“Very lucrative business”?
Um, no.
“Very lucrative business”?
Um, no.
It’s not like you’re selling a single $60 copy to Raytheon, ya know.
MSFS was a vanity project throughout the years, period. And the writing was on the wall when they kicked them out of Willows and jammed them into Mil-F.
It’s the end of an era. Again. I’ve been playing Microsoft Flight Sims since the mid 80’s.
Do you know that “Two things that makes me cry.” thread in EE? Well this and this
Willow? MILF?
Willows campus and the Millennium-F building.
Pedantically, it would only be just over three times.
I just googled “Mil-F” at work trying to figure this out - thanks a lot :-)
Back in my day, Flight Simulator was published by SubLogic.
A 10x10 black and white grid, two landing strips (rectangles), and a WWI combat game in which the enemy was literally one red pixel.
And we liked it.
Well, I had SubLogic’s Flight Simulator II, which actually had some of the more recognizable buildings in Chicago. And if you got close enough to your target in the WW2 game you could see it looked like a plane. :)
That was the first computer game I ever played. My dad got it when we got out PC, and we played it on a two-color monitor. :(
And that PC must have cost 5000$.
Oh man, what did you do when that pixel died? Powertools, right?
Without flight sim, how will I know if my computer is really 100% IBM compatible?
Is this actually backed up by any numbers, by the way? Last time I actually looked at MSFS numbers - which was early 2000s - they were actually surprisingly chunky.
KG
I played it on an Apple II. Not II+ or //e.
I still have the receipt: $3800 for the computer, plus a few hundred extra to go from 16K memory to 48K. $545 for the first 145K floppy drive, $495 for the add-on second one. Two controllers (basically round knobs with a couple of buttons.)
And the first time I pressed the throttle key on the keyboard and the plane view moved forward (black and white, or rather some purple and white) and I saw the little jagged line drawing on the right, that represented mountains, moving by and then when I saw the “ground” (that 10x10 black and white matrix" fall away as I took off, I was in awe. Few moments in gaming have seared themselves in my brain in the way that moment did (a moment in a cut scene in Karateka, the tiny stick hostages waving thank you when you dropped them off in Choplifter, etc.)
that was pretty cool…
I only ever had SubLogic FS2 on my Apple //e and MS FS3 on my IBM PS/2-60.