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

Published: Sept. 7, 2018, 7 a.m.

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Bruce Artwick: Flight Simulator II, Night Mission Pinball
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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.\\xa0
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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.
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This interview took place on August 7, 2018.
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Bruce\'s article, 3-D Computer Graphics (Kilobaud magazine, October 1977)
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