Sublogic Corporation (stylized as subLOGIC) is an American

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company. It was formed in 1977 by

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, and incorporated in 1978 by Artwick's partner Stu Moment as Sublogic Communications Corporation. Sublogic is best known as the creator of the ''Flight Simulator'' series, later known as ''

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'', but it also created other video games such as '' Night Mission Pinball'', ''

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'', and ''Adventure on a Boat''; educational software; and an Apple II graphics library.

History

Sublogic released the

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program ''

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'' for the

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and the TRS-80 in 1979, followed by the more popular and widely ported ''Flight Simulator II (Sublogic), Flight Simulator II'' in 1983, and Jet (video game), ''Jet'' in 1985. In 1982, ''Flight Simulator'' was licensed to

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, and through 2006 Microsoft released major updates to ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' approximately every three years. A reboot of the series was announced in 2019, simply titled ''

'', released in 2020. Sublogic also produced software other than flight simulators, including children's educational software, 3D graphics software for

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, the A2-3D1 animation library for the Apple II, the X-1

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and 3D graphics software for

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s, and '' Night Mission Pinball'' (1982) which was originally for the Apple II and ported to the

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, and

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Denouement

Bruce Artwick left Sublogic in 1988 to form BAO Ltd. (Bruce Artwick Organization), retaining the copyright to ''Flight Simulator'', which they continued to develop. BAO and the copyright to ''Flight Simulator'' were acquired by

in December 1995. After Artwick's departure, Sublogic continued under the ownership of Stu Moment, who produced '' Flight Assignment: A.T.P.'' in 1990. It specializes in simulating passenger airliners, using a scoring method to determine the performance of the user. Sublogic began a new flight simulator, but in late 1995 was acquired by Sierra, which completed the program and released it as Pro Pilot in 1997. Moment continues to run the present Sublogic Corporation as a generic simulation company, in addition to being an airshow display pilot with his Classic Airshow company.

Games developed

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History

Denouement

Games developed

See also

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