Talk:Spitfire Ace
Not Sid Meier's first game[edit]
I replaced the claim that this is Sid Meier's first game with "one of the first". Spitfire Ace was probably made after Hellcat Ace, which is essentially the same game but Pacific instead of European scenario, since there are ads that list the latter but not the former. On the loading screen of Hellcat Ace, Floyd of the Jungle and Chopper Rescue are advertised, so these may have been earlier as well.
Apart from the fact that the chronology of the 1982 MicroProse games is difficult to determine, at least one Sid Meier game from pre-MicroProse days has survived: Hostage Rescue, a 1980 BASIC game. So Spitfire Ace is quite definitely not Sid Meier's first game.—Graf Bobby (talk) 23:07, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Unlikely to be a booter and to be for DOS[edit]
A 'booter' is a game that bypasses the OS you have installed, supplying its own boot code so as to have completely hardware control. DOS is a specific operating system. If it were a DOS game and a booter then for some reason they would have decided to license a DOS and put it on the floppies as well as the game, rather than just assuming that everybody already had DOS — a massive expense. It's most likely that the game targets the vanilla IBM PC hardware using entirely its own routines, no use of DOS whatsoever. Can anyone confirm exactly what form this game came in? — 86.175.30.195 (talk) 14:53, 19 September 2010 (UTC)