And people complain about the frame rates today. 
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I remember playing that when I was a kid and wondering what it would be like in the future. Here we are in the future. Whatās next?
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Spike-free buildings and planes with working autopilots would be a good start:-)
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Iām sure weāll get there. I hope it doesnāt take as long as it did from 1979 to now 
You young whipper snappers do not know how good you have it, back in my day we would have given anything for a building, spiked or not, and we had to make our own planes from paper mache and old beer bottle caps ā¦
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I started with Sublogic. Iāve been through every iteration of flight simulators since then, and particularly proud of enduring the enormous frustration of trying to squeeze some better eye-candy from LM and LR over the past 4 years. MSFS was supposed to save the day- but 6 months out, here we are, STILL. Rant over:-)
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Elon Musk and his brain implants!
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Good things come to those who wait. Too bad Iām impatient, but Iām still having a blastāin VR
Oh youāre right, Iām enjoying myself- thereās plenty to do in the sim to keep me occupied. The first year in a new sim is always kind of wonky. I was just hopeful that this time round the developers would have learned from past experiences. But, it is what it is. Couldnāt bob in the water with sailboats and land on docked aircraft carrier in San Diego in P3D haha.
Iāve had a few moments, when the weather and lighting was perfect, where I was absolutely floored. That was on a flight from the tip of South America going north. I think most of us one at some point will have those moments that really connect you to the simulator. I am hooked
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This is the first I remember and that I owned. Sinclair was my first computer and the flight sim was my favorite game.
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Those marketing photos look exciting. Back then you had to use your imagination quite a bit.
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Be interested to know what sort of flight āsimulatorā Leonardo invented? He drew up various plans for real machines (that probably would not have worked) but I have never read about a simulator??
100% the same for me !! LG Rolando
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Love the box illustrations on the first lot of sims that came out. They looked so real until you loaded the floppy and got Cyan and Magenta lines 
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Finally the sim resembles the tin. Iām glad I started youngā¦
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And those plans, when gathered together, simulated flight, albeit in his mind, approximately, on paper and in an abstract way, but it did simulate whatever he wanted to simulate. For example if you have two mangoes and someone else gave you two more and you wanted to find out the total number of mangoes you have now, you can simulate that scenario using either pen and paper or make a highly interactive version of the same simulation using C++ and Unreal Engine.
It did:
LEONARDO Leonardo da Vinci Glider- Flight Science and Technology - University of Liverpool
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The first āflightā simulator I used was a lunar-landing game on a programmable Texas Instrument calculator, in the days before home computers.
This was of course Space Flight rather than aeronautics, but the principles are much the same - colliding your ship with the ground at a low enough velocity to come out alive.
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Yes mine too. I remember going to the computer shop with my Dad and him buying me the game/sim. I realise now it was nearly 8 pounds, back when that was a lot of money. I spent far more on becoming a helicopter commercial pilot in real life later.
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Pretty sure the topic author was talking about modern Flight Simulator programs. Using your logic, when cavemen looked at birds and thought about flying they were āsimulatingā and therefor were first