Sublogic
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| Company type | Corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | October 1977 |
| Founders | Bruce Artwick Stu Moment |
| Headquarters | Urbana-Champaign |
| Products | Flight Simulator II Microsoft Flight Simulator Jet Night Mission Pinball |
| Website | www |
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] Sublogic is best known as the creator of the Flight Simulator series, later known as Microsoft Flight Simulator.
History
Sublogic released the flight simulation program FS1 Flight Simulator for the Apple II in 1979, followed by the more popular and widely ported Flight Simulator II in 1983, and Jet in 1985.
In 1982, Flight Simulator was licensed to Microsoft, and through 2006 Microsoft released major updates to Microsoft Flight Simulator approximately every three years.[3] A reboot of the series was announced in 2019, simply titled Microsoft Flight Simulator, to be released in 2020.
Sublogic also produced software other than flight simulators, including children's educational software,[2] 3D graphics software for CP/M,[4] the A2-3D1 animation library for the Apple II,[5] the X-1 video card and 3D graphics software for IBM PC compatibles,[6] and Night Mission Pinball (1982) which was originally for the Apple II and ported to the Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS.[7]
Denouement
Bruce Artwick left Sublogic to form the Bruce Artwick Organization, which was taken over by Microsoft and Tony Garcia in December 1995.
Sublogic continued under the ownership of Stu Moment, who produced Flight Assignment: A.T.P., which specialised in simulating passenger airliners. It used a scoring method to determine the performance of the user. Sublogic began a new flight simulator, but in late 1995 was acquired by Sierra,[8] who completed the program and released it as Pro Pilot in 1997.
Stu Moment continues to run the present Sublogic Corporation as a generic simulation company, in addition to being an airshow display pilot with his Classic Airshow company.
See also
References
- ^ "Base History". subLogic. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
- ^ a b "Good News for Kids..." Compute! (advertisement). August 1982. p. 25. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
- ^ Flight Simulator History - The Story
- ^ "The subLOGIC FS1 Flight Simulator is just one application of our fine graphic software. Other applications can be yours!". BYTE. July 1980. p. 214.
- ^ "Animation for the Apple II". BYTE (advertisement). October 1980. p. 26. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
- ^ "High-Speed Animation on Your IBM PC!". BYTE (advertisement). September 1986. p. 207.
- ^ Kaiser, Erde. "Night mission pinball". The House of Games .net.
- ^ Sherman, Christopher (February 1996). "Movers & Shakers". Next Generation. No. 14. Imagine Media. p. 25.