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flight simulator. The first version was developed by Brand Fortner with Kevin Gorey in the summer of 1974. After its release, it became the most popular game on PLATO until
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The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the Plato System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
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became more popular. This software probably inspired the UIUC student
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The software was the first ever 3D flight simulator and the first
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3D graphics
flight simulator
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Control Data Corporation
PLATO system
multi-player
Empire
Bruce Artwick
Sublogic
Microsoft Flight Simulator
SGI Dogfight
Silicon Graphics


"Airfight (PLATO) 1974"
"My first flight sim? 'airfight' on the PLATO system in the mid 70s"
Reddit


"Bruce Artwick and Stu Moment – The Flight Simulator Men"
the original
"Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 (DOS) 1982"
Pantheon Books
ISBN
978-1101871553
"Airfight (1974) – First 3D flight simulator"
YouTube
"The history of Airfight, one of the first multiplayer flight combat simulation games"
YouTube
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