Question What was before Orbiter Simulator?

[richfororbit]

Hi,

So as the question I've put forward, what was before this simulator in terms of PC simulation access?

And how many have used this since it was first released.

 

[Pipcard]

There were also Shuttle simulators in 1992 (primitive 3D graphics) and [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle:_A_Journey_into_Space"]1983[/ame].

 

[NextBigLeap]

Orbiter came out in 2000, but there were many space flight simulators before it. Most notably Shuttle: the space flight simulator in 1992, and Microsoft space simulator in 1994.

 

[Enjo]

I can't believe that nobody has mentioned it!
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Halley_Project"]The Halley Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

[orbitingpluto]

Archive.org has one of the games Pipcard mentioned playable on it's website, the 1992 one. It's very old, but it manages the feeling like your poking around on the Shuttle's flight deck rather well. Neat stuff.

 

[Ravenous]

Not an orbital simulator but:

I had one called "Shuttle Approach and Landing Simulator" ("SALS") on the PC, probably very early 90s. On a single 1.44 MB floppy disk. It put you in a shuttle at up to 50,000 feet and let you fly the thing down. There was control over the speed brakes, an animation of the heading alignment cone/glide path to guide you through a manual turn onto the approach.

Not very good by modern standards! It was a reasonable animation but very limited scenery, and you really couldn't go off and do anything different, just land on the runway. But I thought it was impressive for the time...

 

[boogabooga]

IE 4 PC games preview - Microsoft Space Simulator (1994) - YouTube

There were also Shuttle simulators in 1992 (primitive 3D graphics) and 1983.

:lol:

That video has some real gems.

"Gravitational forces in space are minimal..."

"I doubt if most people could even imagine the level of detail included in Space Simulator..."

"The bitmap planets look convincing..."

"The detail is incredible, but alas this will cost you in PC power...Space Simulator will be very demanding on your system..."

"I was extremely impressed with the variety of spacecraft offered for free flight..."

But it was 20 years ago. Hopefully, we will all be laughing at our current technology in 2035.

 

[Pipcard]

That's what I love about the future.

 

[Zach121k]

Liftoff!

You really can't find much info on it now, but it's a simple shuttle cockpit simulator. Very fun. I think its abandon ware now.

 

[Andy44]

Before Orbiter?!!?

...In the beginning there was the Probe...

 

[Lucy]

Before Orbiter?!!?

...In the beginning there was the Probe...

In the beginning, there was nothing. Which exploded.