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From: janzen@mprgate.mpr.ca (Martin Janzen)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: F-18 Flight Simulator
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.185816.18270@mprgate.mpr.ca>
Date: 13 Feb 91 18:58:16 GMT
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[I tried to email this directly, but it bounced, so:]

I can think of a couple.  Since you mention Sunview, I assume you have Sun
equipment, so you might be able to get a copy of "Aviator" from your local
Sun representative.  I've seen it demonstrated; it's pretty impressive!
The catch:  you need a GX graphics accelerator card, and *lots* of disk
(the images of the terrain you fly over are apparently from Landsat data).

An announcement about a simpler, but more generic, flight simulator was just
posted the other day in (I believe) comp.windows.x.  To get this one, just
ftp it from expo.lcs.mit.edu; it's called contrib/acm.2.0.tar.Z.  I got it,
but have had a bit of trouble compiling.  The test program works, though, and
looks all right on my SLC.

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Martin Janzen                     janzen@mprgate.mpr.ca (134.87.131.13)