Aviator

"Hey.. who needs texture mapping? Who needs colour come to that... Aviator allowed you to pilot your Spitfire under bridges and fly upside-down - even to shoot some invading aliens."

Image and text Source - http://arrgh.rubberfeet.org/hardware/bbcmicro/. Used by permission of Mat Simpson.

"One of his (Geoff Crammond's) early releases was Aviator, a Spitfire simulator marketed for the BBC Micro by Acornsoft. Although it had monochrome Mode 5 graphics and few of the ameneties of modern simulators for more powerful computers, Aviator was of unparalleled quality at the time of its release (c. 1983), with a realistic flight model that included g-forces that could tear the wings off in a dive. Applying forward pressure on the analog stick restored the wings, however!

Bonus points could be earned for flying among city blocks or under bridges, particularly upside down."

Source - Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Crammond

I've got them but not the Archimedes... :)

Aviator is wire-frame white lines on black. The city is 4 or five boxes, there's a stick-bridge. Some UFO unfriendlies in there for fun. An absolute blast flying under the bridge upside down.

Interdictor is the full business - color, an airfield, trucks, pyramids :) Very fast and difficult to get kills on the enemy triple A.

These two must be among the first - I'd be interested to hear what you know about them and their provenance. Interdictor was Simis, I think...

Peter O'Boyle | oxford1971 att cwcom dott net