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Avsim
AVSIM is a nonprofit flight simulation social networking service that focuses on ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'', ''Prepar3D'', and ''X-Plane (simulator), X-Plane''. It features a community forum, file library, and product reviews. The website is maintained by a group of volunteers. Bandwidth and equipment are paid for by donations and advertising. It is one of the world's largest flight simulation websites and provides users access to information and add-ons for the flight simulator series of games. On May 12, 2009, the website was attacked by a white hat (computer security), hacker which resulted in a catastrophic loss of data. AVSIM was able to fully recover from the hack with the help of IT support from around the world. History The publisher of AVSIM, Tom Allensworth, operated a Bulletin Board System from 1983 until approximately the fall of 1995. Initially named CAPENET because it was located in Cape Cod (a peninsula of Massachusetts) during the early 1980s, it was renamed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft Flight Simulator
''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' is a series of Flight simulation video game, flight simulator programs for MS-DOS, Classic Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was an early product in the Microsoft application portfolio and differed significantly from List of Microsoft software, Microsoft's other software, which was largely business-oriented. ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' is Microsoft's longest-running software product line, predating Windows by three years, and is one of the longest-running video game series of all time. Bruce Artwick began the development of ''Flight Simulator'' in 1977. His company, Sublogic (company), Sublogic, initially distributed it for various personal computers. In 1981, Artwick was approached by Microsoft's Alan M. Boyd who was interested in creating a "definitive game" that would graphically demonstrate the difference between older 8-bit computers, such as the Apple II, and the new 16-bit computers, such as the IBM PC, still in develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prepar3D
''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' is a series of flight simulator programs for MS-DOS, Classic Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was an early product in the Microsoft application portfolio and differed significantly from Microsoft's other software, which was largely business-oriented. ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' is Microsoft's longest-running software product line, predating Windows by three years, and is one of the longest-running video game series of all time. Bruce Artwick began the development of ''Flight Simulator'' in 1977. His company, Sublogic, initially distributed it for various personal computers. In 1981, Artwick was approached by Microsoft's Alan M. Boyd who was interested in creating a "definitive game" that would graphically demonstrate the difference between older 8-bit computers, such as the Apple II, and the new 16-bit computers, such as the IBM PC, still in development. In 1982, Artwick's company licensed a version of ''Flight Simulator'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Microsoft Flight Simulator
''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' began as a set of articles on computer graphics, written by Bruce Artwick throughout 1976, about flight simulation using 3-D graphics. When the editor of the magazine told Artwick that subscribers were interested in purchasing such a program, Artwick founded Sublogic Corporation to commercialize his ideas. At first the new company sold flight simulators through mail order, but that changed in January 1979 with the release of ''Flight Simulator'' (FS) for the Apple II. They soon followed this up with versions for other systems and from there it evolved into a long-running series of computer flight simulators. Sublogic flight simulators First generation (Apple II, TRS-80) :− January 1980 for Apple II :− Later 1980 for TRS-80 Second generation (Color Computer 3, Apple II, C64, Atari 8-bit) :− December 1983 for Apple II :− June 1984 for Commodore 64 :− October 1984 for Atari 8-bit computers :− Sometime in 1987 for Color Computer 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
