- Bruce Artwick
Bruce Artwick was the creator of the first consumer
flight simulator software. His originalApple II software was purchased byMicrosoft and eventually becameMicrosoft Flight Simulator . [cite news |title=Flying the User-Friendly Skies |author=Phillip Elmer-Dewitt |publisher="Time" |date=1984-06-04 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,951158,00.html |accessdate=2008-03-21] He founded the companysubLOGIC while a student at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979, which released the first version of Flight Simulator the following year.In 1988 he left subLOGIC to found BAO Ltd (Bruce Artwick Organization), retaining the copyright to Flight Simulator, which he continued to develop. In 1994, BAO released
Microsoft Space Simulator , one of the first general purpose space flight simulators. In 1995, they released Tower, anair traffic control simulator . In January 1996, BAO and the copyright to Flight Simulator were acquired by Microsoft. Artwick remained with the company as a consultant.References
External links
* [http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsh/artwick.htm Flight Simulator History — Artwick]
* [http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,977/ Bruce A. Artwick] at MobyGames
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