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AussieMan said:
James I thought that Flight Simulator on the 64/Amiga was Sublogic by Bruce Artwick. They got gobbled up by Microsoft.

I also had Flight Simulator II and a programme called Apollo18.

Cheers
Pat
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You are right, now that I think about it. I even had scenery disks for my part of the country; what little 'scenery' there was.

The late 1980s to early 1990s was an interesting time for computers -- the IBM Mainframe was still dominant, and Unix was out there but few knew about it, since it didn't run on PCs yet.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:eek:ffice" /><o:p></o:p>
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Apple still had the Apple II as well as the Macintosh, IBM had DOS and OS/2, Microsoft was the early days of Windows, and Commodore had the C-64, C-128, and Amiga.<o:p></o:p>

I worked in a computer store from about 1987 to 1988. We had software sections for DOS, Apple II, Commodore, Macintosh and Amiga; we sold strictly IBM clones (remember "Leading Edge"?) Love or hate Windows, from a software development and sales point of view, it has made things so much easier -- write one version for Windows, and at least 90% of the machines out there can run it. No more writing your own device drivers, either.
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The first version of Windows I tried out... 2.1. And I rented it; during a very short period when software rentals were tried and quickly outlawed, another 1990s thing.

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