I have been heavy into FS since 1983, and I never even heard of you until C9
Ok, then these are for you:
http://www.virtualisoftware.com/oldstuff/ev_simulatori1.jpghttp://www.virtualisoftware.com/oldstuff/ev_simulatori2.jpghttp://www.virtualisoftware.com/oldstuff/ev_simulatori3.jpgNow the explanation:
The year was 1984, and I was in high school back then, and also used to do part-time work for a company that sold software at the newstands (which was very hot in Italy back then) for the Commodore home computers. We did our own software, but the market back then was dominated by pirated copies of commercial products, sold in the open, just with changed names. We had funny italian names for games from Epyx, Electronic Arts, Microprose, etc. Copyright law in Italy didn't cover software until 1992 so, nobody could really do much against it.
The screenshots shows part of a compilation of Flight Sim software, which was released by this company I used to work with. It was distributed on 2 Cassette Tapes, and included stuff like Microprose "Solo Flight", and even SubLogic FS 2.0, all for the Commodore 64. This was FS2.0.
The issue was, FS 2.0 was a disk-only product but, in 1984, not many users could afford a floppy drive for the C64 so, my bosses asked me to do something about it so, with lots of hackery, I've put FS2.0 ON A TAPE and, while I was at it, I also translated in Italian! See the screenshots...( the name "Aldo Campanozzi" you see on the first screen, it's only the graphic designer that did the starting splash screen, I haven't put my name on it...)
I don't think SubLogic ever knew that FS2.0 on the Commodore had a special italian version, which was both illegally sold (well, in Italy, it wasn't technically illegal in 1984) and ran on a Tape, rather than floppies...
This "started" my career in Flight sim developement somehow...I'm not too proud of it, since it was basically an hacking but hey, I was only 17...