Is FS2004 version 9 or version 10?

[bhoyt]

A little over a year ago I purchased Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 and installed it on my system. It was the latest and perhaps greatest in a long line of flight simulation products I have purchased over past twenty plus years. The first version of Flight Simulator I purchased was produced by a company called SubLogic and was purchased for use on a Commadore C-64 8 bit computer running at a blazing 0.5 mhz. The brains behind Flight Simulator was a gifted fellow named Bruce Artwick. SubLogic continued to produce Flight Simulator, until Microsoft bought them out. The first version of Microsoft Flight Simulator was Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0.

With the exception of Microsoft Flight Simulator for Windows 95, I have owned every version of Microsoft Flight Simulator produced.

It didn't dawn on me at the time that FS2004 had been installed by default in the C:/Microsoft Games/Flightsim 9 folder. Later when I was installing some new aircraft I noticed that MS was calling this Flightsim 9! How could this be I thought to myself??? There were three versions produced under the SubLogic name, then MS Flight Simulator 4.X was version 4, MS Flight Simulator 5 and MS Flight Simulator 5.1 CD were version 5, MS Flight Simulator for Windows 95 was version 6, MS Flight Simulator 98 and MS Flight Simulator 98SE were version 7, MS Flight Simulator 2000 was version 8, MS Flight Simulator 2002 Standard and MS Flight Simulator 2002 Professional were version 9, making MS Flight Simulator 2004 - A Century of Flight version 10.

Am I missing something here or was Microsoft so ashamed of their efforts on MS Flight Simulator for Windows, that they didn't count that version??? :D

[bertvankampen]

FS2004 is FS9

regards
bert

[Dijon76]

I think Flt Sim 98 was version 6.1

[SPOFF]

You are missing MS Flight Simulator 3.0. I have a copy of that and a seperate copy of "Add On" Scenery by Sub-Logic. Bruce Artwick and MicroSoft had copyrights for Flght Simulator but the MicroSoft name is all over the "Floppys".

I ran it on my Very Fast Tandy 286 at 4.0 Mgz. I just Re-Cycled that computer last month for earth day. I feel much better now. Now I have room in the closet for the next retiree when Vista and FSX come out. SPOFF

[W2DR]

It is, indeed, version 9. The entire history is here: http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsh/index.htm .

Doug

[bhoyt]

>You are missing MS Flight Simulator 3.0. I have a copy of
>that and a seperate copy of "Add On" Scenery by Sub-Logic.
>Bruce Artwick and MicroSoft had copyrights for Flght Simulator
>but the MicroSoft name is all over the "Floppys".
>
>I ran it on my Very Fast Tandy 286 at 4.0 Mgz. I just
>Re-Cycled that computer last month for earth day. I feel much
>better now. Now I have room in the closet for the next
>retiree when Vista and FSX come out. SPOFF

Ok, I stand corrected I was thinking the first version under the Microsoft name was 4.0.

[bhoyt]

> It is, indeed, version 9. The entire history is here:
>http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsh/index.htm .
>
>Doug

Well, it appears I was partially right when I said they were so ashamed of their efforts on FS 6.0, Flight Simulator for Windows 95 that they didn't count that one. They did count it, they just chose to do a disservice to Flight Simulator 98, by relegating it to a minor version release, making it 6.1, rather than the major version release it really was. I remember some of the comments here shortly after FS98 was released. Nearly everyone agreed that FS98 is what Flight Simuator for Windows 95 should have been. Seems like nearly every generational leap in FS the first version was buggy as heck, but the next version usually corrected all the problems with it's predesessor. FS3 was buggy, but FS4 fixed most of the problems with FS3, FS5.1 CD fixed the problems of FS5.0, FS98, fixed the bugs in FS6.0, and FS2002 was vast improvement over the problems of FS2000.

I still believe in my heart that FS2004 is in reality FS10.

[Ridge_Runner_5]

Well that would make FSX (X being the roman numeral for 10) number 11...it defies logic ;)