kcarroll (02/04/83)
Do any of the IBM PC owners out there have a copy of the flight- simulator program written by (I think) microsoft? If so, please get in touch with me via mail. I am interested in finding out how people rate its performance (especially if the person using the simulator is already a pilot). The reason for my interest is that I'm in the process of writing a flight simulator of my own; given what I know about the system being simulated, I frankly don't beleive that the microsoft program could be providing a very accurate simulation (although it's undoubtedly head-and-shoulders above arcade games' performance). Please reply >directly< to me, not via this newsgroup. Thanks in advance... -Kieran A. Carroll ...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll
dap1 (02/06/83)
#R:utzoo:-279300:ihlpb:17100006: 0:1168 ihlpb!dap1 Feb 5 18: 0:00 1983 I've got this thing and it's a pretty amazing piece of software. I'm not a pilot but I can say that the effects are great. There are only a few problems such as : It's controlled by the keyboard which makes it difficult to steer (for people like me who don't have a joystick I guess that's just as well). I suppose it's pretty juvenile but I'd like to see something a little more spectacular than a blank screen with "CRASH" written on it when I hit the ground. Well, those are minor inconveniences but the 3-D effect is super and there are some 30 or 40 variables taken into account in each situation with MANY options (almost too many) such as season, cloud layers, wind, time of day, geography, etc., etc. I wouldn't have answered via the net BUT this program does something that I don't know how to do and I was wondering if somebody else out there did. The upper half of the screen is in one resolution mode and the lower is in another (for the console). I know you can fool around with the registers in the 6845 but I'm not enough of a hardware jock to know exactly how to set them. Does anyone else out there know? Darrell Plank BTL-IH