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From: bcorrie@uvicctr.UUCP (Brian Corrie)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: Flight Simulator for Sun 3 or 4
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Date: 25 May 88 17:46:26 GMT
References: <205@talos.UUCP> <53969@sun.uucp>
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In article <53969@sun.uucp> falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk) writes:
>In article <205@talos.UUCP>, vincent@talos.UUCP (Andy Vincent) writes:
>> 
>> 
>> Does anyone have/know of a flight simulator for a Sun 3 or 4.
>
>Not that I know of, but it just so happens that I'm writing one.  It
>draws pictures quite nicely, handles complex terrain, full hidden surface
>elimination and adaptive detail (as you get closer to objects, they are
>drawn in more detail).
>
>It runs on a sun with a GP and will soon run on suns without a GP.

There exists a flight simulator for the suns with the Graphics Processor
that is in the /usr/demo/GP1 directory. Because Ed is with SUN, this 
may be the same one he mentions in his article. We may have got a copy 
because our machines were acquired more recently. In any case Andy,
you might want to check this directory. Unfortunately, our SUNS do not
have the GP so I don't know how good it is.

>		-ed falk, sun microsystems
>		 sun!falk, falk@sun.com
>terrorist, cryptography, DES, drugs, cipher, secret, decode, NSA, CIA, NRO.

S'later,
         Brian Corrie