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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby Jared » Wed Apr 07, 2004 9:32 am

lol...the memories...:-)

I remember the chuck yeager one as well, never really got the hang of it since I didn't have a joystick..

Also had FS 4.0 and ran it on the old monochrome XT....
Square patches below for ground and a chea buzzing sound for the engine noise....
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby Tequila Sunrise » Wed Apr 07, 2004 9:50 am

ermmmmmm......
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby ATI_7500 » Wed Apr 07, 2004 12:45 pm

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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby Fozzer » Wed Apr 07, 2004 12:52 pm

Mine would have been Psion Flight Simulator on the ZX Spectrum 48k with rubber keyboard.
Alas Fozzer and myself still love these things, I still have a working 128k hard keyboard Speccie and a huge pile of tapes, including Elite for the 48k variant Kevin ;) Its still a great game :)

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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby Wing Nut » Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:13 pm

Yeah, it was a bitch when your auto-docking thingy went out.  Even with the wire frame graphics, it was cool though...

If the think the Commodore 128 is a blast from the past, how about this?  I used to have a Vic 20 also!  ;D
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby Smoke2much » Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:14 pm

Elite was the best game ever.  If I could find a way to make it work on this PC I would.  Oh well...
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby Wing Nut » Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:16 pm

I wonder if there's a C128 emulator out there somewhere.  :)
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby Fozzer » Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:37 pm

[quote]I wonder if there's a C128 emulator out there somewhere.
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby ozzy72 » Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:58 pm

Will if you download Spectaculator (as per Fozzers link) I'll send you Elite and a whole wad of other games, and I've got links for a load more!!!
The only one I haven't got and am still after is Psion Flight Simulator ironically. I have it on tape and can play it on my real Speccie, but I just can't stand sitting around waiting 5 mins for it to load!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby Fozzer » Wed Apr 07, 2004 2:25 pm

For the Commodore addicts...do a search for "Commodore Emulators"....there are lots of them for different models.... ;D...!

On the "Spectaculator" web site, on the right-hand side of the page, see...
World of Spectrum.
TZX Vault.
for all the games....seconds to download... 8)...!

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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby Wing Nut » Wed Apr 07, 2004 2:30 pm

Will if you download Spectaculator (as per Fozzers link) I'll send you Elite and a whole wad of other games, and I've got links for a load more!!!
The only one I haven't got and am still after is Psion Flight Simulator ironically. I have it on tape and can play it on my real Speccie, but I just can't stand sitting around waiting 5 mins for it to load!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mark ;)


Can I get in on that?  :)
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby ozzy72 » Wed Apr 07, 2004 2:37 pm

Sure thing Kevin, I'll email Elite in a few mins it'll be the 128k version ;)
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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby Fly2e » Wed Apr 07, 2004 2:43 pm

Does Asteroid by Atari count? ;)

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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby BFMF » Wed Apr 07, 2004 2:45 pm

For the Commodore addicts...do a search for "Commodore Emulators"....there are lots of them for different models.... ;D...!


I've tried one, but it's just not the same without the huge floppy disk drive and the little cassette drive that took hours to load a single game :'(

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Re: Your first flight sim

Postby Dan » Wed Apr 07, 2004 2:47 pm

Mine was CFS1... This was quite a weird intro to our hobby:- I was nine then and there was the option on my parents PC package: Star wars or the sim. I realy wanted star wars at the time, but I wouldn't buy it now, no way!
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