I was gonna mess around with ST Flight Simulator II and post some more screenshots, but, durn it, my Hatari installation is more b0rked than ever. Don't know what's up with that thing--it was really stable for a while there.
I recently looked up some more on the history of that. Apparently Microsoft put out a release of Microsoft Flight Simulator for the original Macintosh! I always assumed that was subLogic Flight Simulator II, but no, it was MSFS--Microsoft was footing the bill for that development. That was where Artwick and pals first introduced multi-window support, mouse yoke, spot-plane and tower views, the Learjet and the rest of it.
Then, much as the original MSFS had gotten ported by subLogic to the 8-bits, all that new stuff got ported to Flight Simulator II for the Mac's 16-bit graphics-heavy competition, the Atari ST and the Amiga. And MSFS 3.0 for MS-DOS came out after that.
In the late 80s, Bruce Artwick split from subLogic to form Bruce Artwick Organization, which was eventually acquired by Microsoft. subLogic put out another simulator called "Flight Assignment: Air Transport Pilot", and there was some legal trouble with Microsoft over the bits of Microsoft Flight Simulator code that they claimed were still in it.
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Date: 2024-10-16 10:29 am (UTC)I recently looked up some more on the history of that. Apparently Microsoft put out a release of Microsoft Flight Simulator for the original Macintosh! I always assumed that was subLogic Flight Simulator II, but no, it was MSFS--Microsoft was footing the bill for that development. That was where Artwick and pals first introduced multi-window support, mouse yoke, spot-plane and tower views, the Learjet and the rest of it.
Then, much as the original MSFS had gotten ported by subLogic to the 8-bits, all that new stuff got ported to Flight Simulator II for the Mac's 16-bit graphics-heavy competition, the Atari ST and the Amiga. And MSFS 3.0 for MS-DOS came out after that.
In the late 80s, Bruce Artwick split from subLogic to form Bruce Artwick Organization, which was eventually acquired by Microsoft. subLogic put out another simulator called "Flight Assignment: Air Transport Pilot", and there was some legal trouble with Microsoft over the bits of Microsoft Flight Simulator code that they claimed were still in it.