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metahacker ([personal profile] metahacker) wrote in [personal profile] mmcirvin 2020-09-01 05:34 am (UTC)

I, too, spent many hours playing FS on my ST (along with F-16 Falcon, which taught me it was maddeningly hard to dogfight)...

My grandfather used to joke that if I was ever on a plane and the pilots were suddenly incapacitated--say, Airplane!-style--I would rush into the cockpit and exclaim, "It's okay! I know how to fly this! Now, where's the mouse?"

Ah, memories.

ETA: Some of it must have stuck as I was able to successfully take off and land a little prop plane in a full-cockpit simulation. Not anywhere like a jet, but it felt nice to be back in the seat.

Hatari can also emulate a 32 MHz Atari TT, which plays this game at a pretty sweet frame rate--Flight Simulator was intelligent enough that for the most part it didn't rely on the processor clock for timing, so it adapts smoothly.

Huh! Nice.

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