Sub Logic Flight Simulator

[fos]

Anyone other than me old enough to remember Sub Logic's Fliight Simulator FS1?

It ran on a TRS-80 Model 1 or Model 4 and was supplied on an audio cassette. It took several minutes to load and frequently took more than one attempt. It was way cool for the time - late seventies.

Sub Logic was taken over by Sierra. The original designer, Bruch Artwick, split off and formed BAO, Ltd. developing later version os FS. It was ultimately sold to Microsoft.

You can read the story at: http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsh/versions.htm
(Take a look at some of the early screen shots.)

Jeff

[jml]

I remember that game! While I didn't get in on the original release of FS1, I did get a copy of SubLogic's Flight Simulator 2 which I ran on my then hot new computer. An Apple IIc with a whopping 128K of ram and a 128K floppy drive, (couldn't afford a hard drive back then). It was a great game, and on the Apple IIc, it was in color. So complicated to operate, I spent most of my time crashing, the plane, not the computer. :D Later I did get a freeware port of FS1 which did run on my Apple. Now you have me thinking, I've still got an Apple IIe in my basement, with a little bit of searching,, I just might be able to find those discs.....

Joe

[fos]

Hi Joe,

That Apple IIe must be a collector's item. I see them every once in a while at ham fests but the prices are going up.

I still have a bunch of boxes with old software out in the garage. I don't think FS1 made it this far. Even if it did, I haven't had a TRS-80 in a long time, espically the one with the cassette storage.

Has anyone tried Flight Gear on Linux?

I have a pretty puny system here. It runs but not very well.

[jml]

I've tried it on several of my laptops. Does not work well at all on units with "integrated graphics" mother boards. I've tried it on my Thinkpad with an ATI graphics card (32 megs vram) and it seems to run ok, very reminiscent of Flight simulator on the MS-DOS platform. Controls are equally complex, so I have not been able to spend much time learning it.

Joe

[node357]

For some reason I never got into that flight sim, or any of them, but I used to like peeking in on my Dad flying around for literally hours in real-time sims with that very one on the CoCo.