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 as Sublogic Communications Corporation. Sublogic is best known as the creator of the Flight Simulator series, later known as Microsoft Flight Simulator, but it also created other video games such as Night Mission Pinball, Football, and Adventure on a Boat; educational software; and an Apple II graphics library.
History Sublogic released the flight simulation program FS1 Flight Simulator for the Apple II and the TRS-80 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.Flight Simulator History - The Story A reboot of the series was announced in 2019, simply titled Microsoft Flight Simulator, released in 2020.
Sublogic also produced software other than flight simulators, including children's educational software, 3D graphics software for CP/M, the A2-3D1 animation library for the Apple II, the X-1 video card and 3D graphics software for IBM PC compatibles, and Night Mission Pinball (1982) which was originally for the Apple II and ported to the Atari 8-bit computers, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS.
Denouement Bruce Artwick left Sublogic in 1988 to form BAO Ltd. (Bruce Artwick Organization), retaining the copyright to Flight Simulator, which they continued to develop. BAO and the copyright to Flight Simulator were acquired by Microsoft in December 1995.
After Artwick's departure, Sublogic continued under the ownership of Stu Moment, who produced Flight Assignment: A.T.P. in 1990. It specializes in simulating passenger airliners, using a scoring method to determine the performance of the user.
Sublogic began a new flight simulator, but in late 1995 was acquired by Sierra, which completed the program and released it as Pro Pilot in 1997.
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.
Games developed Year Title Platform 1979 FS1 Flight Simulator Apple II, TRS-80 1981 Saturn Navigator Apple II 1981 Escape! Apple II 1982 Zendar Apple II 1982 Space Vikings Apple II 1982 Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 IBM PC 1982 Night Mission Pinball Apple II, Atari 8-bit, IBM PC, C64 1983 Flight Simulator II Apple II, Atari 8-bit, C64, PC-98, Amiga, Atari ST, Tandy CoCo 3 1984 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2.0 IBM PC 1985 Jet MS-DOS, Apple II, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Mac OS, PC-98 1985 Scenery Disks: 1-6, Western U.S. Scenery Set Atari 8-bit, C64, Apple II, MS-DOS 1986 Pure-Stat Baseball Apple II, C64, MS-DOS 1986 Football C64, MS-DOS 1986 Microsoft Flight Simulator Mac OS 1986–1988 Scenery Disks: 7-12, Japan, Western European Tour Apple II, Atari 8-bit, C64, MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari ST 1987 Jet: Version 2.0 MS-DOS 1988 Stealth Mission C64 1988 Flight Simulator with Torpedo Attack MSX, PC-88 1988 Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 MS-DOS 1989 Thunderchopper MS-DOS 1989 Hawaiian Odyssey: Scenery Adventure Amiga, Atari ST, C64, MS-DOS 1989 UFO MS-DOS 1990 Flight Assignment: Airline Transport Pilot MS-DOS 1991 New Facilities Locator MS-DOS 1993 Flight Light MS-DOS 1993 USA East, USA West MS-DOS 1996 Flight Light Plus MS-DOS
See also History of Microsoft Flight Simulator
References
External links
Sublogic at MobyGames