Micro prose were great, I've kept some of the manuals. The golden age of combat sims.
I began with the vic 20, wrote my own flight sim for that, it was not too bad for 3.5 kilobytes of useable memory!
I kind of think of a 286 as a "new" PC, they seemed very modern when they came out. Also had a 486, I remember showing my friend Gomez the Red Baron 'flight sim', he was a pretty good coder, his response was that "there's no way a computer should be able to do that!".
Also spent a lot of the time with f-19 by microprose, I remember telling my brother "look at that river down there, this is just like real life". He responded that it just looked like a line on a computer screen to him, i guess you needed better imagination for simming back in those days. [emoji4]
My first PC used for Flightsim.
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Micro prose were great, I've kept some of the manuals. The golden age of combat sims.
I began with the vic 20, wrote my own flight sim for that, it was not too bad for 3.5 kilobytes of useable memory!
I kind of think of a 286 as a "new" PC, they seemed very modern when they came out. Also had a 486, I remember showing my friend Gomez the Red Baron 'flight sim', he was a pretty good coder, his response was that "there's no way a computer should be able to do that!".
Also spent a lot of the time with f-19 by microprose, I remember telling my brother "look at that river down there, this is just like real life". He responded that it just looked like a line on a computer screen to him, i guess you needed better imagination for simming back in those days. [emoji4]
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