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Old 08-04-2010, 05:14 AM
Feuerfalke Feuerfalke is offline
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Originally Posted by Flyby View Post
At 60 years old, I remember my first pc flight sim experience. It was called F-19, (I think), and there were no joysticks. It was a low resolution model played against an orange background (way cool). The whole sim was loaded on a few floppy discs, and it ran on Windows 3.1. Later more flight sims required DOS agility, and custom start-up discs. (anyone remember TFX?). Then US Navy Fighters came out and it required Windows95. The genre has come a long ways since then. Long live combat flight sims!
Flyby out
Heh, you mean this one?



And we thought it was as real as it can get - LOL.

BTW it's an actual screenshot, not a thumbnail. Resolution 320x200 pixels was common for games at that time.
Good old times...
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