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Mick said:
It was great until they totally messed it up a year or so ago.
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To be honest, they way they moved on to the new forum software was badly managed and they did not involve the community. Now if you compare that to the work that was done here, it's the complete opposite. The preparatory work that was invested in by @Dangerousdave26 before the move, and the copying of the file library with loads of volunteers all meant that the whole move was done efficiently and that it was supported by the community. Those things are important.

I'm not even beginning about the changes that have been and will be done by the new owners of flightsim.com.

I do however think that, for the members of flightsim.com that came to SOH, it is important to let bygones be bygones. No sense in crying over spilt milk as they say. But after all these years, I can imagine that it must be hard on you guys.

Cheers,

Priller
 
Priller said:
I do however think that, for the members of flightsim.com that came to SOH, it is important to let bygones be bygones. No sense in crying over spilt milk as they say. But after all these years, I can imagine that it must be hard on you guys.
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Indeed. Yes things change for better or for worse and the management or users have to live and accept the changes or consequences whether better or worse. However the hardest thing is some faithful members were banned for basically zero reason (no abuse, or name calling, etc). Sad and odd some might think asking questions is a personal attack.

But anyway, on with the show and back to flying. :cool::wiggle::icon30:
 
My first sim was FS98, acquired in spring '98, and I soon found flightsim; it became a near daily stop for me, even more so since I retired. Still recall my first download, a Luscombe Sedan, tan with red trim. I flew that all over the world. So, yes I will miss them, but life moves on, the only constant is change. I do not wish them success, I do not wish them failure; they no longer exist for me.

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
 
Well, FS98 was my first "sim". But previously there was War Eagles, SWOTL, Red Baron, Aces Over Europe, Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, A-10 Tank Killer, Jane's Fighters, Wings Of Glory, Su-27, EF2000, and probably some I've long forgotten.
 
Anyone remember Birds Of Prey for DOS? :wavey:
Most of the aircraft were *MEH* (IMO), but it had a really nice X-15 you had to launch from a B-52. 😁
 
DOS?

Sure, that would be my 1980s Leading Edge Model D. My first PC, and the first PC I ever upgraded. I added in a mail order 20 MB Shamrock Leprecard (a hard drive on a card) so I didn't have to boot off the 5.25" floppy drive. The oldest flightsim I recall running on that PC was JETFIGHTER 2, and that would have been in 1990? I still have the box, disks (3.5" and 5.25"), instructions, etc. for Jet Fighter 2! I thought the 3D angular design of the box itself was next level back then and even by today's standards.

Tommy

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jgf said:
My first sim was FS98, acquired in spring '98, and I soon found flightsim; it became a near daily stop for me, even more so since I retired. Still recall my first download, a Luscombe Sedan, tan with red trim. I flew that all over the world. So, yes I will miss them, but life moves on, the only constant is change. I do not wish them success, I do not wish them failure; they no longer exist for me.

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
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My first sim was CFS1. CFS 2 and 3 had already been released, but on the crappy rig that I had then, only CFS1 would run. Great fun though. Tinkering with PC's and flightsim is what got me interested in IT, and that is my job now.

After getting out of the army and giving up my commission, I fell into a deep black hole. You could say that flight sim saved my life.

Priller
 
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jgf said:
Well, FS98 was my first "sim". But previously there was War Eagles, SWOTL, Red Baron, Aces Over Europe, Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, A-10 Tank Killer, Jane's Fighters, Wings Of Glory, Su-27, EF2000, and probably some I've long forgotten.
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Janes WW2 fighter's, i liked that one, if you sat on the runway long enough, a deer would come up and look in your cockpit
 
My first flight sim was "The Flight Simulator" on a 16K zx-81 I built as a kit. it was on a cassette tape. I bet I have over a hundred hours on that thing.
 
My first flight sim was "Flight of the Old Dog" for DOS. :eagerness:
I ran all the missions then went into "roaming mode" to track down all of the SAM sites in Iran and Iraq.
It was a cool way to kill time in the barracks, along with Red Storm Rising.

Several years after I got paroled from the Navy, I got FSfW95 for all of the right reasons.
I wanted to see if I could still do "Great Circle" navs. :costumed-smiley-034
Then I found a CD full of pirated FS5 aircraft and found my (then) favorite plane, the Lockheed Jet Star II.
Some of those files needed a program called Flight Shop, which I found and installed.
I've been hooked ever since. :wiggle:
 
First 'FlightSim' was SubLogic Flight Simulator for the Apple IIc... completely unusable for the platform because of the extreme lag.

Next 'FlightSim' was LucasArts "X-Wing"... hours & hours of fun on a Toshiba x386 color laptop.

Then Microsoft Flight Simulator... 2000, 2002 and 2004.
 
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