Does anyone here enjoy using flight simulator software/games? I used to lik NI>to use Microsoft Flight Simulator quite a bit, and it seems Microsoft is no NI>longer developing it - The last release was Flight Simulator X, in 2006. I' NI>not sure why Microsoft stopped developing it after so many years, but I've a NI>heard of X-Plane as another fairly good flight simulator. I'm curious what NI>other good flight simulator games/software is out there.
I liked that Microsoft Flight Simulator was extensible with scenery add-ons NI>custom aircrafts. And people made funny aircrafts for it too, such as Star NI>Trek and Star Wars ships, etc..
Does anyone here enjoy using flight simulator software/games? I used to lik to use Microsoft Flight Simulator quite a bit, and it seems Microsoft is no longer developing it - The last release was Flight Simulator X, in 2006. I' not sure why Microsoft stopped developing it after so many years, but I've a heard of X-Plane as another fairly good flight simulator. I'm curious what other good flight simulator games/software is out there.
I liked that Microsoft Flight Simulator was extensible with scenery add-ons custom aircrafts. And people made funny aircrafts for it too, such as Star Trek and Star Wars ships, etc..
It seems like all the good flight-sim software companies went by the wayside at least ten years ago. Which is odd because there are still companies making the flight-sim yokes and other hardware (some really, really expensive hardware) to work with flight sims.
Personally, I'd like to see Falcon 4.0 resurrected. That was a sim that
I got into in the late 1990s and was just fantastic.
Apparently, some of the flight sim games are still operational on modern OS's (patches have still been developed for MS Flight Sim and X-Plane, though not sure if they were done by the original authors or by
community contributions).
I liked that Microsoft Flight Simulator was extensible with scenery add-ons a N>custom aircrafts. And people made funny aircrafts for it too, such as Star N>Trek and Star Wars ships, etc..
Nightfox wrote to All <=-
I liked that Microsoft Flight Simulator was extensible with scenery add-ons and custom aircrafts. And people made funny aircrafts for it
too, such as Star Trek and Star Wars ships, etc..
I liked that Microsoft Flight Simulator was extensible with scenery add-on N>custom aircrafts. And people made funny aircrafts for it too, such as Sta N>Trek and Star Wars ships, etc..
I never used the Flight Simulator stuff, but I used the ORIGINAL
Microsoft Train Simulator. However, it doesn't run under Windows 7.
Daryl
I never used the Flight Simulator stuff, but I used the ORIGINAL
Microsoft Train Simulator. However, it doesn't run under Windows 7.
There was/is a spaceflight simulator - Orbiter 2010, IIRC. It's the same thing but for spaceflight. Comes with its custom easy to fly spacecraft, as well as the Space SHuttle. This is another simulator that has had custom spacecraft designed for it, including Star Trek ships. :)
Does anyone here enjoy using flight simulator software/games? I used to like to use Microsoft Flight Simulator quite a bit, and it seems Microsoft is no longer developing it - The last release was Flight Simulator X, in
Does anyone here enjoy using flight simulator software/games? I used to like to use Microsoft Flight Simulator quite a bit, and it seems Microsoft is no longer developing it - The last release was Flight Simulator X, in 2006. I'm not sure why Microsoft stopped developing it after so many years, but I've also heard of X-Plane as another fairly good flight simulator. I'm curious what other good flight simulator games/software is out there.
Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-
There was/is a spaceflight simulator - Orbiter 2010, IIRC. It's the same thing but for spaceflight. Comes with its custom easy to fly spacecraft, as well as the Space SHuttle. This is another simulator that has had custom spacecraft designed for it, including Star Trek ships. :)
Interesting, I haven't seen that.. As far as space travel games, I did
I LOVED flight Sims. Then they made em better and better until you needed a $1200 system to run them. My kid was coming of age so Nintendo got the nod in our house. Do they still have flight sims? If so what "Rocketship PC" does one need to run them? 12 Meg Ram? 5TB drive. What?
Does anyone here enjoy using flight simulator software/games? I used to like to use Microsoft Flight Simulator quite a bit, and it seems Microsoft is no longer developing it - The last release was Flight Simulator X, in 2006. I'm not sure why Microsoft stopped developing it after so many years, but I've also heard of X-Plane as another fairly good flight simulator. I'm curious what other good flight simulator games/software is out there.
I liked that Microsoft Flight Simulator was extensible with scenery add-ons and custom aircrafts. And people made funny aircrafts for it too, such as Star Trek and Star Wars ships, etc..
Train Simulator was something I never used, although it looked interesting. N>always did like trains, but for some reason never tried Microsoft's Train N>Simulator.
Does anyone here enjoy using flight simulator software/games? I used to like to use Microsoft Flight Simulator quite a bit, and it seems Microsoft is no longer developing it - The last release was Flight Simulator X, in 2006. I'm not sure why Microsoft stopped developing it after so many years, but I've also
heard of X-Plane as another fairly good flight simulator. I'm curious what other good flight simulator games/software is out there.
I liked that Microsoft Flight Simulator was extensible with scenery add-ons and
custom aircrafts. And people made funny aircrafts for it too, such as Star Trek and Star Wars ships, etc..
Microsoft created a simulator called Microsoft ESP. This served as the core of what became Flight Sim X. Microsoft later sold the ESP product to Lockheed Martin and discontinued sales of FSX. Lockheed turned ESP into a product called Prepar3D. Prepar3D is up to version 4 now and is 64 bit, includes many bugfixes, and has built-in support for the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. Their licensing agreement basically says, "you can't use this for entertainment purposes", which everyone universally ignores. :)
A few years ago Microsoft sold FSX itself to the same company that bought Train Simulator and that company fixed a few bugs and released it on Steam. (They also started a new flight sim product based on FSX, but I haven't kept up on that.)
You should also check out FlightGear - the flight models and systems modeling is top notch (but varies depending on how much effort the aircraft designer put in). The latest release was a few weeks ago. (http://www.flightgear.org)
Oculus Rift. Their licensing agreement basically says, "you can't use t for entertainment purposes", which everyone universally ignores. :)
Interesting.. I didn't know that. If they don't want people using it for entertainment though, I suppose it still isn't quite the same thing as Microsoft Flight Simulator was, and I imagine there isn't a community of peo developing aircraft and scenery for it..? Bummer to hear what happened to Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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