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Old 04-14-10, 10:34 AM   #7
Frying Tiger
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Originally Posted by FlyingSinger View Post
I just bought DW (jewel case) for $10 from Amazon on a nostalgic whim. I used to play Harpoon (DOS maybe?) on a home desktop and on one of my earliest work notebooks back in the mid-90's, and I also spent a lot of time with Jane's 688(i) some years back. I'm more of a (lapsed) flight sim junky and (more recent) space flight sim guy (I wrote a tutorial book on the free Orbiter space flight sim a few years ago). But I've always loved subs, in part because my brother served on boomers back in the 80's.
I highly recommend Orbiter to anyone who love simulations... it's seriously cool. (and I built a few of the ship models in it!) (grin)
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