 |
|
|
   |
||
|
To Dream, to fly - adventures in flight simming
1992 - A Harried flight Next day the Moroccan asked his friend "So.... exactly which air force does that pilot fly in? ?" It took a minute for the penny to drop, then there was laughter. "Hey, what are you laughing at man... it was a serious question!" "I had no idea... we weren't... he wasn't... he isn't... it's a game! It was a game. He was playing a game.... a computer simulation!!" |
The year was 1992 and the sim was SVGA Harrier Assault , developed by Simis and published by Domark. The cockpit was my own. I hadn't set out to mislead my visitor. I was just doing what I did most nights in the concrete bunker, climb into my cockpit in my concrete bunker and fly! Besides being an incredibly addictive sim with a dynamic environment to fly in, SVGA Harrier Assault was one of the very first to take advantage of a leap in graphics technology - SVGA graphcs. Super VGA upped the resolution from 320 x 200 pixels to a whopping 640 x 400. I say whopping because the doubling of each axis of the display meant an increase in the pixels displayed from 64,000 to 307,200. Basically the image looked 5 times better, crystal clear and suddenly rivallng the top of the line military simulators. This was incredible, this was a real breakthrough. This required a new graphics card to even run! In my case a 1 meg S3 card. We were still flying between pyramidal mountains, but they were now rendered in gorgeous pastel shades. |
|
|
||
|
The contents of this website are copyright © 1998 - 2007 by MiGMan |
||
