Underpowered computer

[AnonymousUser68]

Just thought this might be a laugh to all the people who have beasts of computers. When I started running xplane a few years ago I had a computer with 256MB of ram and a 1.25Ghz powerpc processor. From memory I think it had a 10" screen!

[Simmo W]

Just thought this might be a laugh to all the people who have beasts of computers. When I started running xplane a few years ago I had a computer with 256MB of ram and a 1.25Ghz powerpc processor. From memory I think it had a 10" screen!

Ha don't get the veterans started! I dimly remember my Commodore 64 that taught me BASIC programming, looking it up in wiki is scary, only 0.985mhz and 64KILO bytes of memory. Then I upgraded to the Commodore Amiga 500, I virtually bought it for this F18 game! It was expensive back then (1986 or so), about $600 then, had to delay my first car purchase. And we will be laughing at how crude XP10 is in a few yrs!

[AnonymousUser68]

I've had a go on a wire frame sim. It felt more realistic than FSX

[-TheoGregory]

Jesus himself would get pissed at my computer. I get spinning beach volley to initialize the type tool in photoshop. My computer actually makes a screaming noise when I import Goran's model's!

When I started with X-Plane, (v8.15 if memory recalls), with my PowerPC G5 1.8Ghz Dual with 1.25 GB of ram and my 64mb nVidia 5200FX.

Wasn't too bad in those days.

[clavel9]

I first ran X-Plane 5.32 on my 266 MHz "PDQ" PowerBook G3 in 1999-ish. I don't remember being that impressed at the time and only came back to X-Plane with v8.15. It's only relatively recently that I've had a laptop capable of running X-Plane comfortably.

The G3 perished when knocked onto a terrazzo floor in Malta in 2000.

[Jim Kallinen]

Now you guys make me feel old, had a Apple 2 clone by Franklin 1100 and ran Sublogics Flight Sim back in 1983.

Had a crappy NEC 10" monochrome monitor and it was all wire frame.  Got to start somewhere.  Sure hated those

5.25 floppy disk drives.

[scubajuan]

Sure hated those 5.25 floppy disk drives.

Yeap! when I got my first computer there was not such a thing as internal Hard Drive it was a Casio with 4 KB ram, I used a tape walkman to store my BASIC programs. then came my first HP Vectra with a 8086 processor and 16 KB ram(yes KILO BYTES) 40MB Hard Drive(40 MEGA BYTES in full size 3.5in internal Hard Drive) and color monitor, IT WAS A MONSTER BACK THEN

[steven winslow]

My first flight sim experience was with my 128k Mac in 1985 or whenever the first Microsoft Flight Simulator came out.  Or maybe it was a couple years later when I got my Mac Plus with 1mb of ram.  Just looked at the MSFS manual....1986.  Next came FLY! and finally X-Plane at version 7 something.  Nice going down memory lane........

[AADX]

~1984-1992, Apple IIe

F15 Strike Eagle

Sublogic Jet

Chuck Yegar's Advanced Flight Trainer(AFT)

~1992, Mac IIsi, Mac LCIII

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat

~1995, PowerComputing 120

Hornet 1.0-2.x

A-10 Attack!

X-Plane 2.5 through 3.5

~1999-01, PM 8600 & G3 PB

X-Plane 5.2 through 6.7

Hornet Korea

~2003, PM G4 MDD

X-Plane 7....

~2002, ironically, while doing irl PPL and IFR training, used old PB 1400c/133mhz with x-plane 2.75 to practice vor'nav, adf'ndb work, and cross country pilotage. flat poly and all.. it was a fantastic tool when used alongside irl training

and much past 2003.. is already known.   

all x-plane, 7, 8, 9.     only other flight games played are Ace Combat 4, 5, X, Zero.  for PS2 & PSP.

thinks if there's anything else in there i'm missing.. very very limited time in the waybck with msfs fs 1.x on an apple.  space flying games like wing commander but those don't count as flight sim.  ohohoh.. LOL

Sky Odessey, for PS2

that was just fun, non combat, just fun flying game.  able to practice some slow flight, rectangular course landing pattern, and ldg gear use.   was fun.

[Simmo W]

Good nostalgic links there Jason!

I now remember getting the Sublogic Flight Simulator II, the packaging and documentation was so slick back then. Meigs Field and chicago looked so awesome in vector graphics, at 5fps

[kiofka]

Gosh, now I have to think back...

It was a Mac SE, 16 mghz, w/20 mb hard drive, and 1 mb RAM, (somewhere around '85 or '86).  I remember my brother and I thinking that it couldn't get any better.  We were hooking our two platforms back to back and going one on one with Falcon 2.0.  What a rush that was.  I was also flying the Microsoft flight sim back then as well.

Yeah the F-18 Hornet was cool but then someone monkeyed with it and created the Nuclear capable Hornet. That was insane.

Loved those mushroom clouds!

Man, we're talkin' 25 years ago...  Can you imagine the flight sim in 25 more?

Like, wind comin' out of your computer monitor with the smell of AvGas... LOL

[Simmo W]

Good news, all this talk about old computers got me back onto the iTunes store to search for the elusive Commodore emulators and I found this!

http://c64.manomio.com/

So for a few dollars u get a portable high fidelity emulator of low fidelity gaming, and some free games to boot. They're working on the Amiga emulator.

The gameplay was so good- since the graphics and sound was soooo bad, but only due to the limited hardware of the time. 0.985 MHz, sheesh!