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I also remember the amazing pre-ORBX sceneries, VOZ Austraia and FSAddons's Tongass Fjords.įSX: Much can be said about the performance, but the scenery was so beautiful that I just had to buy yet another extremely expensive computer to get this baby running. Active Sky was acquired as well, and when the Level-D 767 was installed I became an airline addict.
Ultimate Terrain, Flight & Ground Environment and their Cessna 172 and Aeroworx King Air B200 Xtreme were amazing. Flight1 got most of my money at this point. I totally loved getting all the vintage aircraft, and the Ford Tri-Motor was a blast. The scenery wasn't that much improved from FS2002, but third party developers really raised the bar to unimaginable levels for this sim.
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It brought my computer to it's knees, so no doubt there was some serious code going on at this point. The addon scene exploded at this stage and I still hadn't considered any payware addon.įS2004: Well, I couldn't use it at first. I spent 100s of hours sightseeing the mountains of Montana in the C208 floatplane.
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It was really the first sim in the FS series to allow immersive VFR flying. Even though I was way too old to play with computer games at this stage, I just couldn't leave it alone. By far the biggest leap forward in the series.
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I was especially fond of the Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde, and that nice thick manual I read from cover to cover.įS2002: A major scenery revolution, AI Traffic and ATC all at once. It was the first time my home airport and town was included in a flight sim thanks to a talented freeware developer.įS2000: It was plagued with problems, but I quite liked it and the aircraft were much improved from FS98. FS98 spawned the first big wave of freeware developers and Internet downloads. phwew.įS98: I was really uninterested in Microsoft's Flight Simulator until FS98 and only flew various combat sims before that. The computer DRIPS with nostalgia when I do that.Īah, the good old days. Sometimes, I'll put on a few of the Top-40 songs which were on the air during my time with FS4 and re-create some of the routes I flew down there in the basement, except this time on the far more modern Prepar3D. Now I'm building awesome fictional cities with incredible airports, and creating fighter jet mockups which I took flying out of Oakland, CA, down the bay, and then east towards this cool sounding airport known at the time as "NALF Crows Landing"Īs FS5, 5.1, and beyond started releasing, I moved just slightly away from the hobby - rightfully distracted by other things in life - but started making my return during FS2000 and beyond.
Again, flying a lot of flights from Meigs out and over to O'Hare, but then the "Aircraft and Scenery Designer" tool released. I begged and pleaded and won the gift of Flight Simulator 4. Next memories - Now sitting in the basement of my home as a kid, on the new i286 with EGA graphics. I'd fly out of there further south to Champagne. I'd fly out of Meigs Field of course, but then discovered this odd sounding town south called Kankakee. But in retrospect, I think that FS2002 would deserve an award for the "most improved FS version".įirst memories - Sitting in the den of my home as a kid, attempting to fly (maybe 5 FPS tops?) on subLogic's Flight Simulator II for the Commodore 64. However, it was the first version than introduced the problem of blurry textures (a problem that has stretched all the way to today's P3D). Some of the revolutionary features included ATC and autogen (and yet the sim ran smoother than the predecessor). Do you remember the awful performance of FS2000? I can remember that the much improved performance of FS2002 was a big relief to the flightsim community and made flyers quickly appreciate the new sim. I think that to this date, FS2002 has been the sim with the best improvement and biggest feature addition over the previous version. I want to start with fall 2001, when FS2002 was released. For example, are there any particular memories (positive or negative) or features of a new version that have shaped your flightsim experience or "career" and that you want to share? I'd like to open a thread where you can discuss nostalgic aspects of Microsoft Flight Simulator.