Classic British Flight Sim

Here is a 5 minute fight in my first sim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK-iIrIEOyc

SubLogics FS II for the Apple II. Generous use of imagination was required, but it was hours of fun back in the day.

Nigel²

Gunship 2000 on the Spectrum 128

Gunship 2000 was a belter on my 50mhz Pentium. I really thought I was the bee's knee's in those days

ATB
DaveB

I'm getting the same message from all of you

Like me, we were all impressed, nothing like that could even have been remotely even thought of and there we were.

I can't imagine anything not giving such untainted joy as those early days as we expect too much now and then we didn't expect anything

My first, River Raid on the Atari VCS

Then the likes of FA/18 Interceptor, Birds of Prey and Knights of the Sky on the Amiga.

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet -- I'm surprised! -- here's mine. (Although it was the cassette-tape version, not the ultra-futuristic (and probably ulta-expensive) floppy-disc one.)

David

Mine was a really bad affair for the ZX Spectrum but shortly followed by F18 for the Amiga, moving onto Tornado and A320 Airbus.

Mine was a helicopter sim/game on the old PCW8512. It was the Bees knees at that time until I got rich and could afford a real PC with 80MB of HD. My PC flight sim was ATP - I think that's what it was called - and a multi-aircraft sim fronted by Chuck Yeager.

From then on I seem to have been chasing the ultimate PC for the sims I had, culminating in the purchase of FS5 and the slow slide into addiction................ Pity me, I sit in this empty house, no furniture except a computer desk and comfy seat, my wife has given up and gone, my children have stopped calling, my neighbours avoid my jungle of a garden. But all is not lost, selling the furniture means I have a super fast PC capable of running FSX at a good rate and no-one complains that I am ignoring them -BLISS


Allan

If SWMBO sees this I'm dead meat...

No worries Allan, I'll try and see she won't get to read it...shall I send my account number and paying in details via PM??

I didn't realise you could actually GET games for the 8512 Allan Can't remember there being anything available for the newer/smaller PCW9256 I had I bought a ram pack for mine which almost equalled the debt of a small African nation and gave me an additional 1mb.. an essential tool required to do the desktop publishing I did for the pub I sold it on eventually and spent £900 on a 486SX pc from PC World.. the first and last pc I ever bought from them for all the reasons you can imagine.. so I could enjoy the likes of Gunship and FS5 Actually, it may have been FS4. I think I moved up to FS5 when I got the P50

ATB
DaveB