Retro Live 2017 - issue 2
Readers voted for the video game System of the Century - pre 2000 ... choices included consoles and computers. Plus we look at Flight Sims and much more.
Readers voted for the video game System of the Century - pre 2000 ... choices included consoles and computers. Plus we look at Flight Sims and much more.
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I don’t have my TRS-80 anymore<br />
so I did a quick Google search for<br />
the game and did a screen shot<br />
of the results (above) to show you<br />
what I ended up playing. Today it<br />
looks like a mess of zig-zag lines<br />
and a bunch of text, but back then<br />
it was a brilliant bit of coding. The<br />
TRS-80 had only 16k of memory<br />
and very limited graphics - 128 by<br />
48 resolution, so to get anything<br />
resembling a flight game and including<br />
the physics was miraculous!<br />
It worked… sort of. It was<br />
difficult to lay as I could use only<br />
the keyboard and the graphics<br />
were often confusing, only sometimes<br />
when it all lined up did it look<br />
like you were flying over an airfield.<br />
Still, it was a start. The Apple<br />
II version was better looking and<br />
featured basic gages on the bottom<br />
of your screen to assist with<br />
flying, but the scenery graphics<br />
were still extremely basic.<br />
The next generation of the game<br />
on the Commodore 64, Atari 800<br />
and IBM PC were better.<br />
All images from Wikipedia.
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