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Originally Posted by mazex
OK, let me guess your age after a statement like that?  In the 80:ies and 90:ies flight simulators was one of the major game genres. Every other PC gaming magazine had an aircraft on the cover... But those where the days when most of the gaming rigs in the world where owned by engineers |
Yupp!
Played my 1st PC sim around 1986 on a commodore 64 in the barracks in Wurzburg Germany. Than didn't play one again (Dynamix Red Baron) until around 1991 when I got my 1st PC while going to collage. Did my first flight sim mod (added rockets to the P3
for a game called SWOTL.. Than made a lot of mods for AOTP and AOE.. Played my 1st true online sim called Air Warrior Online (Genie network) at a cost of $12/hr. Fell in love again with PAW 1942 which was the first 6DOF flight model implemented in a PC flight sim game.. Tried my hand at modern flight sims with a sim called Falcon 3.0, Than waited for a few years for EAW to come out.. In the mean time joined and played Warbrids for years.. Than a little sim called IL-2 came out that change everthing again. And than 10 years later.. Here we are