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On behalf of myself and all of you, FS-friends, who visit my website, I like to thank Miguel Blaufuks, director of simFlight.
He kindly offered to house the FS History website and take the burden of all the needed disk space and traffic.

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The last Dutch FlightsIm Weekend on 5/6 November 2005 in the Dutch Aviation Museum (or Theme Park) Aviodrome at Lelystad  was again a huge success. Not in  the least because of all the work by our great organiser Frans Broekhuijsen.

And yes, like in 2004 FS History was also present with a small booth. For an impression look here:

With more participants and more visitors then ever before in this fantastic venue this probably deserves the title Biggest FS Event in the World".

The next FS-Weekend will take place at the same venuein November 2006, hopefully with FS-X. See you?

For a report by Rob de Vries take a look at the website:

http://www.FSweekend.com

Latest revision: 16-11-07

Your Reactions

In the meantime quite a lot of readers have reacted to the "Flight Simulator History" website or "The Old FS Vault" companion site. Below you'll find a selection. Of course it is nice to read that my website "brings back wonderful memories", "brought tears in my eyes"  or "reminded me at the good old times of FS II on the Commodore". But I also very much welcome reactions about omissions, mistakes or other things that are not correct or might be added.

If you feel like reacting, please be my guest. So far I haven't created a real "guestbook", but copied the contents of the individual e-mails you sent me. If you want to send me a reaction, good or bad, you can reach me via e-mail at: this address. So long.

26/02/05 Adrian Brown You have done a fantastic job with your site and I have to thank you. Without this the flight simulator history would've be forgotten. I found a spelling error on The Old Flight Simulator Vault news page (highlighted in red, but I would also change the word BETTER to IMPROVED.
09/03/03

Adrian Brown

Do you plan to update the site to include 2004. Yes, I will, in time!

13/11/01

Adrian Haselton

thanks a lot for the nice memories

20/01/05 Adrian Lindsay Thanks for your work on the FS website. You’re welcome to come see us or join us anytime at www.hovercontrol.com
07/12/05 Alejandro Moya HELLO,Im from Mexico its great your page, congratulation. I ride for the razon,I cant get work the fs1 for pc. the oders fs" alredy works fine. I have windows xp. works fine fs2, fs3, fs4, fs5. Im glad if you can help. sorry for my inglish. I hope you understan. tanks for your time
14/10/01

Allen Pelletier

What a great idea

16/11/02

Alessandro Antonini

Brings back sweet memories. Thanks.

06/12/04 Alex You certainly did a lot of research and put considerable time into it, but I do notice one glaring omission to the credits section: I see none given to Microsoft!
23/11/01

Alex Kies

where I can buy or download old flightsims?

10/10/00

Andreas Toepper

one of these days I'll get the apple version posted.

17/10/01

Andrew Herd

Oh joy! I will gladly write a piece  for your site on a trip down memory lane with FS,

02/11/02

Andrew J. Mackriell

Just finished reading your page on FS history – fascinating

14/10/01

Andy Voss

Lots of interesting info!  I'm glad to see it done.

26/04/02

Angelo Diaz

Nice website. I have original subLOGIC posters. Want a picture?

19/04/05 Annette Bingham Hello, My brother in law gave me the Microsoft Flight Simulator Version 6.0 for windows 95. I am unable to use it due to not having the 10 Digit CD key, it supposed to be on the label on the back of the case, However we have lost this case, Can you help??  Thanks!!!!
19/04/03

Antonio

Y os queria dar las gracias por este estupenda paguina ,pero como yo somos muchas gentes que hablamos en espańol , y os queria decir si podrias poner la paguina en espańol, gracias y un saludo.

21/06/02

Arnie Lee (Abacus)

Well done!

01/02/02

Arno van Vulpen

Will include link to your website (http://amv002.cjb.net) links->Flight Simulator

23/12/01

Art Geverding

What a nice surprise to find such a well done and interesting site

04/11/01

Aviodrome

Raymond Oostergo, Yvonne Russ

02/11/01

Bert van Kampen

Prima gedaan, het initiatief voor jouw nieuwe site over de historie van FS

15/10/01

Bill

wanted you to know I still have FS II cartridge for an Atari XE

01/06/03

Bill Hughes

I believe that your site is very important to Flight Simmers, particularly the younger generations

16/06/02

Bill Molony

Thanks so MUCH for putting together your FS History Site! Brings back some wonderful memories!

13/04/04

Bill Pileggi

Enjoyed reading history of Flight Sim. on your website. Do you have any information on release date 1.00 for the IBM PC?

29/10/00

Bill Sherwood

It looks *great*. You've put in a lot of work there, and it's well worth it! Thanks for letting me help you.18/02/02

18/02/02

Biro Tamas (Csücsök)

I would like to ask you for your help to use the information and pictures appear on the website for making the Hungarian FS history web page at http://www.fsklub.hu/

05/10/01

Bob …

interesting site

08/10/01

Bob Iken

Jos, Good job!

03/11/00

Bob Jemian

yes, I am the one that wrote the paragraph about MS FS V1 00

22/10/01

Brian Deane

I've just visited your "Flight Simulator History" web-site and found it very interesting! Have items!

18/05/02

Brian J. Fillery

T80-FS1 website

09/03/04 Brian Harris Do you know where I can get a copy of the instructions for fs2 for C64? I have no clue how to use it If you can help me I would be greatfull.
14/12/00

Bruce Williams

Product manager FS at Microsoft

14/10/01

Bryan Sei

This site brings back a lot of memories.

13/08/02

Carlos Breviglieri Júnior

I couldn’t find any other website all-in-one FS history. Very nice idea.

13/01/02

C.E. Forman

Very nice-looking site. Fascinating timeline, very well-researched.

17/04/05 Chanel Chambers I want to thank you so much for bringing back old memories. I was an avid FSII for the AppleIIe flightsimmer when I was a child. I remember spending hours upon hours flying around "Chicago" in front of the computer my airline pilot father bought me. I had almost forgotten about my childhood love for flightsimming, and your site helped me remember. Thanks again-
13/10/00

Charlie Gulick

!!! Congratulations on the great job you're doing, Joseph! I just checked out your latest site. Best regards, and keep up your fine work!

19/04/04

Chris

Can you please tell me, if you know, where I can find a download or possibly a copy of one of the early flight simulators from Microsoft? Thank you for your help.

24/07/03

Chris Porter

Love your FS history site.  Are you going to update it with MSFS 2002 and 2004?

18/06/04

Christian Leu

Merci pour votre site qui est super. Je vous remercie aussi pour le travail que vous faite pour la communaute de Flight Simulator. Bon weekend cher Jos.

13/12/01

Christian Sauer

Amiga Flight Simulator

14/04/04

Christoph Kober

I see your great site accidently and read what you wrote about the fs1 and so on- Simulator. Great stuff.

20/12/04 Claudio Grasssi Great idea, but don't you forget ZX Spectrum's Flight simulator from PSION. A 48kb software that teach to me a lot.
14/01/02

Clifford Cox

Where did the Timex flight sim fit in?  I remember it as being around 1980 or so...very primitive.

15/02/05 Computer Pilot Mag. This is definitely another "must see" site. Giving an in-depth look at the history of Flight Simulator from 1979-2004. Wow, 25 years! Here's more info to be found then what I was aware of. Which makes for excellent reading for most any Flight Simulator enthusiast. Be sure to bookmark it, as it's by far one of the best site detailing the history of Flight Simulator.
13/02/05 Creighton Urgo I was just checking out your website, and I saw FS 3.0. I was wondering if there is any way to obtain an original Manual for FS 3.0. If you have one that I could purchase or a link to a PDF, or downloadable version of it, that would be great if you could send it to me or add it to your website. I also wanted to say that your website is very in depth and you have done a good job.
14/10/01

Daniel Biosca

Hi Jos, I've just known about your FS History page, and I'm impressed.

09/06/03

Darren J Brown

I found the attached images and just thought you may be interested in them.

14/10/01

Dave March

EXCELLENT site...  well done...  I intend now to study it in great detail.

07/02/04

Dave Schneider

Just wanted to tell you that I enjoyed the visit to your site. I did not know it existed! Very good information.

02/12/02

David July

you can download old versions 3 and 4 of FS from the following location: http://abandoncreations.cjb.net

07/02/05 David Martin I just found your website (very nice indeed), and noted your comment in the wanted section; I have the book, do you still want it?
14/03/05 Davide Rovagnati I've found your site while i was looking for (very) old stuff; i'm very fond of old computer emulation. i finally got fs1 for pc: been looking for it for a long time. i would have liked to get Mac version, too; but there's no link on the page. Is it freely avalaible?
02/10/03

Davy Kong

Glad to meet your Flight Simulator History web site , it's really great. I wish to translate some of your article to Chinese , would you allow me to do it ?

29/12/04 Dean Bielanowski you have a great site, that's why we have mentioned it in Computer Pilot on more than one occasion in the past. I would be interested in reading your new 'story' on flightsim history on your site when it becomes available... let me know!
06/09/02

Dean Hall

Firstly, what a fantastic site you produced!

04/12/04

Dean Hoke

What a great freaking website -- man-oh-man -- I had forgotten the names of those programs that have  forged my hobby and obsession for over 20 year. I have flown ‘em all, from Jet Fighter I '85 and Falcon 1-by "Chop-Stick Louie", to the latest, greatest Project Magenta stuff. 
I cut my teeth on ATP, and then got my private pilots license just to see if it worked. I am still a Joystick junky and spend my time greasing murderous ILS approaches in the crappiest weather scenarios and killing commies in the air.

02/07/04

Dean Mountford

My Dad has 5 copies of the Manual for Flight Simulator 2.0 for the Apple.  I'm sure he'd be interested in selling one of them....

02/09/03

Dermot Stapleton

You deserve a copy of our  “PC Pilot - the complete guide to computer aviation”

05/12/04

Dirk Fassbender

One of my all-time favourite sites. I will have some more looks on the new stuff. Thank you for your entry in my guestbook and thank’s for the info. I have changed the link and the image.

02/09/03

D J Walker-Morgan

Just a small typo: “When newer computers arrived in 1968 like the Atari ST”: should be 1986 !

13/10/00

Don Schaaf

Keep up the good work, hope to hear from you on a regular basis.

06/01/04

Earl Patterson

When I found this site I have been thinking if Artwick never had made this game possibly i had never been a real pilot  … my life could be bored!

30/04/01

Ed Peters

Hardstikke goede website. Heb het allemaal meegemaakt!

08/03/05 Edoardo Daneo Greate site! It reminds me of many hours passed reading to manuals, trying to land in the middle of two rows of white dots in the middle of a black screen :-)))))
I think you should also add in the wanted list the Flight Simulator for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Thank you very much for your great job!!
18/10/00

Enno Borgsteede

Voor die tijd vloog heel FsFan met FS II op de Atari ST.

10/10/00

Enrico Schiratti

great work!  hope you manage to keep expanding

14/10/01

Enrique Vaamonde

Hi Jos...first of all, thanks for your website. It's brought some nostalgia to my Sunday ;)

31/10/01

Eric Korpela

The first numbered scenery disks appeared not long after FS II was released, ca. 1983

18/05/02

Ernie Alston

Re: miscellaneous: you should add a VA history story

10/02/05 Evan Koblentz Today I found your Flight Simulator page -- excellent work! I especially enjoyed the video showing all the different versions. The first one I ever owned was for my Apple IIe in about 1985. To help celebrate the 25th anniversary, I would like to interview Bruce Artwick. Of course, the article will include a link to your site. Does he have a personal web site, or can you tell me how to contact him?    ---->    I wish I knew ;-((
12/10/01

Floris Wouterlood

Jos, hardstikke LEUK!!!!!!

30/09/01

Franc Brvar

Mooie website. Ik stuur je hierbij die (ouwe) Atari ST emulator.

18/10/01

Francois Dumas

You're welcome. I started FS on a C64 myself, so your site really brings back memories.

10/12/03

Frank ??

Just stumbled on to your flight sim page. Great nostalgia.

05/11/01

Frits Tappe

Dat was een fantastisch idee! Heb genoten van het bezoek aan jouw site! Kom zeker terug.

19/12/01

Gene & Jan Warner

Congratulations! Your Flight Simulator web site is very well done. We will be coming back to check out new additions.

16/10/01

Gene Von Klau

Thank you for your website about the history of Flight Simulator. It brought back many happy memories.

22/03/01

Georges Lorsche

As a veteran in FS I like your website.

18/10/01

Gerard van Beusekom

Ik las dat je je bezighoudt met FS nostalgia. Wel  een eerste duik in mijn kasten leverde de volgende spullen op, die je wat mij betreft mag hebben

26/03/05