Was going through my Google Photos and found some screenshots from "the good old days", figured I'd share with you all. I was pretty young when these add-ons came out, like middle school/early high school. I think my parents probably weren't too happy about me developing a taste for UK trains, I remember the Pound then was almost double the Dollar. When my birthday or Christmas rolled around I was usually sure to ask for whatever add-on had come out over the past year. They were add-ons back then, not DLC, and you usually had to order a physical disc. I've still got all my old MSTS add-ons in their DVD cases; I'd like to frame and hang them when we buy a house as the cover art was/is pretty cool, and for me pretty nostalgic. Here's a photo from my room at the time, circa mid-2000's... Most of these are from the Severn Valley, East Lancs, West Somerset, and Swanage payware add-ons, with the rolling stock used from each others add-ons. Enjoy a blast from the past!
Not too shoddy for their age. I still have MSTS and some add ons but sadly my current PC won’t play them.
I managed to get my cheap Lenovo laptop running it, somehow lol. Once, for kicks I tried driving the Acela from 30th Street station whilst on an Acela leaving 30th Street and got wicked motion sick. It's still fun to mess with on occasion, and a lot of the content was extraordinary for the time period. One wonders what would have happened if MSTS2 was ever completed.
Agreed While I do not know I can guess. a) The laptop runs Windows XP ? b) You used the program Open Rails ? c) On the laptop you have VM software (two examples come to mind: VirtualBox or VMware) that in turn allows you to run Windows XP or earlier version of Windows than version XP ?
Nope to all three, it runs Windows 10 natively, no VM. It's also straight out of the box MSTS, no Open Rails upgrade.
Wow, interesting to look at. A party of jagged edges, not much for AA in those times. And I remember these very well (yeah, getting old). The modern sims have come a long way. Almost photo-realistic. Thanks for posting these memories.