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Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si... by astrodust on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @03:11PM (#14141929)
It's one of the oldest Microsoft products that's not Office or OS-based. Truly amazing how much time they've invested in it over the decades. I wonder how much code from the 1980s is still shipping.
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Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si... by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @03:17PM (#14141982)
> It's one of the oldest Microsoft products that's not Office or OS-based.

It's older than any of the Office components, too.

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Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si... by astrodust on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @03:18PM (#14141992)
Yeah, looks like the core code dates from 1977 (!) and Microsoft acquired it in 1981. That's a heck of a legacy.
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Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si... by hermitdev on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:22PM (#14142542)
Definitely is quite a legacy. I didn't realize it went back that far, but I do recall it running on DOS. Only had one brief go at it on a friend's computer in the late 80s. Don't recall being very good at it. As I recall, it wasn't very friendly to mistakes, especially on landing. I remember crashing a lot.
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Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si... by mcguire on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:57PM (#14142841)
I had a version for C-64 in high school. Taking off and landing was about all you could do, given the graphics.
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Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si... by veli_joza on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @05:29AM (#14146528)
Yeah, I played Atari ST version and it was a blast. Gorgeous filled polygons, up to 4 simultaneous 3D views, weather conditions, stunt flying... However this is off-topic as only PC versions were made by Microsoft.
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Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si... by jacquesm on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @03:35PM (#14142143)
It even lives inside Office as an easter egg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYb5GUs0dM

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Re:A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Si... by nommm-nommm on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @09:30AM (#14147532)
Not anymore. Around the turn of the century Microsoft adopted a strict no Easter eggs policy as part of their trustworthy computing initiative.
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