Flight simulation-an engineering approach

摘要

In 1978 Bruce Artwick created his Flight Simulator program, Version 1.0, for the then current personal computers such as Apple II and Commodore 64. He was an electrical engineer, computer programmer and pilot. At that time the power of computers was very limited when compared with the modern hardware; however, he created a virtual world in which to fly aircraft. The Bruce Artwick Organisation (BAO) had been founded to develop a new version at the request of Microsoft for the newly created IBM PC. This version of Flight Simulator, 1.05, was very successful, particularly in the way it used innovative 3-D graphics techniques on a microprocessor.