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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:55 amPosted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:06 amNice find! Delightfully quaint ("we've come a long way now we have 386 hertz chips,33 megahertz processors and vga graphics"/ "the very realistic graphics we have these days") and you have to wonder how today's sims will fare when we compare with what's available in 20 years time...
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:41 am"if you were to take this and run in on an old 8088 machine, it would update the screen every five seconds."
Hmm, a simulator which requires the latest technology to work properly, what a concept!
Hmm, a simulator which requires the latest technology to work properly, what a concept!
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:22 amWhat's one frame every 5 seconds, as a FPS rate?
0.20 !!
Imagine that lol
0.20 !!
Imagine that lol
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:29 amQUOTE
What's one frame every 5 seconds, as a FPS rate?
0.20 !!
Imagine that lol[/quote]
I'm not sure I want to, since I hate it when I get below 13fps.
0.20 !!
Imagine that lol[/quote]
I'm not sure I want to, since I hate it when I get below 13fps.
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:41 amGreat find...
I forsook MS for a while some years back, and became an ace Janes F-15E Strike Eagle driver.
(As in, fly to the 500-page pilot's handbook)
Great memories and astonishing immersion.
The next YouTube clip after your link had played, was SE, and I took a look.
Mistake - some things, like 8036 computers, are best left to slightly faded memories.
But it's really only in the graphics department - in many ways flightsims have not moved on at all in 20 years.
I forsook MS for a while some years back, and became an ace Janes F-15E Strike Eagle driver.
(As in, fly to the 500-page pilot's handbook)
Great memories and astonishing immersion.
The next YouTube clip after your link had played, was SE, and I took a look.
Mistake - some things, like 8036 computers, are best left to slightly faded memories.
But it's really only in the graphics department - in many ways flightsims have not moved on at all in 20 years.
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:52 amZK-MAT wrote:QUOTE (ZK-MAT @ Jan 23 2011, 11:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>What's one frame every 5 seconds, as a FPS rate?
0.20 !!
Imagine that lol
For a long time, MSFS was strictly locked at 2 FPS, no more no less. That's why I'm a bit more forgiving of low frame rates, anything better than 2 is progress!
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 11:38 amCripes , i forgot , i had that Battle of Britain sim by Lucas arts , my favorite from the era was the original Micropose B17 Flying Fortress , you had to complete 25 missions bomb targets and shoot your way home again .