Retro Flightsim Blog (by me)

Hi folks,

I started a little blog where I will write from time to time about my experiences while replaying old combat flightsims. If anyone is interessted, here's the link:

Retro Flightsim Blog

Jens

P.S. Feel free to critisize or to tell what could be made better. Please don't be to hard on me, it's my first blog ;-)

I liked it and I bookmarked it. I am usually a bit disappointed when looking back at old "goldies", they don't look like I remembered them ;)

Jens,

Cool, Funny thing...I remember ( since I am 70 ) all the old flight sims. But at the time I did not realize that folks in other countries were also into flight sims. I was really impressed by the Flanker series...for the Amiga which I had. I think I still have 95% of all the flight sims ever released. I have the first sim released for the TRS 80 and also still have all the computers that they ran on.

I remember wondering, "How was it that the best simulator was developed in, at the time, the Soviet Union??" I thought in that country, at that time, the general public did not have access to computers. And an Amiga????

How did they get their hands on an Amiga???

Laz

@lazduc: There was a Flanker Simulator for the Amiga? I thought I had played every single Amiga flight sim. Are you sure you're remembering that correctly? A Google search gives no relevant results whatsoever.

@jens198: Great! Bookmarked. Going to start reading now.

edit: F-16 Combat Pilot was probably my favourite of the Amiga flight sims, btw. Delighted to see it again. I couldn't tell you how many times I read the manual cover to cover. :)

Nice work Jens.

I used to "play" F16 combat pilot on the C64, but it was so confusing to me I had no clue what to do! Still, I loaded it up now and again to see if I could do any better and enjoy the cool art work and cockpit! Looking forward to the 8 Bit screens 8) .

Hey KesMonkey,

I just dug up some of my Amiga flight sims. Here is what I found....

F-18 Interceptor, F-16 Combat Pilot (EA), Jet, Harrier Combat (Mindscape), Mig-29 (Domark), Falcon, F-29 Retaliator (Ocean) F-15,....Got a few boxes of others somewhere but I think you are correct...I must be having a senior moment...lol... I remember playing a game that I thought was Flanker, on the Amiga....I just looked and I have SSI Flanker..versions 1.0, 2.0, 2.5 and Su-27 Squadron Commander's Edition but they are all for Windows 95.

I am going to look again...but you are probably correct I am probably confusing Mig-29 for the Flanker. Been a while...lol.

Lazduc

KesMonkey,

Just too add...all the about titles are on 3.5 in floppys except the Su 27 Squadron Commander's edition....it is on a CD...by SSI.

Laz

I was still impressed that a group in the Soviet Union, during that time, cold war time, could develop such a great simulator. I just purchased a Amiga 3000 to finish my collection...I have the 500, 1000, 2000, 3000 now, and the 4000, and the 1200. A fellow who is a member of the old retro club I go to gave me 4 boxes of Amiga software....I would estimate there are over 10,000 (ten thousand) disks.

I think about one fourth of those are video software for the Video Toaster.

Laz

Danke Jens

Enjoyed reading it as it's always good to look back on the good old days!

Thanks for the blog Jens, I'll be sure to keep an eye on this.

I remember trying to run the Combat Pilot on my Atari ST and seeing the pilot image shown as the loading screen, but then it failed because apparently it needed 1 MB of RAM, while my Atari had (or has as it's still in working shape actually) 512 kB only.

Some amiga demos

https://www.youtube.com/user/rotareneg/videos

Love it, my favourite was F22 ADF dropping JDAMs on specific gulf buildings and fightin in and out.

Loved the way the Airfields projected your approach on the hud making you fly through a series of square guides.

Nice blog Jens, i played most of them F16, F15 Strike Eagle II , but most of all the F-19 Stealth Fighter. But its true that when i see vids of it now they dont seem as real, as i remember them.. must be getting old:)