ANTIC Interview 366 - Bruce Artwick: Flight Simulator II, Night Mission Pinball

Bruce Artwick: Flight Simulator II, Night Mission Pinball Bruce Artwick was co-founder of SubLOGIC, and creator of the best-selling program, Flight Simulator II. FSII was first available for the Apple II, with versions released later for the TRS-80, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, and other platforms. His 1976 master's thesis, A Versatile Computer Generated Dynamic Flight Display, about creating a real-time flight simulator on the PDP-11, provided some of the early research for his flight simulation software. Bruce was also creator of Night Mission Pinball, a popular pinball game that was available for Apple II, Atari 8-bit, C64, and DOS computers. This interview took place on August 7, 2018. Bruce's article, 3-D Computer Graphics (Kilobaud magazine, October 1977) History of Microsoft Flight Simulator History of SubLOGIC Bruce's thesis, A Versatile Computer Generated Dynamic Flight Display Bruce Artwick in Wikipedia AtariMania's list of SubLOGIC software Kevin's Fight simulation books site