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 |
Gerard Swenker |
Gefeliciteerd ; congratulations ! I just
DL’d the video ; very, very nice work. Please keep up your efforts, you are
filling in an important gap here. By the way ; why not include CFS I & II ? |
18/10/01 |
Gonzalo Vega |
Hello from Costa Rica... thank you... and congratulations
for the page |
02/02/03 |
Greg Gott |
XP all the way, no matter (to me) Pro or Home. |
09/12/02 |
Gu Magri |
When you come to Săo Paulo and want to fly glider contact
me ok! |
09/05/03 |
Gunnar |
I started in 1984 with subLogic FS 2 for Commodore 64. Do
you need cover scans ?? |
23/01/05 |
Hajo Dekhuijzen |
Jos, geweldige websites over fs
history!! Ik heb je niet gezien op dat weekend, ben je daar wel geweest met
deze posters? En kom je in April weer? |
03/10/00 |
Hans Otto |
Inderdaad
een heel verhaal. Maar met genoegen gelezen. |
13/10/01 |
Hans Petter Roverud |
I just browsed through your history of flightsim website
and it looks promising. |
22/06/03 |
Harry Mole |
Thanx for a really wonderful site... excellent work.. it
doesn't go unseen. |
08/02/05 |
Harry Zanin |
Thank you for that wonderful trip down
memory lane with Flight Simulator. One area that wasn't touched upon, likely
for good reason, was the bitter law suite between Bruce Artwick and Stu
Moment when Bruce left SubLogic. Flight Assignment: ATP, was a better
simulator at the time than was FS. I can certainly try and assist you with
what I can remember [gets less and less as each year passes :-))) ] with ATP
and look over anything you may write about the program along with Airline
Simulator. ATP and Airline Simulator have always held a soft place in my
heart and I love to reminisce about those programs. |
03/12/04 |
Henk
Laarakker |
Hallo,
bedankt, even een kort berichtje vanuit Grave. ik heb de video bekeken mijn
eerste flight simulator was 3.0, Het is haast niet voor te stellen dat toen
zo bijzonder was. Hardstikke leuke video .zelf heb ik nog een paar jaar aan
ultralight vliegen in Lelystad gedaan, maar dit is te kostbaar, dus vlieg ik
nog steeds met fs 2004 . |
13/10/00 |
Henry Jakobs |
Very nice website. I have all FS Versions. |
19/11/04 |
Herman W. Lenferink |
Zeer fraaie
site. Ben je eigenlijk nog van plan hem verder uit te breiden ? |
15/10/01 |
Hessel
Oosten |
Genoten van
je FS History site. Het is leuk te midden van al het gestreef naar nieuwe
versies, te zien hoe het allemaal is ontstaan. |
03/12/04 |
Howard Bloom |
Thank you for a GREAT site. I have been hooked on FS
since FS2 on a PC Jr in 1984. I have made many good friends thru this
wonderful hobby, including Charlie Gulick, Doug Horton, Bruce Artwick and
many many more. I have attended every Flight Sim conference since the first
one at Cornell University and was just wondering if we have ever met. Thank
you again for helping to relive many wonderful memories. |
24/10/01 |
Hubert Born |
Congratulations for your site, I hope you'll continue
with it, not as other who stopped. |
28/11/01 |
Hugh Falk |
I'm always glad to run into another classic gaming
collector.. |
22/10/01 |
Hugo Feugen |
Kort gezegd,
er ontbreekt heel veel van jou geschiedenis, maar dat is bijna altijd de
aard van zo'n taak. |
13/10/01 |
Ihor "E" Tanin |
I have many
books and disks from V1 TRS-80 with many add-ons let me know if that could
help you out . |
24/01/02 |
Jaaky Krant |
Ook ken ik
je site (met die mooie intro met de FS verpakkingen...). |
19/04/04 |
James McBride |
Good web page on FS.. I have a 360Kb disk (actually 2 or
more of) with the original Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 for the IBM PC. |
04/03/03 |
Jan Eberle |
I enjoyed looking at your web site. Thanks. |
21/04/05 |
Jan van Heck |
Fantastische website. Ik zal zsm een link
naar je website aanleggen. Dat je langs komt stellen wij op prijs. |
09/10/01 |
Jan Willem
Knoppers |
Fantastisch,
hartelijk bedankt voor al dat werk |
27/09/04 |
Jason …. |
Just wanted to say congratulations
on your websiteI was reminiscing about my first version of flight simulator,
which was 4.0, and I thought I would like to see some screen shots of it to
remember it better. I found your site and saw a couple of images I remember.
Good luck and i'll keep checking back. Also, I would LOVE it if you are able
to find downloadable versions of previous versions to play for fun. |
30/12/03 |
Javier Martinez |
Very nice flight sim page but where is the download
section????
Recently added as separate website: "The
Old FS Vault".
(JG) |
03/05/02 |
Jean-Michel Bernard |
Congratulations for your site about Flight Simulator
History ! |
06/01/03 |
Jean Pierre |
site superbe qui me remembre il y a 23 ans sur TRS80 et FS1.
Sorry no English. |
18/11/04 |
Jean Pierre Rousseau |
Hi, I want to download fs5 from your website, but the
links don't work and the files are not on the directory. Can you include
them, or are they available somewhere else on the web? |
24/05/02 |
Jeff Smith |
link added to MW website |
27/05/02 |
Jim Broyles |
Sir: I operated a flight simulator in
Germany at the 8th Aviation Bn, Finthen Germany.The mission dealt with
training pilots to fly using instruments. ADF and Omni.We used trainers by
Link Transadyne .The 1CA1 fixed wing & the 2B3A rotary wing. |
09/01/03 |
Jim Harley |
I found your site…and I gotta tell you...it brought back
a lot of fond memories. |
20/12/00 |
Jim Leonard |
I'd be happy to capture a session of Microsoft Flight
Simulator 1.03 (1981). |
10/02/03 |
Jim Koepnick |
You have my permission to use the photo
of Bruce Williams and the CTKH flight simulator (you may want to check with
Bruce for his permission to use his image). |
17/03/02 |
Jim Radke |
I much appreciated your history, and feel that it was
much needed. |
25/05/03 |
Jim Reimer |
What is happening to your site. I am an avid fan of your
site, but do you intend to update it? Is there anything I could do to assist
you? |
21/11/01 |
Joe Andreu |
It is interesting how much it has changed over the years,
Thanks, |
27/10/03 |
Joe Forte |
I just visited your sight on the History of FS. Great
Job! Brought back many memories. |
29/09/00 |
Joe Stearns |
I just read your wonderful FS History -- the piece on
Bruce Artwick. |
14/07/02 |
Joel Comm |
You have a
GREAT web site! I've started collecting Flight Sim products and came upon
your site in trying to determine which version of Flight sim I have in my
possession. |
02/10/00 |
Johan
van Cranenburgh |
Very nice
site. On my old pages you can maybe find some additional material on FS1, 2,
3 and 4. Use it as you like. |
12/02/05 |
Johan Lemmers |
Prachtige site, die FS historie op The
Old Flight Simulator Vault. Doet me weer denken aan de tijd dat ik begon met
FS2. Helaas heb ik van de eerdere versies niks meer bewaard en ben blij dat
je die download page hebt. Maarre... heb je enig idee of die versies 1, 2 en
3 voor de PC nog ergens origineel te krijgen zijn? --> Kijk op eBay of
Amazon shops/auctions. |
17/01/05 |
Johannes Naumann |
Congratulations for your website. It is
great! I used the ATC-Game "TOWER", but since I was forced to Win XP it
doesn't work any more and a new version cannot be found. Would pay money for
a new version ! Johannes.N, Germany |
04/04/05 |
John Bell |
I know that you have put
countless hours into your site and I just wanted to drop you a quick line to
let you know how much I enjoyed looking around your websites. When I was in
college, I used the C64 extensively and occasionally got to use the (at the
time) blazingly fast 12 Mhz !!! IBM PC's at school to run Flight Simulator.
As crude as the programs and hardware were by today's standards, they were
still very beneficial for learning instrument procedures for a college
student on a very tight training budget. Thanks again for the trip down
memory lane. I will have to show my little boys. |
06/08/02 |
John Dow |
I did like the site... wish I had some screenshots from
my old Amiga to contribute but that's long gone |
28/12/04 |
John Goodwin |
Just stumbled into your site while hiding
from the wife as she cooks Christmas dinner. Really love the site brings
back so many memories of the early days of FS. I have added a link on my
site http://www.john-goodwin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ so that others can come
and see you. Thanks for the hard work, I know what it is like keeping even a
small site like mine up to date. |
13/10/01 |
John D. Yarrow |
It was interesting to see your FS history page. You do
the hobby of flight simulation a real service with this site. |
23/10/01 |
John O'Neil |
Many thanks for the history (and I haven't even read it
yet!) |
13/10/01 |
John R. Bradley |
I'm finding your site to be fascinating! |
09/12/04 |
John Smith (ACES) |
Well done. But I was unable to access the
link to the posters on the first page of your FS history site: |
14/10/01 |
Jon Krol |
I have an unopened copy of MS Flight Simulator Version
3.0, copyrighted 1988. |
08/03/03 |
Jon Utley |
Jos , THANKS so much for the flashback! I am an avid
fs2002 user now .. |
05/12/01 |
Jonathan Reth |
GREAT SITE! wonderful work. |
29/10/00 |
Jonathan
Schattke |
It looks exactly like it does on an Apple ][ to me |
28/12/04 |
Jonathan Stern |
Thanks for the nice screenshots for the Computer Pilot
Magazine article (March 2005 issue). Best of luck with the history. If I can be of help,
please let me know. Regards, Jon |
30/11/01 |
José Eduardo Leitner |
!!!!! Thanks for such site, it’s exciting to remember
those past times !!! |
07/09/03 |
Josef Havlik |
I plan to make my own www pages about Flight Simulator
history, correct some mistakes from your pages... I am not sure if your
great pages are alive because of their last update but I have no any other
sources for my plans. |
28/07/03 |
Jozef van
der Vloet |
Door toeval
ben ik op Uw site terechtgekomen, het was mij een genoegen al die oude
covers van FS nog eens terug te zien. |
18/05/02 |
Juan C. Gómez García |
I have the original FSII for C64/128, if you need any
screenshots, just tell |
23/10/01 |
Juan Carlos
Pizzo |
I have to tell you that you did a very good job of
research and I’m very impressed with it. |
11/08/02 |
Julian J Berry |
I have just found an old copy of Flight Simulator II (v
2.12) on 5.25" disc |
08/02/03 |
Julio Antonio Ramírez |
I´m a mexican collector of flight simulator. Thanks for
the information. |
12/10/01 |
Katy Pluta |
I just love it! Congratulations! :-)) |
13/10/01 |
Ken
Grattendick |
I just wanted to let you know that your site is
fantastic. I am looking forward to its continued development. You have done
a wonderful job! |
12/10/01 |
Kerry Neighbour |
I just had a look at your History of Flight Sim website.
Interesting to say the least. |
24/10/00 |
Kevin
Kerfoot |
There are two pictures of Meigs field there |
11/12/04 |
Kevin Roberts |
I just discovered your website in a
mention on Flightsim.com. I really enjoyed what I've read so far. I've
always suspected a connection between Sublogics flightsim and Microsoft's.
But until I saw your time line I never really saw it spelled out. Thanks for
the enjoyable site. |
09/10/01 |
Kevin
Savetz |
The site looks great. |
11/04/05 |
L. Curtiss Boyle |
I have some information on the port of
the Flight Sim I on my Coco (nickname for the TRS-80 Color Computer) games
website: http://nitros9.stg.net/coco_game_list.html), and I will be adding
the port for Flight Sim II for the Coco 3 in the near future. I also have
permission from Greg Zumwalt (who did the Coco port of Flight Sim I) to make
it available for download, although I haven't had time to do so yet. Feel
free to use any images, downloads (when available) from my site. There is
another Flight Simulator on there called Worlds of Flight, but it is not an
official part of the subLOGIC/MS Flight Sim history. |
01/11/01 |
Lamont Duncan |
Just visited your web page and enjoyed it very much. |
13/06/04 |
Lars Klüver |
Just visited your website “Flight
Simulator History” – very interesting and nostalgic indeed!! Almost got
“tears in my eyes”.. OK – i haven’t been participating before 1995, though
I recall having seen the first version back in ancient time.. :-)) Hope
you’ll continu.
Posted the link at FSVC (Flightsim Veterans Club), |
08/12/01 |
Leandro Simőes |
I want to know if you could order me for e-mail the roms
of FS1 and 2 |
12/01/05 |
Lee Lieberman |
Hi, I had an Amiga and used subLogic's
orig FS years ago. I got some adventure books by Charles Gulick, published
by Compute! Books (e.g. 40 Great Flight Simulator Adventures, ISBN
0-87455-022-X). The books use the original "aircraft position" (geographic
grid), each adventure starts with geographic coordinates North Position: and
East Position: instead of latitude and longitude. I have not been able to
locate a way of converting the original " aircraft position" info to
latitude and longitude so I can play these wonderful old adventures on
Microsoft versions of FS. Can you help? Thanks in advance. |
03/06/03 |
Lee K.
Seitz |
Nice site on
the history of Flight Simulator. It cleared some things up for me. It's a
shame it hasn't been updated in a while, but believe me, I know how that
goes! |
04/11/01 |
Lee Sheridan |
I commend you; you are doing a great job with the
history. |
23/11/01 |
Lee Skarha |
I just found your web site and love it. I have not had
time to look at it completely but I’m glad someone is taking the time to do
this. |
28/08/03 |
Leroy Humphries |
Can you tell me where I can get the scenery disks for Mac
version 4.0 flight simulator? |
22/01/05 |
Louis Sinclair |
I checked out a little of your FS History
site. Cool! Feel free to ask me any questions about the 'old days' of FS. I
don't know if I'll be much help, but it's fun to think back :) |
16/10/01 |
Louis-Marius Gendreau |
What a great idea! Seeing screenshots from FSII for the
apple and the early PC and atari version was a great trip down memory lane!
Wow! thanks ! |
26/05/04 |
Luc Faerber |
Hello, I have found your WEB page about Flight Simulator.
I have FS4 and I search FS5 and a scenery editor for FS4 or FS5. Have you
any idea where I can find it ? |
08/03/05 |
Luciano Eibenstein |
my name is Luciano, and I am from Italy.
Certainly I spent much of my free life time playing with flight simulators.
You can imagine how I felt looking at you site. You hit my heart deeply. I
remember loading the program on a C64 with a tape-cassette! Hard times...
lol I also played much, and still do, with another Artwick program, Tower of
1995. The manual of that game mentions other BAO products like Microsoft
Space Simulator 1.0, TOWER/Pro (joint v. with Wesson INT, Inc.) and BAO Zero
(enhanced pro FS system). I know nothing about them. Do you think it would
be worth to include a section devoted to tower programs in your site? |
14/10/01 |
Manuel Andres |
I have just been checking out your Flight Simulator
History web page and have enjoyed it a lot. |
24/04/03 |
Marc L. Gravičre |
Your site is great. I do appreciate the Timelines and the
history of Bruce Artwick. |
15/10/01 |
Marc Lavoie |
You have a great web page and I will visit it often |
30/10/01 |
Marc van de
Wetering |
Het is heel
toevallig dat ik op je prachtige site terechtkwam, echt mooi gedaan! |
28/01/04 |
Marc-Andre Handfield |
First, I want to congratulate you for your website. Keep
up the good work! I must say that I have a copy of each simulator program
except the first two. Are you going to update your site soon ? Thanks again. |
15/05/04 |
Marcus
Thompson |
I also looked at your other site. Very-very
nice and really informative. This must be the foremost authority active
website on FS History out the on the WWW. Great job. I downloaded just
about everything you had up there so I can experiment trying to capture them
in realtime. |
08/01/02 |
Marek Pleschner |
You already have sent me A&SD and it's a great tool!
Thank you! |
20/04/05 |
Mark Daugherty |
I have a 5 1/4 drive and have had no
success trying to copy the two discs. Can you help? I will send you a copy
of Simulator 1.0 when I am done. Cheers, MD, Dallas Tx |
13/10/01 |
Mark Fahey |
Ghezz, what a great site |
31/10/00 |
Mark Percival |
Thanks for the update. I look forward to seeing your
work |
14/12/04 |
Martin Reiffer |
Dear Jos, thanks a lot for your wonderful journey through to
the past of MS Flight Simulator. I joined the community in 1989 with the
then brandnew FS4. I have also obtained most of the old school versions from
ebay (as I threw away my original boxes years ago). The reason why I send
you this e-mail is that I have a floppy disk version of FS5.1, which would
be a fine addition to your homepage. |
19/01/02 |
Marvin Decker |
Sure, I would be delighted to help in any way that I can. |
13/10/00 |
Mathijs Kok
(LAGO) |
The first add-on scenery ever made was a scenery called 'NoCanDO'
programmed by Enrico Schiratti for an Interstate race flown in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands. |
10/12/01 |
Matthew & Jade Wu |
found your web page about the history of FS. Very
interesting to me. |
21/08/02 |
Matthew Moulis |
I love the website, took me back to being a kid. |
17/03/03 |
Matthias Holzer |
Your site inspired me to create a site on my personal FS
history! |
08/05/02 |
Maurice Valkema |
Here are the Data General One FSII & A2-F1 Pictures. |
16/10/01 |
Maurice Weber |
Congratulations on a great and very interesting Web
site. It brings back many fond memories of enjoyment on the Commodore 64
and Flt Sim II. |
06/02/02 |
Maurizio M. Gavioli |
Thanks for your reply: I look forward to see the web
site! |
02/12/01 |
Maximo Levin |
I have FSII for Commodore 64, with box, diskette, maps,
flight reference chart and 2 manuals |
08/02/03 |
Michael Blanc |
Thanx for this FS story, a great initiative to all flight
lovers |
27/11/01 |
Mick Bereznyckyj |
I was pleased to see someone has taken time to do a
record of "Microsofts" flightsim. |
02/10/00 |
Miguel Blaufuks |
I have written to Microsoft to see it included in the
official fs2000/2 sites.. |
22/05/02 |
Miguel Lopes |
Here are
some pics. |
23/12/01 |
Mike Eckley |
I just wanted to take a minute to comment on how good
your Flight Simulator History page is |
07/12/04 |
Morten Kidal |
nice site you got. I was flying on the amiga
in the late '80. what has happened to that version on your site? keep up the
good work. |
30/03/02 |
Nels Anderson |
Splendid. Will add a link to your site at ours: FlightSim.Com. |
03/12/02 |
Nico Herzog |
hi guy(s), I really admire Your FS history page! I have
got (2,3,4,5.0,5.1,6,7,8), so for me it is very interesting to read about
those former versions on your page! |
16/03/02 |
Noel Kerns |
Just wanted to say it's really great what you've done to
chronologize the history of FS |
07/10/03 |
Nuno Rodrigues |
Some ideas for the 'Miscellaneous'
section: |
31/01/02 |
Oliver Lehmann |
Vielen Dank
nochmal für deinen Hinweis auf deine FS-History-Seiten. |
14/04/05 |
Skycontrol
(Pascale Tante) |
I visited Flight Simulator History's
website with great interest. May I therefore suggest a possibilitie that may
be of interest to you? Special Price: € 295 - An advertisement inserted in
the banner of Skycontrol’s Calendar page (the most visited page of the
magazine), including: - your logo with a hyperlink to your website - a short
description of your company - a hyperlink to your e-mail - a hyperlink to
your advertisement (PDF file) ----> Sorry – no money!!! |
05/08/02 |
Patrick Fogarty |
Thanks for the site, you brought a tear to my eye ! |
060/9/04 |
Paul Cabay |
I checked your website and I believe it
is compatible with mine, and I think it would be great to make a link
exchange. This is my site: www.utyx.com/aircraft. |
22/08/04 |
Paul Leatzaw |
Great Site!!! You need to add on the FS history page the
first photoreal scenery and first Mesh type terrain scenery ever produced
for a desktop PC, it was by mallard for FS5.0 it was San Francisco scenery,
|
15/04/02 |
Paul Vermeulen |
FS4 Graphics and Sound Upgrade - I did not notice this in
any of the text. |
15/10/02 |
Pavel Jordanek |
Looking for some old Microsoft FS suitable for my son´s
old PC pentium 75MHz |
01/08/02 |
Pedro Nunes |
Just wanted to let you know that I think you're doing a
great thing. |
22/08/04 |
Peter
Butzelaar |
Bedankt
voor de downpoad site. ik ben bezig alle FS-delen in mijn bezit te krijgen
(FS 1 t/m 9). Dankzij de Vault heb ik nu FS 1 t/m 4 al in bezit. Wanneer
komen de links voor FS 5.0? |
16/03/05 |
Peter Hurst |
Great site so far! I'm looking forward to
when you get to FS4 as that is the first copy I ever owned! Keep it up. |
05/12/01 |
Peter "MiGMan" Inglis |
It looks fine ! May I offer you free entrance to the
Flightsim Museum? |
18/12/04 |
Phil Lange |
Permit an introduction: I am a retired
computer engineer interested in all early Flight Sims. Your site was a gold
mine to me. I was very happy to see it. I am just having the time of my life
trying out all those old versions of Flight Sim. It is like Santa Claus came
to town early for me! I run FS2 for the Commodore c-64 on the real machine
as well as with WinVICE emulator. I have reworked the original load disk so
that it loads in 45 seconds rather than 2:40 minutes. I could upload a copy
to you for distribution |
28/10/01 |
Philip Evans |
I started flying Flight Simulator (sub LOGIC version
A2-FS2) in 1984 |
03/10/03 |
Philippe Pallu |
Congratulations for the site. Y have found it very
interesting |
08/02/05 |
Pierre Poirier |
Hi Jos, it has been
a long time. Congratulations first on your wonderful site about the history
of FS. Like you I am retired now and have more time. I have been in this FS
hobby since the beginning of the eighties, and by going through the history
of it all, I am amazed at the evolution of the technology. Simply amazing.
Keep the spirit alive, you are doing a great job. From your old friend (fsbench), |
16/10/01 |
Pieter van
Wyk |
Congratulations on an excellent idea, one has really
forgotten how times really did change! |
16/10/01 |
Rafael Sanchez |
a very interesting idea of making an 'FS museum of
history' as the one you are trying to do. |
04/10/01 |
Rainer Labie |
My first reaction is: this is outstanding and it was
really due to have it! FS is worth writing the history. Excellent design -
you're doing this alone? Great! |
01/12/01 |
Ray Porteous |
I like what your trying to do, all flight simmers should
help you complete this site, and maintain it as a history base for our
hobby. |
01/08/02 |
Raymond Laniel |
This to say that I hope you are aware there were certain
versions of FS for other computers (Amiga) that were much better than on the
limited PC type computer. |
12/10/02 |
Rebecca Lowell |
webmaster Microsoft FS site |
21/08/03 |
René Berger |
visited your nice website about the history of flightsim. I´m
also a big fan of all about flightsim |
09/12/04 |
René Hoep |
Jos,
Je hebt een prachtige site en ik hoop dat hij straks helemaal naar je zin
is. Ik was op zoek naar de bouwer van onze FS en kwam jouw SITE tegen. Ik
heb in onze SITE een vermelding naar BRUCE ARTWICK onze geestelijke vader en
heb daar nu een link ingelegd naar jouw site. Deze is straks te vinden onder
onze GALERIJ. Kijk op:
http://www.fsclub-friesland.tk/ |
23/04/02 |
Richard Inouye |
Pics for Gallery |
15/10/01 |
Richard Wade |
I really like your website. I’m glad to see somebody
doing this and preserving the FS legacy. |
09/05/05 |
Rick Connolly |
Nearly forgot about this for that
business computer, wow that's been some time now. There's one you may
consider, P51 Mustang which I believe was the first telephone modem sim or
could I say multiplayer for Tandy COCO and that's why I bought it, too. It
freed the other machine from gaming time. Oh, I hope you don't mind me
including a link to your site on my links page. Thanks muchly. |
25/11/01 |
Rick Lee |
Hi... I'm so happy that you are doing the FS History
project. I thought about doing it myself many times but I couldn't get
started. Somebody needed to do it. I will probably be sending you several
suggestions from time to time.... |
15/10/01 |
Rob Schatborn |
Hallo Jos,
het wordt tijd, dat ik jouw verhaal op mijn website ga linken. Heb het
meeste zelf ook meegemaakt. Ben onder de indruk van jouw website. |
13/08/04 |
Robert Cowan |
I saw your fine web site and it brought back many a fine
memory. A friend started me on computers in 1983 by loaning me a Atari
600XL. I followed this by buying a 800XL, …… etc. |
30/05/04 |
Robert
Prather |
I just came across your web site via Enrico Schiratti's
site, and was very interested in the history that you have been tracing
about flight sim software. If it's ok with you, I would like to add a banner
on my home page, linking to your web site. |
26/10/04 |
Robert Scoble |
I was reading your site and thought you might
be interested in this video tour I just put up of the FS team.
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=26632.
Keep it up! Thanks! |
17/10/00 |
Robert
Tournay |
Schitterend
gedaan, Jos. Laat de goede ouwe tijd herleven. |
11/04/05 |
Roden |
Greetings: I have an protected disk and I
want to copy this disk as another copy. Can I use Teledisk to copy all the
content of the original floppy disk? Hope you can help me? Thank you and I
look forward to your response. |
17/06/02 |
Roelof
Kruijer |
This is something else |
10/01/04 |
Roger
Wielgus |
Hello, I am filmmaker and simpit builder. I intend to
produce and direct a full length documentary about the cockpit builders. I
would of course interview some of the pioneer in that area like Bruce
Artwick. Do you know were I could find him ??? |
07/01/04 |
Roland
Collins |
I visited your site some time ago and having been an FS
fan since the beginning it was quite a nostalgic journey for me. I have just
visited it again and I must say that I am disappointed that you don't seem
to be receiving the kind of help that you deserve. |
30/06/01 |
Ron A. Norp |
Interessante en informatieve site. Goed werk! |
24/04/05 |
Ross Lawson |
Very kind of you to send me those addresses,
Jos. Thanks very much. Good luck with your very good website. Enjoyed it
very much. |
14/10/01 |
Roy Chaffin |
Good luck with the venture |
08/01/02 |
Rusel DeMaria |
I came across your excellent site on the history of Flight
Simulator and would like to ask a favour. I am writing a book on the
history of electronic games and I am looking for good hi-res scans of game
boxes for the book. I would like to include your website URL in the book for
people who want to read the whole story. |
14/12/02 |
Ruud Faber |
I contacted Jos abt. the pictures, thanks
again. |
19/07/04 |
Ruud Legdeur |
Die history
site is erg goed. Dat haalt weer herinneringen op van de Atari die we thuis
hadden met Flightsim (ik snapte er toen weinig van). En ik heb even de
parallel site bekeken en een oude versie gedownload. Supergaaf! |
13/02/04 |
Ryan Barclay |
I'm from Fly Away Simulation - a popular
FS site that you may have heard of. A while ago I wrote an article about the
History of Flight Simulation, which I thought you may be interested in and
could do something with and include on your great site about the History of
Flight Simulator. Feel free to use the article |
16/01/05 |
Sam Juvonen |
As a Commodore 64 owner who bought FS II
in 1984 as a young teen, I am enjoying your web site. On the Commodore FS II
page I see two entries that say they are links but do not offer the ability
to download the FS II for Commodore program. Is this available? I would love
to get it to run in my emulator on my PC. Thanks! |
30/09/01 |
Sander F. Prins |
Mijn
complimenten. Erg goed. Kom zeker lter nog wel een keertje terug |
22/11/02 |
Sandra Thies |
I try to picture the development over time for Flight
Simulator, so as your webpage is very rich in information, I will certainly
draw on it for my thesis. |
11/10/00 |
Sergio di Fusco |
Inzwischen
hatte ich Gelegenheit, deine FS-History zu besuchen. Es ist eine sehr schöne,
sehr informative Seite geworden. Mein Kompliment! |
18/09/04 |
Sharon Richardson |
Just wondering if you can direct me to credits/ staff for the
original MS simulator titles (up to and including the ‘98 release)? I was
hoping you have them buried in your site somewhere, but could not find the
info. Thanks very much for your help. |
14/03/05 |
Silverwing Nesslinger |
Thanks, Jos, for the history site. This compilation of the history of my
favourite hobby was long overdue. Since I started with FS98, i am very much
interested in the older versions, and the beginning of flight-simming at
all. S again, many thanks and keep on struggling - you`ve started a truly
great thing! Oh, before I close: there is a tiny mistake in the timeline:
the 737-400 was already part of FS98 (the one I started with), and did
therefore not appear for the first time in FS 2000, as it says in the
timeline. |
05/09/04 |
Sophie Bellot |
I'm looking for Flight Simulator 1, 2, 3 and 4 for my
brother!!! Very hard to find!! Can you help me? Thank you! |
17/04/05 |
Stavros Kokkinos |
I really loved the video "FS History - A
Video Snapshot" (older video (MT) to the current one). Congrats on a
wonderful video! I also loved the music in the background, I recognised the
different songs throughout the video. May I ask which songs these are? I
absolutely love them! I'm hoping to find then on the internet and buy them.
Thanks to any replies ;) |
14/10/01 |
Stephan
Haas |
Leuk
initiatief die historische site. Bracht herinneringen terug naar de tijd dat
ik absoluut van mijn Vic 20 naar een C64 over wilde vanwege de flight
simulator. |
05/01/03 |
Stephane Prigent |
Thanks you for your site. I am very happy to see the
picture of fs1 (to remember). |
13/12/04 |
Stephen Wong |
I wanted to thank you for your site. It
brought back memories of my childhood. I remember playing FS II as a child
on an Atari 800 and later as a teenager playing ATP on an IBM PC XT
computer. I recently moved and found my old Atari 800 and the original FS II
software, documentation, and maps that I played as a child. I tried it and
was surprised to find that the old 20 year old computer and FS II disks
still worked. After doing more research I found an Atari 800 emulator and
Atari versions of FS II on the internet. I didn't know if you would be
interested in the Atari versions of FS II. |
11/02/02 |
Steve Ferris |
When I can borrow a camera again I will put the other
cockpit foto's on the site. |
04/01/04 |
Steve H. |
I did not see mentioned Flight Simulator
for the Timex Sinclair 1000, The program was on cassette (similar to an
audio cassette). You attached the TS 1000 to a TV, attached a tape recorder
to the TS, placed the Flight Simulator cassette into the player.
Synchronized the software with the recorder, and played a very "crude"
version of FS. |
14/01/05 |
Steve Mayer |
I have just downloaded the Apple 2
version of FS2, and am having a ball. Thank you so much. To push my luck, is
there a place where I can obtain a copy of the full instruction manual?
Also, if this is shareware, is there a place to make a modest contribution
for support of the site? Thanks |
02/11/01 |
Steve
Parkin |
I see on your site you'd like a picture of the manual for
FS 2.10 so here's a scan of the one for sale. |
16/08/02 |
Steven
Karalash |
There is a cute animation on this website, like I used to
fly on my old Apple. |
16/10/01 |
Steven
Mellor |
hope this of use to you, found this file whilst rumaging
around the net....good luck in getting it working, haven't managed myself
yet, |
20/11/01 |
Steven
Weyhrich |
I would be
VERY HAPPY to correct the info about FS-I and FS-II on my site, and if you
have pictures also, that makes it even better! Please feel free to correct
my mistakes and I'll put it up there, with credit given to you. |
15/01/05 |
Sylvain Bizoirre |
In early 1979, I did long investigations
about flight simulator history and made a page on this subject:
http://www.old-computers.com/history/detail.asp?n=49&t=4 Some of the
information comes from your site, so I included a link to your very good
site. Regarding the ZX-81 version, the first Sinclair ZX-80 was released in
Europe in February 1980, one year after the first F.S. release and 3 years
after Artwick wrote its first lines of code in 6502 assembly language.
Moreover, no software was written for the ZX-80 by other companies than
Sinclair before the computer was released. IMHO, the rest is only false
rumours spread. |
02/02/01 |
Terry H. Turner |
Nice, nice, nice |
06/01/01 |
Teun
Schuurman |
Wat een
werk, maar heel goed gedaan. |
13/10/01 |
Thomas Dankowski |
wow, your site brings back some memories =) cant wait
for the timeline / story / gallery being updated. nice screenshots and site
layout btw. |
04/06/02 |
Thomas Diderich |
Will add a link to your nice website on our “The Dutch FS
Site” |
27/05/04 |
Tiago Fonseca |
I would like to congratulate him for the excellent work
that did when telling us the history of Flight Simulator with the richest
details. Your work is really notable and among many that I researched in the
Web, yours was the most complete than I found.
I own a Brazilian site about flight simulation and it
would like your authorization integrally to translate your work for the
portuguese languaje and to put him in our site. |
05/12/04 |
Todd Kern
|
Wonderful work there! I started my FS experience with the
Commodore 64 and FSII. Over time I also bought all the scenery discs. Your
site has brought back a lot of memories.
After
downloading and watching the video, I was reminded of how the buildings
looked like they used to dance and wiggle around with each frame change. By
the way, I still have that C64 and all my FS disks...and yes, it still
works. Please..accept my thanks on a great presentation. |
24/03/02 |
Tom Gregor Sr. |
I was wondering if I employ your "The Story of Flight
Simulator" piece in my site re-construction plan? Of course you would be
credited for the article, and a reciprocal link established as well. |
05/11/04 |
Tom Harnish |
Love your site. We're currently running a
Flight Sim Art Contest;
it shows how very far we've come since the mid-70s. We'll reference your
site in our press releases if you don't mind....
Actually, didn't Bruce Artwick write his very earliest
version for the Sinclair with a Z-80 processor? I've been trying to find a
picture of one of those screens, but I know darn well the software didn't
know how to do a screenshot! |
21/10/01 |
Tom Piercy |
Loved your site! I was an Apple ][ dealer back in '79
here in UK - we thought FS was incredible. |
20/02/02 |
Tom Wismann |
I really enjoy your history of Flight Simulator. I am
looking forward to the day when there will be a version of FS4 available on
your site. |
18/10/01 |
Tonet Rivera |
I love your site! I hope you don't mind, I posted a few
"teaser" shots from you site in our Philippine Flight Simmer Group forum. |
23/02/01 |
Ton van
Leeuwen |
Gefeliciteerd met deze site. Ik heb een jaartje geleden rond gelopen met
plannen voor iets dergelijks, maar wegens chronisch tijdgebrek is het er
nooit van gekomen. |
24/09/02 |
Toni Tasic |
Also have the Mac FS2 manual for the Monochrome 512 Mac |
28/10/01 |
Tony Smith |
I have added a link to you interesting 'Flight Simulator
History Page' site from my MSFS Gateway site |
09/01/05 |
Tony Volante |
I have run the Flight Simulator User
Group-UK since I started it 11 years ago and produce it's bi-monthly
magazine Micro Aviator. Looking for an item to fill in on a page for the
next issue, due out February 1st, I found your web-site about the history of
Flight Simulation. So I have written about your web-site and the excellent
job you have done in documenting the history of our hobby. Will it be okay
if I use a few of the illustrations from your web-site in my magazine? |
14/10/01 |
Trevor Morson |
Looks great !! I love the site !! Well done...
Starting with a very interesting chapter on the "History of Flight
Simulation" with screenshots and photographs.. nice to have in book form for
sure. It brought back memories for me when I saw ASD and FS4. It evens
covers the essential add-ons used at that time. But it starts from FS1 and
it was at this point, I figured the book was worth browsing through and
actually reading, It got my interest. A hook filled with bait and I gladly
swallowed it all. This section ends with FS2002 and a nice up to date shot
of 'our' Mr. Bruce Artwick, as he looks today. |
20/04/02 |
Ulrich
Klein |
Came across
your history web site lately. Congratulation so far, it was high time for
someone doing this job. Please keep on developing the site! |
27/12/03 |
Volker
Klein |
All the best for the new year and many thanks for a brief
reply! |
17/05/03 |
Wayne Bacon |
I found your site most interesting. Interested in your
plans to have a download section. |
04/12/03 |
William Hermes |
Zijn er nog
plannen om FS History te updaten? (website is ERG informatief en boeiend). |
09/12/04 |
Xavier Cano |
Congratulations from a Flightsimmer from
Spain. I am very impressed whit your work. |
23/03/04 |
Zachariah Amela |
Just want to complement you on a great site. Brings back
memories of playing Flight Sim on an Apple IIe and C64 way back when. I look
forward to site additions. |
27/02/02 |
zx amp |
Thank you for a very nice article. I started with the
franchise in 84, ibm pcxt. I was a little disappointed to see no mention of
the tandy color computer OS9 version (about '86) |
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