Subj : Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
To   : Nightfox
From : paulie420
Date : Tue Nov 19 2024 21:33:39

 Ni>  pa> I'd love to play around with current day flight sims. I don't have th
 Ni>  pa> hardware (nor controls) to do so, but man they look so flipping real 
 Ni>  pa> days.
 Ni> 
 Ni>  pa> I remember running MSFS on MS-DOS 3.3 - amazed back then, flying arou
 Ni>  pa> O'Hare. :P
 Ni> 
 Ni> Yeah, the first version of MSFS I played was 4.0 on my dad's computer
 Ni> (in 1988 or 1989, I think).  Probably also MS-DOS 3.3.  O'Hare airport
 Ni> was the default starting airport in MSFS for a long time.  And one time,
 Ni> I found out that MSFS had some multi-player capabilities; you could
 Ni> apparently connect over a modem, and you and your friend could both be
 Ni> flying around at the same time.  I thought that was so cool at the time,
 Ni> even though I never tried that.

I think I started on MSFS 5.0 - but can't remember for sure...

Either way, the same squares and triangles that made flight so fun back then. Imagine that now-a-days you get the literal full experience. WTF!?!?!

I wish I had the system to be able to play - can I come over??!



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