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Post by Bushpounder on Jul 12, 2015 16:20:46 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2015 19:04:11 GMT -5
Woweeee! Man, I remember most of that. Yeah, how things have changed, eh? Didn't take a lot to please us, but a lot of those aircraft would rival todays from a distance. And they were all free and when someone accomplished a breakthrough, they shared it with the entire community and everybody benefited. Not quite like that today. I guess you could argue that what we have today is light years better (in some respects/areas, anyway), but I do think we had more fun back then as you suggested. Thanks for this  . |
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Post by olderndirt on Jul 12, 2015 20:15:55 GMT -5
Wow - you two must be the Orville and Wilbur of Flight Sim.
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Post by Bushpounder on Jul 12, 2015 21:03:22 GMT -5
Close - for bush flying anyhow!
BP;)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2015 21:35:36 GMT -5
Small planes, low & slow, short flights and bush flying are my favorites in the sim.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2015 5:04:47 GMT -5
Wow - you two must be the Orville and Wilbur of Flight Sim. Fred and I consulted very frequently on the first Beaver. Flight dynamics weren't sophisticated enough to permit a very accurate rendering but he sure did a good job with what he had to work with. Another fellow (also a "Dave") and I got together and were making scenery more or less parallel to Don's work, which we discovered when I first met Don back in the very early days of Alaska by Don (Dave and I were working on Northern Ontario though). Dave didn't live all that far from me and he very generously had me over for dinner a few times which turned into bull sessions for doing scenery. I first started in this though back in the days of SubLOGIC when everything was wire frame. Yep, "Orville and Wilber, move over."   Take anyone back just a bit ? That was yesterday. THIS is today...  My how things have changed! |
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Post by Bushpounder on Jul 13, 2015 5:33:13 GMT -5
I had that! That's San Francisco! I thought that was GREAT! I ran it on an 8086 that had a whopping 30 meg HD! I paid 2 grand for that computer in 1989.
BP;)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2015 5:35:56 GMT -5
Everybody had it (that had that vintage ). You could only get certain default areas (San Fran, Martha's Vineyard, Chicago, I think London and I believe it was either Boston or New York. That was it. Nothing in between. Wow |
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Post by spud on Jul 13, 2015 7:20:42 GMT -5
Ahh ... memories! Both good and bad.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2015 12:12:42 GMT -5
I remember one adventure was landing on the George Washington bridge in New york city. Another was sitting down in Central Park. As a matter of fact, I have on my desk as we speak, a ring bound book titled " 40 More Great Flight Simulator Adventures " byCharles Gullick, the foreword in the book is by the creator of Flight Simulator, Bruce Artwick. --- so it says. I haven't opened this little book in years. Me thinks I'll have a go a one or two later today. I just noticed that there are a couple of ' adventures' flying in and out of Meggs field at Chicago. This little gem is copyrighted in 1986. Should be good for a chuckle Carm.
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Post by pivo11 on Jul 14, 2015 1:42:16 GMT -5
Sheeeesh, get out the rocking chairs! The boys are goin' to tell us about the olllld days! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2015 5:17:31 GMT -5
Ohhhhh yeahhhhhhhh......  |
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Post by spud on Jul 14, 2015 10:23:51 GMT -5
Sheeeesh, get out the rocking chairs! The boys are goin' to tell us about the olllld days! Well the chair is preferable to a stripper pole!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2015 10:28:39 GMT -5
AMEN! Those things hurt... errr, not that I would know...  |
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Post by olderndirt on Jul 14, 2015 19:56:53 GMT -5
I'm having this vision - stripper pole, spandex...who knows how it'll end?
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