FS5.1 on DOS. Remember the Config.sys and Autoexec.bat files that had to be run to make it all work?
Then every iteration of the program since plus occasional forays into ProPilot, Fly! and X Plane.
FS2 on my Atari ST. The framerate was a slideshow, I have no idea how I ever managed to fly anywhere.
I even bought some addon scenery in the form of the Hawaiian Adventure.
MSFS 5.0 for DOS, during the 3DFX days (the older among us know what this meant 
) I had ProPilot 99 which supported 3DFX. Back to MSFS with 2000 …
Flight Simulator II on PC, saw it running…it was love at first sight and was hooked. I bought a 286 computer in 1986 along with FSII. Later when Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 came out in 1988 I purchased a 386… All the money I worked after school basically went into computers and flight sim software for a few years. Keyboard and mouse controls.
I have purchased every version since then, also bought a while back Flight Simulator 1.0 to have a full collection. I slo flew Flight Assignment ATP (my favourite for many years) and ProPilot.
When ai airplane traffic was added I remember watching the sky on the screen full of flashing red and white strobes/ lights on the traffic on the ground and in the air.
I was in a group called ProjectAI. Schedules, liveries and models for ai traffic were created to add so much realism to our FS.
It is so amazing to see the technology today used in all aspects of MSFS, every day it gets better.
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