Dreamchaser
11-30-2004, 08:10 PM
The Sublogic flight simulator was one of the first ever created and worked well on the Atari 800XL
The piper cub had a complete control panel, the building and landscape were only one step up from the green wireframe mode of Atari Arcade game Battlezone, but the scale and 3d view from the air had enough realistic --feel-- to give you shivers when the plane took off.
I was in the Air Force active duty at the time and presented this software to some of the pilots. These pilots told me the realism and flight psysics was well done.
The original program started you off at a small air port near Chicago, Ill. and as long as you had the additional disks containing flight maps you could fly in real time all the way accross the U.S.
You could even use the Instrument Landing system (ILS) at airports which were equipped.
The piper cub had a complete control panel, the building and landscape were only one step up from the green wireframe mode of Atari Arcade game Battlezone, but the scale and 3d view from the air had enough realistic --feel-- to give you shivers when the plane took off.
I was in the Air Force active duty at the time and presented this software to some of the pilots. These pilots told me the realism and flight psysics was well done.
The original program started you off at a small air port near Chicago, Ill. and as long as you had the additional disks containing flight maps you could fly in real time all the way accross the U.S.
You could even use the Instrument Landing system (ILS) at airports which were equipped.