{"id":21406,"date":"2018-10-16T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=21406"},"modified":"2018-10-22T07:19:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:19:43","slug":"flight-command-dos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/10\/16\/flight-command-dos\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight-Command (DOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/177258742417\/retrocgads-usa-1982\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/tumblr_ontglerwbP1tg94xho1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Flight-Command (Dos)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/177258742417\/retrocgads-usa-1982\">http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/177258742417\/retrocgads-usa-1982<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an ad for a flight simulator from 1982. It is for DOS-based PCs, which at the time would have only been the IBM PC. This must have been one of the earliest flight simulators available for the PC.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t really find much on this game though the requirements tell a story. It only required 64K of RAM which was what the original IBM PC came with when it was introduced. It also requires an 80-column display. Though you could have a 40-column display with the PC I don&#8217;t know if that was particularly common. Interestingly, it also requires BASICA so I assume that this game was written in BASIC. This game was probably only available via direct order as in this ad.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, I couldn&#8217;t really find much on this one but I limited my googling to 5 minutes or so. The ad pops up various times in 1982 and 1983 issues of PC Magazine. If anybody has any screenshots, post them in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flight-Command (Dos) http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/177258742417\/retrocgads-usa-1982 This is an ad for a flight simulator from 1982. It is for DOS-based PCs, which at the time would have only been the IBM PC. This must have been one of the earliest flight simulators available for the PC. I couldn&#8217;t really find much on this game though the requirements tell a story. It only required 64K of RAM which was what the original IBM PC came with when it was introduced. It also requires an 80-column display. Though you could have a 40-column display with the PC I don&#8217;t know if that was particularly common. Interestingly, it also requires BASICA so I assume that this game was written in BASIC. This game was probably only available via direct order as in this ad. Like I said, I couldn&#8217;t really find much on this one but I limited my googling to 5 minutes or so. The ad pops up various times in 1982 and 1983 issues of PC Magazine. If anybody has any screenshots, post them in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,16],"tags":[63,600,3316,2362,2524],"class_list":["post-21406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-arcana","category-dos","category-retro-games","tag-63","tag-dos","tag-flight-command","tag-retrocomputing","tag-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}