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jzieske
Jul 20, 2003, 09:37 PM
Hi all,

I was curious if anyone knows of a flight simulator stlye program for OSX. I really like microsoft's for PC, however it does not look like they make it for OSX. I found a couple older ones for OS9 on Amazon but not for OSX. Also, if anyone has a recomendation for a joystick/flight controller that would be great.

Thanks in advance for the help.


buseman
Jul 21, 2003, 08:01 AM
I still have Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 lying around, weighting in at a whopping 1.2 MB :D

Beware however that for optimum performance, your system should have at least 750k of RAM
datalok
Jul 21, 2003, 08:03 AM
www.x-plane.com
maradong
Jul 22, 2003, 05:30 AM
flightgear should run on the ppc archi.
perhaps you have to recompile it don t know.


seems to work
http://www.macobserver.com/tip/2003/05/25.1.shtml
get it here
http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/InstallGuide/getstartch3.html
dxp4acu
Jul 24, 2003, 03:25 PM
x-plane is sooooo much better than MS attempt at a FS. And the creator primarily uses macs, so he updates them along with PCs.

Check it out!
maradong
Jul 24, 2003, 03:39 PM
well perhaps, but isn t xplane shareware?
flightgear is just as good as xplane ( IMO ). and it s free, thought i may be wrong on the shareware stuff for xplane, am just to lazy to verify
datalok
Jul 24, 2003, 06:54 PM
no x-plane carries a fairly hefty pricetag. I think i am gonna wait til version 7 is released (in beta now). It appears there are many people in the x-plane community making plane skins and terrain maps etc. Plus I know one thing you can fly is the shuttle - Mach 21 from orbit to land at Edwards with no engines in a 150 ton glider!