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Bruce Arthur Artwick (born January 1, 1953) [1] is an American software engineer. He is the creator of the first consumer flight simulator software. He founded Sublogic after graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1977, and released the first version of Flight Simulator for the Apple II in 1979.
Sublogic Corporation (stylized as subLOGIC) is an American software development company. It was formed in 1977 by Bruce Artwick, and incorporated in 1978 by Artwick's partner Stu Moment [1] as Sublogic Communications Corporation. [2]
Aces Game Studio (ACES) was an American video game developer based in Redmond, Washington, owned by Microsoft Game Studios.It was founded in 1988 under the name Bruce Artwick Organization Limited (BAO Ltd.) at Champaign, Illinois, by Bruce Artwick, creator of Microsoft Flight Simulator, Microsoft Space Simulator and also co-founder of Sublogic.
Microsoft Flight Simulator began as a set of articles on computer graphics, written by Bruce Artwick throughout 1976, about flight simulation using 3-D graphics. When the editor of the magazine told Artwick that subscribers were interested in purchasing such a program, Artwick founded Sublogic Corporation to commercialize his ideas.
Flight Simulator II [1] [2] is a video game developed by Bruce Artwick and published by Sublogic as the sequel to FS1 Flight Simulator.It was released in December 1983 for the Apple II, [3] [4] [5] in 1984 for Atari 8-bit computers [6] [5] and Commodore 64, [7] [5] [8] in 1986 for the Amiga [9] [10] [5] and Atari ST, [11] [12] [5] the Atari XEGS as a pack-in title in 1987, [13] and in August ...
Meanwhile, Bruce Artwick left Sublogic and founded The Bruce Artwick Organization to continue his work on subsequent Microsoft releases, beginning with Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 in 1988. Microsoft Flight Simulator reached commercial maturity with version 3.1, and went on to encompass the use of 3D graphics and graphic hardware acceleration.
A large series of add-on products were produced for FS4 between 1990 and 1993. First from Microsoft and the Bruce Artwick Organization (BAO) came the Aircraft and Scenery Designer (ASD) integration module in 1990. [3] This allowed FS4 users to build custom scenery units known as SC1 files which could be used within FS4 and traded with other users.
Computer-graphics specialist Bruce Artwick and pilot and marketing student Stu Moment were roommates at the University of Illinois.Released for the Apple II computer as A2-FS1 Flight Simulator with British Ace - 3D Aerial Battle, [3] it was their first product after forming Sublogic, [4] has black and white wireframe graphics, with very limited scenery consisting of 36 tiles (in a 6 by 6 ...