Flight Simulator History Website

In a table below you can find a year of release all subLOGIC/Microsoft Flight Simulator versions for all computer platforms. There are shown mostly first releases of each main version. Due to many sub-versions and to my effort to get a timeline maximum tabular, I left many partial issues. For more details switch to a detailed chart.

Microsoft sold source code and rights of Microsoft ESP (a commercial version of Microsoft Flight Simulator X) to Lockheed Martin. They started to produce Prepar3D.
The evolution of subLOGIC/Microsoft Flight Simulator
subLOGIC 3D Graphics for Apple II (The demo depicts 14 still monochromatic pictures of the future Flight Simulator)	1979
subLOGIC Flight Simulator 1 for Apple II subLOGIC Flight Simulator 1 for TRS-80	1980
	1981
	1982	Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.00 for IBM PC
subLOGIC Flight Simulator II (partial modification release 1.0) for Apple II	1983
subLOGIC Flight Simulator II for Atari (8bit) 400/ 800/ 800XL/ 600XL/ 1200XL/ 1400XL/ 1450XLD subLOGIC Flight Simulator II for Commodore 64 subLOGIC Flight Simulator II for Data General/One	1984	Microsoft Flight Simulator 2.10 for IBM PC Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.00 for Texas Instruments Professional Computer
subLOGIC Jet for PC	1985	Microsoft Flight Simulator 2.12 for Tandy 1000/ 1200HD/ 2000
subLOGIC Flight Simulator II for Atari ST subLOGIC Flight Simulator II for Amiga subLOGIC Flight Simulator II for NEC PC-9801	1986	Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.00 for Macintosh
subLOGIC Flight Simulator II for Color Computer 3	1987
subLOGIC Flight Simulator with torpedo attack for MSX subLOGIC Flight Simulator with torpedo attack for NEC PC-8801	1988	Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 for IBM PC Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 for Tandy/IBM PC
Bruce Artwick left subLOGIC late 1988 followed with some of his colleagues. Then he established a new company called BAO (Bruce Artwick Organization). It is very important for future that he is an owner of a license for the trademark Flight Simulator. SubLOGIC with Stu Moment as a head continued with making flight simulation programs and add-ons.
subLOGIC Thunder Chopper for PC	1989	Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 for PC
subLOGIC Flight Assignment: Airline Transport Pilot for PC	1990	Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0b for PC Microsoft Aircraft & Scenery Designer for PC
	1991	Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 for Macintosh
	1992	Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0b for computers NEC PC-9800 series
	1993	Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0 for PC
subLOGIC Flight Light for PC	1994	Update to 5.0a version Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0a for NEC PC-9821/ PC-9800/ PC-H98
subLOGIC Flight Light Plus for PC BAO Flight Simulator Flight Shop for PC	1995	Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1 for PC
End of the year 1995 was significant for both subLOGIC and BAO as well. Artwick sold BAO to Microsoft and by chance in that time Sierra bought subLOGIC.
(Sierra) subLOGIC Flight for PC BAO Tower for PC	1996	Microsoft Flight Simulator for Windows 95 (6.0)
	1997	Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 (6.1)
	1998	Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator WWII Europe Series
	1999	Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 (7.0)
	2000	Update to 2000b version Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 WWII Pacific Theatre
	2001	Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 (8.0)
	2002	Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3 Battle for Europe
	2003	Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 (9.0)
	2004	Update to 9.1 version
	2005
	2006	Microsoft Flight Simulator X (10.0)
	2007	Service Pack 1 for Flight Simulator X Microsoft Flight Simulator X Acceleration Expansion Pack Service Pack 2 for Flight Simulator X
	2008	Microsoft Flight Simulator X Gold Edition
Lockheed Martin Prepar 3D v1	2010
	2012	Microsoft Flight
Lockheed Martin Prepar 3D v2	2013
On the 9th of July 2014 Dovetail Games announced a licensing agreement with Microsoft to distribute Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition and to develop further products based on Microsoft's technology for the entertainment market.
	2014	Microsoft Flight Simulator X : Steam Edition
Lockheed Martin Prepar 3D v3	2015	Microsoft Flight Simulator X : Steam Edition Premium
	2016
Lockheed Martin Prepar 3D v4	2017	Dovetail Games Flight Sim World (Early Access)

Lockheed Martin Prepar 3D v5	2020	Microsoft Flight Simulator for PC
	2021	Microsoft Flight Simulator for Xbox Series X\|S

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