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I was just thinking about years ago when a cool flight sim was called "Jet Fighter" and "Jet Fighter II".  I played it on my father's 286 and 386 and 486DX with a massive 8MB HDD!

 

I just added Sky MAXX Pro to my X-Plane 10 and was amazed at the difference.

 

-Andy

 

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or Top Gun for the original Nintendo?

 

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My first intro to flight sims goes back to 1983 with my old Apple2 clone Franklin 1100. Had micropose Flight sim2 on an older

monchrome monitor with green fireframe planes and buildings.

 

Now, with the advent advanced smartphones. 8mb are considered small. Have been looking at the Nokia Lumia 1020 with a 41megapixal camera built in.
Would buy it just for camera but has all kinds other useful features to. Just don`t care for the AT&T only cell service.

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I started with Sublogic Flight Simulator 1 on the TRS-80. Spend many hours flying around a world of about 5 miles by 5 miles with NO scenery (and of course, no colour at all). I could even be over-estimating the size of the world. I loaded it off a cassette tape. And I think I have had every single flight simulator since. A really good one that I spent a lot of time on was Flight Assignment: ATP. This one was really good as it was so reliable. It was also one of the first where you could actually fly a Heavy with procedures.

 

I spent a lot of time with the early MS FS variations (ending with FSX) but basically gave up as they were not reliable enough. I think the end came after something like a 5 hour flight from Singapore to Brisbane where FSX crashed. That sort of thing is devastating - all those hours of preparation, flying - only to just be cut off at the knees.

 

I am starting to get back into flying again with X-Plane 10, on the understanding that as a currently and actively developed product, it will be a lot more reliable.

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Nice memories indeed. I remember my first en route flight ever in FS2 from Los Angeles to San Francisco in the Learjet 35, at that time the LA and SFO sceneries were apart so there was a great green gap between them. I was a teenager back then and I was using an Atlas to do my navigation, didn't have a clue of what the heck was a VOR and the flight took a couple of hours, but when found the city it was an immense joy. That night I went to bed at 4 am and went to school like a zombie.

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