Re: Microsoft Apple Flight Simulator?

[xx382@freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)]

In our last episode, nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) said:

>>At one time I heard of or saw in a catalogue about an Apple IIe flight 
>>simulator made by Microsoft (a long time ago).  I was wondering if anyone 
>>has seen it or heard of it and/or if it still available somewhere???
>
>   I have it. For an Apple ][+, and SHR graphics, it was probably pretty
>cool. But, it was released about 1981 or so, and it show it. If you
>were expecting something akin to MS Fight Sim for the Mac/IBM, forget
>it. Remeber that the //e has serious speed and graphics limitations...

It's made by Sublogic, actually (both FS1 and FS2). Microsoft may have
bought it from them and stuck their name on it, like they do so often.
The Sublogic version of FS2, at least, came with a couple of cool manuals
that taught me most of what I know about flight (the rest came from
"Night Mission", of course).

Using SHR to mean "single hi-res" may confuse some people (particularly
those desperate for any hint of a GS flight simulator).

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