Retro

Meet The World’s First Flight Simulator

Depending on how old you are, if you’re a flight sim fan you probably cut your teeth on a series like Microsoft Flight Simulator, Falcon or Flight Unlimited. But did you know the world’s very first flight simulator was built all the way back in 1929?


September 9, 2010
News

Portal, Microsoft Flight Sim Touchscreen Controlled With Surface

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Can touchscreen controls ever replace – or even closely match – control input from a gamepad or keyboard and mouse? This demonstration of Valve’s Portal and Microsoft Flight Simulator played on Microsoft’s experimental Surface platform offers hope that it might.