I still have the computers, software, and all the hardware, manuals, magazines, etc, ...joyfulness... ;D...!
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby packercolinl » Sat Aug 16, 2003 8:09 am

Looks like I missed out! All those years I've been riding motorcycles I could have had flightsim as well!

D#@MN!! :)
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby KJones » Sat Aug 16, 2003 9:25 am

Becareful not to stray from the original topic or you might make WebbPA angry.  ::)
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby flyboy 28 » Sat Aug 16, 2003 10:06 am

Boy. I still remember that we used to have an Atari. We had one game called Commanche. It was one of those that the scenery went by while you shoot. Then about 4 or 5 years ago, we sold the system and the games for 3 bucks. Now, we problibly could sell it for $300.  :-/
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby WebbPA » Sat Aug 16, 2003 11:49 am

If it's just going to be a free for all:

Flight Simulator II for Commodore 64
IFR Flight Simulator for Commodore 64
Super Huey for Commodore 64
F-15 Strike Eagle II for C-64 and PC
Jane's F-15
Comamche 4
CFS 2 and 3
IL-2 Sturmovik
Flight Simulator 2000, 2002, 2004
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby 4_Series_Scania » Sat Aug 16, 2003 2:24 pm

Ahh fond memories of this "beauty"  :-/

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Ahh those days of 1k RAM with an optional 16k "RAM Pack" ::)

http://simflight.com/~fshistory/fsh/start.htm - Worth a look if retro is your thing ;)
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby Jester » Sat Aug 16, 2003 4:21 pm

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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby Ivan » Sat Aug 16, 2003 4:24 pm

that page hasn't been updated for ages...

And remember, to fly you need a 286 (proven by Airbus), anything with more power will give eyecandy.
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby ATI_7500 » Sat Aug 16, 2003 7:08 pm

Top Gun : Fire at Will.
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