Microsoft Flight Simulator - Microsoft Flight Simulator Add-Ons, Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network, Avsim.Com, Flightsim.com (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Microsoft Flight Simulator Add-Ons, Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network, Avsim.com, Flightsim.com, International Virtual Aviation Organisation, Combat Flight Simulator. Excerpt: 1.0 GHz CPU, 256 MB RAM (for Windows XP SP2) or 512 MB RAM (for Windows Vista), 14GB drive space(15GB for Deluxe version), 56.6 kbit/s modem or LAN for multiplayer, DVD Drive. Microsoft Flight Simulator (sometimes abbreviated to MSFS or FS) is a flight simulator program for Microsoft Windows, marketed and often seen as a video game. One of the longest-running, best-known and most comprehensive home flight simulator series, Microsoft Flight Simulator was an early product in the Microsoft portfolio different from its other software which was largely business-oriented and at 25 years is its longest-running franchise, predating Windows by three years. It has been reported that Microsoft Flight Simulator may be the longest running PC game series of all time. In January 2009 it was reported that Microsoft closed down the ACES Game Studio, the design team responsible for the series. Bruce Artwick developed the Flight Simulator program beginning in 1977 and his company, subLOGIC sold it for various personal computers. In 1982 Artwick's company licensed to Microsoft a version of Flight Simulator for the IBM PC, which was marketed as Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.00. Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates was fascinated with Antoine de Saint Exupry's book Night Flight, which described the sensations of flying a small aircraft in great detail. Microsoft Flight Simulator began life as a set of articles on computer graphics written by Bruce Artwick in 1976 about a 3D computer graphics program. When the magazine editor said that subscribers wanted to buy the program, Bruce Artwick inc... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=159994