3+ Years ago in FS

[dharris]

I can remember back when everything was file sharing over dial-up. You had to find numbers in your area, and log on and upload a new file for every four or five files you took. So many changes, love being able to puruse files around the whole world now. Problem is now, I spend more time locating new files and collecting than I do flying!

 

[Panther_99FS]

I was playing Doom online via a 12$/month bulletin board @ 9600baud...(Or was it 14.4 :ques: )

(Baud=unknown word for the young folks) :d

 

[dharris]

Yeah, I upgraded to a 14.4 modem, now that was moving! for back then anyways. Lots of stuff on the old bulletin boards. I was using an ibm 7.7 mhz machine, we built and it had not one but two 3.5 inch drives, and of course no hard drives. You did not need one back then, you put in your program files on the diskette and ran everything from there.

 

[bkeske]

One of the earlier sites dedicated to file downloads, and one of my favorites, was the Comox Valley guys. It was kinda sad when they finally abandoned the site.

 

[gera]

Fooling around with computers since 1969, I fell in love with my Commodore 64 the day I saw it!!!!and soon joined a club where we traded programs every weekend. Bought the "Keylock" BBS program and with my youngest son set it up from 10 PM to 12PM each night....I think I made my best friend then with him!!!...we have been buddies since then. He followed my steps and is now a successful 3D commercial designer/producer making all kind of movies, ads, commercials etc.....But, we always remember when we got our first sim around 1987 or so for the 64 and also one for the Atari computer........it was fun all the way. I would come home from a long day with Wang´s 2000 software development and run into his room to play with the 64!!!!!!....I still have have the habit, first thing I do when I get home is turn on the PC!!!!!!....
Flying FS95 was so much fun, was it the one with the wire planes and panel?????.....In 1975 I had bought a Piper Cherokee and leaned to fly, not in it!!!, I started in a Cessna 152 of all things (?), great aircraft, so to me the natural thing in a computer was a sim............the most important thing, and probably why I "love" all my Sims is that by them I got to be my son´s best friend and vice versa......Can anyone ask better of a Sim?????........we still fly together when he comes home with my 3 year old grandson and sits with me while his dad takes off in a C-130 (his favorite) and rumbles around the clouds and blue sky........................
OH!!!! I hate Dialup!!!!!!!......lost so many downloads I don´t want to remember..................

 

[stovall]

For me my first real daily sim fix came with Netwings. Seeing what was new in the download section was a must every day. This was and remained a first class operation. Thanks goes to Netwings for getting me started. European Air War was my first real combat flight sim, I still have the install disc. Somehow just can't seem to throw it away. From then on WWII Fighters, Combat Flight Simulator and Combat Flight Simulator II. When CFSII came out I gave my first try at painting. I decided on an A6M2 zero and painted an aircraft on the Hiryu the morning of December 7th 1941. I actually published the paint scheme and heard back from someone right away. This person said I had painted his father's aircraft and thanks to me he could fly his dad's airplane in a flight simulator. He told me I was doing more for world peace than I could imagine. That is all I needed to hear and I was off to the races.

From there I teamed up with a guy named Graham in Australia and someone who is still around named Krazy (Hermann Boltz). We designed, painted and put the effects on many Combat Flight Simulator II aircraft always having great fun with every production. Because of this hobby I have made friends with wonderful people all over the world. What could be better.

Those were the days and they still are.