What has been your progress through WW2 flight simulation?

[TomcatViP]

Damn I feel old reading all of you...

My first sim was the famous lunar landing sim on early PC.

Then I had 6128 and played extensively on TopGun, an F14 Tomact BFM simulation where the alrdy small screen was halfed in two parts and you could fight against an opponents seated along side you with gun only (the Phoenix missiles were alward with perf simulating the Spa and the Sid). This was a good one that built the mind of a virtual fighter pilot as the "graphics" were pretty well summed up by a straight line for the horizon. It developed my SA very well since you had to keep a close look to all the info in your HUD and build your airspace and trajectory by the numbers.


Then I switched to Comodore and started with F18 a pretty good sim at the time with pyramid shaped mountain etc...

Staying on Comodore I pretty tried everything that was launched on this platform including Birds of Prey that was pretty good at the time (ahhh will never forget my run in space inside the cockpit of my beloved X-15 at Mach 6+).

then there was the PC with Microprose1942 on the pacific campaign where I mastered formation flying during long flight from Rabaul to Guadalcanal in my Zero (no autopilot, no accelered time, real sized map !), Flight (unlimited) I, II and III, the reality and the amazing DID EAF and Falcon 4 (the best PC sim ever).

Soon I went back to civil PC sim with Fly. Then WWII Jane's, EAW (with complete campaigns in the RAF, the LufW and the USAAF !).

And everything else that went out.

I might have forget some but you will forgive me for my grand age.