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From: cfj@nosun.UUCP (Charlie Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: Flight simulators for the Mac
Message-ID: <575@intelisc.nosun.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 90 18:22:36 GMT
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Reply-To: cfj@intelisc.UUCP (Charlie Johnson)
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I have AFT for my SE/30.  We bought it because (supposedly.) it was the only
flight simulator which will run on the 68030 machines.  It's pretty hard to
fly at first for the novice. (I'm not a pilot and haven't used any other flight
simulators.)  You have a choice of about a dozen different planes from a
Cessna to a SR-71.  It has a pretty good training mode which teaches how to
fly and also teaches you some of the acrobatics like loops, rolls, etc.

As a games though, it has some drawbacks in that the terrain never changes.
It really doesn't have much of a games playing sequence.  The way each plan
handles is quite different which is probably realistic. (Try a 360 degree roll
in a SR-71 and see what happens.)

Good points are that it isn't copy protected and it runs under multifinder.

--Charles Johnson
  Intel Scientfic Computers
  Beaverton, OR
  cfj@isc.intel.com