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From: m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Flight Simulator 4.0? (also realism)
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Date: 13 Dec 90 23:11:39 GMT
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I have heard this rumor in the Bad Old Days of the Amiga, and have the
program which it refers to (Radar Raiders) on disk here.

In the beginning of the Amiga, subLOGIC was indeed very interested,
and was working on a killer new combat flight simulator for it. The
program was along the lines of Jet, but was to feature some really
neat innovations.  Unfortunately the Amiga OS was not at all stable
prior to release 1.1; during the development of the program several
new versions of the OS and programming guidelines came out, and each
time, something in the program broke.  This was getting very
expensive, and eventually the project was scrapped.  The last program
fragment was distributed as Radar Raiders; you can fly the jet around
a test landscape, with sounds.  When AmigaDOS settled down and became
something a programmer could trust (v1.2), they ported the current
version of Flight Simulator.  Unfortunately, F/A 18 Interceptor and
some other good combat flight simulators were not far behind the
actual release of subLOGIC flight simulator.  As I understand it,
subLOGIC was burned, and the whole thing soured the company on any
more amiga projects (after having lost money on the thing not once,
but twice, you'd be reluctant to start a third go-round, too).

--Wildstar