willee@.berkeley.edu (Willy M. Lee) (02/13/91)
I am looking for any flight simulators which can run in Sunview or X-windows on a Unix workstation. I have heard rumors of the existence of a good F-18 simulator. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Willee <Berkeley pro-war coalition>
janzen@mprgate.mpr.ca (Martin Janzen) (02/14/91)
[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. -- Martin Janzen janzen@mprgate.mpr.ca (134.87.131.13)
jvb7u@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jon Brinkmann) (02/14/91)
In article <1991Feb13.071622.29101@agate.berkeley.edu> willee@.berkeley.edu (Willy M. Lee) writes:
#I am looking for any flight simulators which can run in Sunview or
#X-windows on a Unix workstation...
Try "contrib/acm.2.1.tar.Z" from expo.lcs.mit.edu. It may also be available
from uunet.uu.net.
Jon
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