Caspet Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Hi all. Just wondering what PC spec you were using for your first flight sim. Mine in 1992 (to run Falcon 3) was a 386DX 40Mhz with 4 gig of ram 14" monitorand an 85 meg hard drive (of which i was told I would never, in a hundred years fill up (bloody sales people). before my first P.C I had a Speccy 48k and an Amiga 500 before that ran the likes of FS Pilot, Falcon, F16 Fighter Pilot ect. But what did you all start with? would be nice to share :thumbup: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee Muhammad Ali-(Cassius Clay) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
EtherealN Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Amiga 500 with 512kb memory extension card that I used to play (amongst other things) Fighting Falcon and Knights of the Sky. After that a Pentium 75 on which I played a lot of Chuck Yeager. :) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester
Caspet Posted March 25, 2012 Author Posted March 25, 2012 Good God Knights of the Sky....Ahhh Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee Muhammad Ali-(Cassius Clay) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
sobek Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 (edited) Hmm, i guess that was a 486 with Novalogics Comanche. At least that's the first flightsim i remember playing. Edited March 25, 2012 by sobek Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
EtherealN Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Ooooh, the Novalogic games were awesome. I bought a pack that had the second Comanche game and the Werewolf game as well, with online compatiblity. So much fun. :D [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester
sobek Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Yeah, that voxel engine was pretty amazing for it's time. I have some fond memories of playing while my brother played FNMs Angel Dust up and down on his stereo. :) Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
Mustang Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 First PC was a 486 SLC33 CPU based machine with 4mb of 30 pin SIMM memory and a 1mb VESA Local Bus videocard (sound was through PC speaker lol) I remember the first sim i ran on it was DI Tornado and thinking how amazing it looked and ran compared to the Amiga 600 version i had before :)
cichlidfan Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 C-64 was the first. If that doesn't count then the first real PC was a 486-66 with 8MB and the CD drive cost me over $300!:cry: 1994 I believe. ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
sturm21 Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 Hi all. Just wondering what PC spec you were using for your first flight sim. Mine in 1992 (to run Falcon 3) was a 386DX 40Mhz with 4 gig of ram 14" monitorand an 85 meg hard drive (of which i was told I would never, in a hundred years fill up (bloody sales people). before my first P.C I had a Speccy 48k and an Amiga 500 before that ran the likes of FS Pilot, Falcon, F16 Fighter Pilot ect. But what did you all start with? would be nice to share :thumbup: Was that 4 gig or 4 Mb of RAM? Did any of your flight sims come on multiple discs? I remember some games like King's Quest in the 80s had 12 to 14 floppies.
lobo Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 Amiga 500 with 512kb memory extension card that I used to play (amongst other things) Fighting Falcon and Knights of the Sky. After that a Pentium 75 on which I played a lot of Chuck Yeager. :) Amiga here also. Spent a lot of time with F18 interceptor and Birds of Prey! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O1Wes7Othk&feature=youtube_gdata_player Still have the old Amiga in a closet! Lobo's DCS A-10C Normal Checklist & Quick Reference Handbook current version 8D available here: http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/172905/
159th_Viper Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 £400 over-the-counter PC World special back in 2006. Salesman conveniently neglected to tell me that the integrated graphics chipset was useless for anything. Not to worry - advised to buy an ATI card. Salesman conveniently neglected to tell me that current PSU useless to run PC with new card. OK - irksome......Get new PSU. Apparently RAM of 1GB just not good enough - get 1GB more. At this stage wife is beginning to get antsy - I am blissfully unaware as I am whipping A$$ with my Ilyushin Il-2 and a trusty Cyborg Evo :D Rest is History......... Novice or Veteran looking for an alternative MP career? Click me to commence your Journey of Pillage and Plunder! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] '....And when I get to Heaven, to St Peter I will tell.... One more Soldier reporting Sir, I've served my time in Hell......'
RIPTIDE Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 Wife? Do they come with a USB connection? Lol [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Eddie Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 Amiga 500 was the real first sim system, back in the mid 90's for DiD's Tornado and a few other, the names of which escape me. First windows PC was a 450Mhz Intel with 256mb RAM and a 16Mb Voodoo 3 Gfx card and Falcon 4.0. Both bought in '98 shortly after Falcon's release.
CDR Spectre Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 Wife? Do they come with a USB connection? Lol Don't we wish???? Anyway....first computer to play flight sims on was probably my C-64 that I played Project: Stealth Fighter and Gunship (both from Microprose) on. After that, I had what I like to call the "lost years" (mainly console) then in the 90s I got my first "real" PC which was a Pentium 133 with 8 MB of RAM. Only "flight sim" I played on it was the original TIE Fighter. Then I moved up to my current machine and discovered the Nirvana that is the DCS series. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] It's not the fall that gets you. It's the Godawful sudden stop at the end.
cichlidfan Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 Wife? Do they come with a USB connection? Lol Since the arrival of the cell phone, they, like the unmarried variety, are wireless.:D ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
Ratfink Posted March 27, 2012 Posted March 27, 2012 I had a 486DX2 laptop during uni days (1996 or 97) that ran X-Wing pretty well. Then in 98 I think got myself a PIII 450Mhz / 128MB RAM / Riva TNT from Tiny Computers and it ran Falcon 4.0, Gunship!, Apache vs Havoc, Comanche vs Hokum, Jane's F/A-18. CORSAIR 5000D AIRFLOW Mid Tower | AMD RYZEN 7 9800X3D | G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo EXPO RGB 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz | ASUS ROG X870E-E GAMING WIFI | Gigabyte RTX5080 Gaming OC 16GB | 4TB Lexar NM790 M.2 PCIe 4.0 | Seasonic Prime TX-1000 1000W 80 Plus Titanium Modular Power Supply | Lian Li Galahad II Trinity AIO 360mm | Meta Quest Pro | TM HOTAS Warthog | Saitek Combat Rudder Pedals | Win 11 Home | Asus PG348Q 34" 3440x1440 Monitor | Bose Companion 3 2.1 Sound
walker450 Posted March 28, 2012 Posted March 28, 2012 IBM PS/2 486 25mhz 4MB RAM 256MB HD 3.5" and 5.25" disks Tons of fun playing Aces Over Europe, Gunship 2000, MIG-29 Fulcrum, and ABRAMS Speedpad for Inputs | My Simpit | Joystick Damper Mod
Sierra99 Posted April 22, 2012 Posted April 22, 2012 Commodore 64... Microprose - Stealth Fighter. And I still have it in my attic! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Primary Computer ASUS Z390-P, i7-9700K CPU @ 5.0Ghz, 32GB Patriot Viper Steel DDR4 @ 3200Mhz, ZOTAC GeForce 1070 Ti AMP Extreme, Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe drives (1Tb & 500 Gb), Windows 10 Professional, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS, Thrustmaster Warthog Stick, Thrustmaster Cougar Throttle, Cougar MFDs x3, Saitek Combat Rudder Pedals and TrackIR 5. -={TAC}=-DCS Server Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3, i7-3770K CPU @ 3.90GHz, 32GB G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 @ 1600Mhz, ZOTAC GeForce® GTX 970.
msalama Posted April 22, 2012 Posted April 22, 2012 Some Pacific theatre WW2 CFS for the Mac if memory serves. And it was actually pretty good, but I've still forgotten the name by now... The computer was a Mac Quadra 400 which, for its time, was a fast bugger indeed ;) The DCS Mi-8MTV2. The best aviational BBW experience you could ever dream of.
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