JT-3D's Flight Simulator comparison page.
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On this page I show comparason screenshots of the various versions of Flight Sim from over the years. Originally, FSII came with Chicago, New York, Seattle and Los Angeles areas and that was it. Much later, they started coming out with scenery areas that were terrible but covered the rest of the U.S. I only bought one. That was the west coast, #3. For some reason they did'nt have the Texas area scenery disk in Texas stores. Odd marketing strategy, that is. Anyway, I found roms for the other areas so I plan to get more shots once I get time to explore. For now, there are only 3 areas, Martha's Vineyard, Mt. Ranier and a pic of Seattle, and a few in New York. These views are as close to the same direction, altitude and location as I can get. I plan have more variety but wanted to get this page laid out first.
I now have FS2004 but graphically it doesn't differ greatly from FS2002 so I don't know if I'll add it to the comparison. BTW, the site links are spread across the bottom of the page like a stick of butter on a hot sidewalk so as not to make this page any wider. Any requests or complaints or if you think this page is boring and a waste of time and I'm and idiot for wasting my time like this let me know. Finally, let me say thanks to Bruce Artwick who invented flightsimming. I hope he is getting royalties from MS for Flightsim. |
Here are some shots of FS1 running on the Apple emulator. It's a small area. In fact the whole area is included in FS2 in the WW1 area. |
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Martha's Vineyard
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Mt. Rainier
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Seattle
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New York Harbor
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The Statue of Liberty
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New York, N.Y.
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La Guardia (KLGA)
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Goldengate Bridge
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LinksLinks for other flightsim history sites. Flight Simulator History is a new and still being built, history of FS page. Pretty good. New link for the above site. It's really come along in the last decade. I'll leave the old link so those who want to see the original site can feed it into the Wayback Machine at Archive.org. Czech Flightsim history page. FS on various systems. Very good site. Migman would be a very cool site but it's only avaible by subscription. Too bad because there is alot of stuff there about the old sims, not just FS but most everything that flies on a computer. But I guess Migman doesn't believe that information should be free. Oh well, have a look if you're interested. |
Well, I hope you have enjoyed my little compilation. I do not wish to detract from anyone's fond memories of FSII by comparing it to todays flightsims and will take nothing away from Bruce Artwick and Sublogic for creating Flight Simulator. It was great at the time and I spent many an hour flying from one place to the next. I learned navigation in FSII, had many an IFR flight just watching the nav pointers waiting for time to turn, the whole time nothing but white in the windshield. No autopilot, which I swear by now, but you could get it trimmed to fly level which is why the reality level was easier than the 'easy' level. The hardware of the time really limited what FS could do. It got about 1 or 2 frames a second (on the C=64) which, today, is concidered 'unflyable'. Well, I and thousands of others proved that to be wrong by flying hundreds or thousands of hours with it. We tried to ignore the bad things and focused on the good points of the sim and ended up with a great expierience. It had many of the things FS has now, multi level weather, winds, 'easter eggs', seasonal changes for dawn, dusk, night and day. It was a great product and you can thank the fans of FS2 for the current versions of FS which is probably enjoyed by millions today. Thank Bruce Artwick, not Bill Gates, for flightsim. Now, go fly something! Your host. |
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