From: "Eric"
Newsgroups: alt.games.microsoft.flight-
sim,microsoft.public.flightsim,rec.aviation.simula tors
Subject: MSDOS FS 5.1 runnable under Windows 2000/XP?
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:45:51 -0500

LOL

I played Sublogic's FS2 again not too long ago for nostalgia.

Hi Eric... Yes it is fun to pull those things out from time to time.

I'm not familiar with the lineage of MSFS, but did it evolve out of
Sublogic's FS? I remember Sublogic's FS2 having been developed for most
of the 8-biters back "in the day".

Yes, SubLOGIC (Bruce Artwick was a main guy) created what is now known as MS
Flight Simulator. And versions of FS 1 and 2 never mentions Microsoft on any
copy that I know of. It was only there with FS3 and up. And I don't know if
MS licensed it or bought them out or what? I do know some of the people
working for SubLOGIC did become Microsoft employees though.

I had FS2 for the Radio Shack TRS-80 "Color Computer 3". I still have
the original 5 1/4, the manuals, and the maps that came with it. I'm
wasn't about to dig out all the Coco stuff just to play it, but it
worked well enough through an emulator.

Pretty funny compared to today's capability.

You bet.




Cheers!


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Bill (using a HP Pavilion 8655c under 2000)
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