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Civil flight sims from the 1980’s and earlier

747
  • 747
  • date_range 1981
  • content_paste 747 was a civil flight sim created for the Atom computer, running in 12K of RAM ( !!!) in 1981. To give you an idea, 12k is about the size of a small web page these days. Or a few pages of text.
  • tagCivil
3-D Helicopter Simulator
Acrojet
  • Acrojet
  • date_range 1985
  • precision_manufacturing Microprose  
  • content_pasteAcro Jet was released in 1985 on the Sinclair Spectrum.
  • tagCivil
Aero-Products Flight Simulator
Air Manager
  • Air Manager
  • date_range
  • content_paste"Air Manager is an application which allows you to create your own 2D flight simulator panels. You can run it on the same computer as your flight simulator, or on a seperate computer. It will automatically connect to your X-plane, FSX or Prepar3d flight simulator on your local network."
  • tagCivilAdd-on
Air Manager
  • Air Manager
  • date_range
  • content_paste"Air Manager is an application which allows you to create your own 2D flight simulator panels. You can run it on the same computer as your flight simulator, or on a seperate computer. It will automatically connect to your X-plane, FSX or Prepar3d flight simulator on your local network."
  • tagCivilAdd-on
Airline Adventures
Airline Adventures
Airport Scenery Designer 20
Airport Scenery Designer 20
Apollo 18
Aviator
Azores & Madeira
Beseige
Chuck Yeager(s) Advanced Flight Trainer
DC-10 Collection
Dreamfleet Cardinal
E-Z Landmark
Flight Deck II
Flight Path 737
Flight Sim Toolkit
Flight Sim Toolkit 2
Flight Simulator 1
  • Flight Simulator 1
  • date_range 1981
  • precision_manufacturing SuBLogic  
  • content_pasteFlight Simulator 1 was one of the first flight sims released for personal computers. A whole generation of flight sim fans were hooked for life on the wire frame graphics and the "dogfighting" in the Sopwith Camel. The graphical splendour rested mainly in the mind of the player - but it was a beginning! This was my very first exposure to flying on a personal computer and I was hooked!
  • tagCivil
Flight Simulator II
  • Flight Simulator II
  • date_range 1983
  • precision_manufacturing SuBLogic  
  • content_pasteMichael Woodley reported: "At the time, there were three 6502 versions of FSII. There was one for the Apple II, one for the Commodore 64 and one for the Atari 800. When the the Atari ST and Amiga were introduced (which ran the Motorolla 68000 processor), new versions were released for those machines, for the Tandy and for the MacIntosh through Microsoft. The versions of FSII for the 6502 processor DID have solid filled graphics not just wireframe."
  • tagCivil
Flight Simulator Series
Flight Unlimited II
Flight Unlimited III
FLY
Fly the Best
Flying Club 2
Flying Club Duchess
Flying Club R44
Flying Club R44
Flying Club X
Flying Club X
FS 2002 Sky Ranch
FS Action Scenery
FS Assist
FS Assist 2002
FS Clouds 98
FS Design Studio
FS Flight Deck
FS LogBook
FS Maintenance
FS Scenery Disk
FS Scenery Disk
FS Scenery Enhancer
FS SoundScape
FS Traffic 2
Georender 1
Georender 2
Georender 3
Giants of the Sky 747-400
Grand Canyon
Greatest Airliners: 737-400
Greatest Airplanes: Archer
GS Lakes
GS Lakes
GS NWE
GS NWE
Guardians of the Sky
Guardians of the Sky
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hi-Tech Aircraft
Iron Knuckles DC-9-30
Italy 98
Japan
MegaScenery 02
MegaScenery 04
MegaScenery 05
MegaScenery USA Pacific North West
Merlin
MG-Sim Cayo Largo Havana
MG-Sim Genoa Arrivals 1
Microflight
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 downloads
Microsoft Flight Simulator 3
Microsoft Flight Simulator 4
Microsoft Flight Simulator 5
Microsoft Flight Simulator Advanced Scenery Designer
Microsoft New York
Microsoft New York
Microsoft Paris
Microsoft Scenery Pack
National Parks
Neptune (Alphasim)
Orcas Island
PFD Ireland
PFD Ireland
Phoenix 757-200
Phoenix 757-200
Phoenix Bonanza
Phoenix Bonanza
Pilot Wings 64
PMDG B1900C
Private Pilot
Private Pilot Training
Pro Pilot
Professional Flight Collection Vol.II The Next Gen
Project 1
Project Stealth Fighter
Rescue Air 911
San Francisco
Scenery Balearic Islands
Scenery Canary Islands
Scenery Collection California
Scenery Collection Great Britain
Search and Rescue 2
Search and Rescue 2
Silicon Graphics Flight Sim
  • Silicon Graphics Flight Sim
  • date_range
  • content_paste"... we hunched around an old IRIS 2400 Turbo playing this amazing flight simulator game from Silicon Graphics, Inc.". Modern personal computers in the 90's (were) now as powerful as graphics workstations of the 80's."
  • tagCivilCombat
Solo Flight
Space Shuttle
Space Shuttle by Captain Sim
Space Shuttle Mission
Stunt Flyer
Super 80
Super Huey III
Tahiti
Tahiti Scenery
VFR Real Scenery
VFR Real Scenery London
Visual Flight Plans UK
VLJ Business Jet
VOZ AI Pack
WA 747-400 777-200
X-Plane
X-Plane 08
ZX-81 Flight Sims
  • ZX-81 Flight Sims
  • date_range 1980
  • content_pasteType in a flight sim from a magazine article? Yes, that was computer flight simulation in the early 1980s.
  • tagCivil
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