Classic British Flight Sim

I bought this for the BBCB...two sides of a music type cassette, one keyboard version the other for a joystick.

Believe it or not, this gave me hours of fun

http://www.gb64.com/oldsite/gameofweek/ ... tw_747.htm

Indeed mate.. and you didn't need a computer powerful to run a small country either!

ATB
DaveB

That must be an enhanced version as I didn't have colour.

The waypoints were diamonds and the runways were rectangles.

It was really just instrument flying and the thing with this and other games of the time, unlike now we accepted them for what they were and got on with it. I used to go from Heathrow to Gatwick, my favourite place to crash

It's so good now we want it as real so it tends to be viewed not so much with what it has, like with this early attempt, but what it hasn't.

This was my first ever flightsim, for the mighty Sinclair QL.

http://rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/index ... 0Simulator

IIRC there was a 737 sim in development, but that never saw the light of day. PSION actually did a flightsim for the ZX81, but I never got around to buying that, and I moved on the QL as soon as it was released.

http://www.migman.com/sw/PSION/gameplay_03.php

TTFN

Wow?? ...the top one had scenery

I can't find any images of my first flight sim but here's a magazine advert for it. It was a rather clever IFR simulator. I vividly remember how the display would turn blood red, accompanied by an ambulance siren, when I'd crash.



Brian

FlyTexas wrote: I vividly remember how the display would turn blood red, accompanied by an ambulance siren, when I'd crash.

Brian

Mine didn't do that...if it had, I would have known...frequently

My first flight sim was for the Sinclair Spectrum. We've come a long way in 20 odd years.

Mine was F18 Interceptor for the Amiga 500!

I loved it to bits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8piDU5UFA68

Kind regards

John

I could never afford the BBC B, I settled for a 16K Spectrum and had that Psion flight sim program on it. The Speccy died of melting when I left it plugged in overnight. Not having learned my lesson I upgraded to a 48K Speccy, which also melted.