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Re:If Microsoft is killing Flight Simulator, it's killing it... by kqr2 on Friday January 23, 2009 @02:25PM (#446876)
It's pretty interesting that Microsoft's Flight Simulator has its roots in subLOGIC's flight simulator for the Apple II.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Flight_Sim...

The wikipedia article also mentions that the software began life as a set of articles on computer graphics, written by Bruce Artwick throughout 1976. Does anyone know if those articles are available online?

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Re:If Microsoft is killing Flight Simulator, it's killing it... by comatose_kid on Friday January 23, 2009 @05:36PM (#447267)
I don't know about the articles, but Artwick wrote a book "Applied Concepts in Microcomputer Graphics" in the late 70s/early 80s. I recall it had some Apple II code in the back.
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