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Flight Simulator Manual for the Microbee - ChickenMan - 15-05-2022
Thanks to Amy for making this manual available to be recovered. Originally found on a 3.5" CIAB disk as a Wordstar file. The disk imaged with no errors and the extracted file was loaded into WordPerfect that natively imports Wordstar files and then saved out as a DOC file, which in turn was saved out as a searchable PDF after margins were adjusted. End result is a 16 page manual.
Microbee's Flight Simulator originated from the Sublogic FS1b Flight Simulator originally written for the Apple 2 and later modified for the TRS-80. Brad Robinson was contracted by Microbee to convert the TRS-80 version to run on a 16k Microbee (from personal communication).
It offers aircraft simulation that considers 23 important aircraft characteristics, an out-the-window 3D dynamic flight display,
extensive flight controls, minimum VFR instrumentation plus additional instruments (18 in all), a radar display, and full
armament (bombs and machine guns). The program is written in optimized assembly language and is capable of presenting
3 to 6 frames per second. In addition, "British Ace", an aerial battle game is included.
The game is currently in the Repository and is on Games_7_ss80.dsk disk, so time to fire up the 'bee or emulator and start flying now with the help of a Manual.
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee/Documentation/Manuals/Games folder we placed
flight_simulator_manual.pdf