Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

Sega infamously worked with Lockheed Martin/GE Aerospace to develop the graphics hardware for their Model 2 arcade board [1].

[1] https://segaretro.org/Lockheed_Martin

Pity they don't show the even older graphics on TRS-80.

Delight in the 128x48 monochrome display, max 6 fps.

http://www.trs-80.org/t80-fs1/

The basic layout (airfields, mountains) you see in the article was kept for a few iterations even after MS bought them.

(2023) Discussion at the time (52 points, 48 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34955179

I was surprised Foley and van Dam were not mentioned — but it looks like that text came out a few years after Artwick's first flight sim.

Bold claim. Elite probably has a stronger claim considering it's a , you know, game.

But subLOGIC flight simulator was a seminal product.

I learned my initial 3D graphics rendering from Bruce Artwick's 1984 book

https://www.amazon.com/Microcomputer-Displays-Graphics-Anima...