Mother of all polls ;)

[Duke49th]

I also never bought on of these Sims. I started with Gunship 2000 and F-117A Stealth Fighter.

[Peyoteros]

LOMAC for me, thanks to the dad, who discovered it for me! And then I shot him down... (in LOMAC), he wasn't talking to me for couple of weeks :D

Edited August 29, 2008 by Peyoteros

[VMFA117_Poko]

Flanker 1.0 - in my last year of primal school. But that wasn't my first sim. The very first I saw was Fighter Pilot on C64 and LHX on PC.

Edited August 29, 2008 by Poko24

[Kuky]

I started with LOMAC :baby:

 

hahaha! :megalol:

 

me too :smartass:

[X-man]

hahaha! :megalol:

 

me too :smartass:

That doesn't stop us from being the best of the best though! :D Actually, I started of with MSFS98, but LOMAC was my first militarty...

[deviletk]

Ok since many didnt care about this poll was about ED sims ill go ahead and throw in my first sim too wich was FS2 on Commodore 64 and then F117 stealth fighter on Amiga wich was military. Then ofcourse from ED it was LOMAC for me.

 

Regards

Alex

[Kuky]

That doesn't stop us from being the best of the best though! :D Actually, I started of with MSFS98, but LOMAC was my first militarty...

 

Actually my first flight sim was EFA2000 (I think it was called that), then there was Falcon 4.0 (never flew it online though... at that time it was all crappy dial-up :music_whistling:) short time I tried Gunship, then there was IL-2 :pilotfly: and now LockOn :joystick:

[Cosmonaut]

Flanker 2.5.:smartass:

 

My adventure began with all of these in that order.. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/f22airdominancefighter/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gsupdates&tag=updates;title;1

 

EF200 http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/ef2000/screenshots

and F22 ADF and F22 TAW.. Those were the days...

 

Wow haven't seen you in ages Instigator.. :thumbup:.. Welcome back.

[Cowboy10uk]

Wow where to start, Started on the sega master system with a little game called f16, Just a hud shooting dots at other dots :) Then moved onto the amiga, Red Baron, F18, B17 etc then onto a pc with B17 2, F14, f18, Falcon, F15, ww2 Fighters, IL2, combat flight sim, Flanker, Falcon, Gunship 2000 and the list goes on and on and on. Currently have Falcon Alllied Force and IL2 1946 installed and waiting patiently for BS which is going to blow everything else away.

[Shaman]

If anyone remembers ZX Spectrum? This is where I firstly touched a game that tried to simulate something, lol... but it was terrible.

I think first thing that got me into flying more on a personal computer was my cousins ATARI and SOLO FLIGHT.

My very first two flight sims on very first PC (PC AT) were Fighter Bomber and MS Flight Simulator 4.0 - actually these were my very first two PC games.

Edited August 29, 2008 by Shaman

[VMFA117_Poko]

SOLO FLIGHT yes! Nobody complain about poor fps those days ;)

[mibsk]

;-)

 

;-))) hehe ... loooong time ago ... LHX, ... then TFX ... then others ... ;-)

[Esac_mirmidon]

Shamandgg... Fighter Bomber was also my first Flight Simulator ¡¡¡. The Tornado, ufff, in an Amstrad CPC 6128.

[Cdr.Instigator]

Flanker 2.5.:smartass:

 

 

 

Wow haven't seen you in ages Instigator.. :thumbup:.. Welcome back.

 

 

Hey Cosmonaut...

 

I've been laying low. Put up my FC on the back burner for a while and ventured into FPS, a multitude of them. Now, I've dusted clean FC and getting back on the sattle again. I will have to refresh my fighting abilities one more time. I've been looking forward for Black Shark like all of us here. Soon enough, we will own a piece of this master piece !!!

 

Thanks for the welcome...

[Geier]

Of course it began with Flanker 2.5 in spring 2001. AFAIR, 22th of may the day when I bought this sim.

[- Piloto da Morte -]

Flanker 1.0 fill my heart :)

[Kusch]

Flanker 2.0 :)

[Shaman]

LOMAC for me, thanks to the dad, who discovered it for me! And then I shot him down... (in LOMAC), he wasn't talking to me for couple of weeks :D

 

On my very first landing in Su-27 Flanker 1.0 my father was actually doing the ATC/Approach control role :) He used to be military ATC, and thanks to his directions from behind my shoulder, my very first landing with virtual Su-27 was quite perfect :)

ah... memories...

[amalahama]

Does somebody know how to run Flanker 1.0/1.5 on WinXP?

 

Regards!!

[Yellonet]

Dosbox?

[amalahama]

Dosbox?

 

Yeah, it would be nice if it was a DOS game :D. However, I'm afraid it only runs in Win95 and above :smilewink:

 

Regards!!

[Yellonet]

doh! :doh:

 

Compatibility mode won't work either?

Maybe Win95 in VMWare?

Edited August 29, 2008 by Yellonet

[nscode]

Too slow I think

[muz]

As stated by someone else, try either compatibility mode, or you could give it a go under some form of emulator or virtualization product. Re: the latter, it should be fine as the game doesn't use hardware accelerators for 3d. Microsoft's Virtual Server and various versions of VM Ware are FREE - run it under one that supports hardware virtualization - eg: Virtual Server 2005 SP1. The system requirements for Flanker 1.0 are very low - so it should run very quickly under virtualization a product if you have a CPU that supports the intel VT or AMD-V instructions. System requirements For PC: Minimum 486 IBM compatible at 66Mhz, DOS 5.0 or higher, 8mb RAM, 1MB SVGA card, 8MB HD Space, Software using AMD-V and/or Intel-VT The following software is known to conditionally make use of virtualization technology features: * Hyper-V - Windows Server Virtualization * Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) - a Linux kernel module hypervisor * LynxSecure - Secure MILS Hypervisor from LynuxWorks Supports Intel VT-x and VT-d. * Microsoft Virtual Server — Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 supports hardware assisted virtualization.[11][12] * Microsoft Windows Server 2008 - Server 2008's ability to run multiple virtual servers requires hardware virtualization support[1] * Parallels Workstation and Parallels Desktop for Mac — lightweight hypervisor with Intel VT-x and AMD AMD-V support. * Parallels Server (Beta) — Enterprise version of Parallels Workstation and Desktop for Mac. It will provide support for Intel's second generation virtualization technology, called Virtualization Technology for Directed, or VT-d. * Padded Cell - virtual machine technology from Green Hills Software hosted on INTEGRITY real-time operating system. Supports Intel VT-x and VT-d. * Real-Time Systems RTS Real-Time Hypervisor for x86 * Sun xVM - xVM is based on Xen on x64 * VirtualBox supports both AMD-V and VT-x.[13] * Virtual Iron - Virtual Iron supports Intel VT-x and AMD-V. * VirtualLogix VLX supports Intel VT-x and VT-d. * VMware Workstation — Workstation 5.5 supports Intel VT-x.[14] * VMware Fusion - Virtualization product for Mac OS X for use on Macintosh systems equipped with Intel Core, Core 2 Duo and Xeon processors. * VMware ESX Server - Enterprise Virtualization Server, needs hardware support when running x64 and x32 virtual machine simultaneously. * VMware Server - Supports Intel VT-x and AMD-V. * Xen — Xen 3.0.2 supports Intel VT-x and AMD-V. Xen 3.2.1 supports Intel VT-d. Xen 3.3 is expected to support Intel VT-c.

[muz]

Hmmm, sorry about the seriously poor formatting there - I used the quick reply feature, so I guess it ignored a few carriage returns and line feeds - you should get the gist though :)