Re: Flight Simulators ???

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Nick <spam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>Of actual flight simulators that I remember, there was SubLogics original
>flight sim, then someone, I dunno who put out another one, this time with a
>little bit of color...  there was F-15 strike eagle and Skyfox, more
>militarily oriented sims.  I recall liking skyfox a lot.  My favorite, though
>was Wings of Fury, which was a broderbund release... I loved that game,
>though not a true flight sim, probably the most fun flying game I have played

I had SubLogic's Flight Simulator.  It simulated a Cessna
and the manuals were detailed and realism oriented.  The
included flight scenery was enough to fly from Los Angeles
LAX to Catalina island.  It was pretty good, but I always
thought the realism was messed up by the terrible sound.
Too bad a IIGS version was never released.  A little Ensoniq
power would have helped a lot.

>on the AII.  As far as I know, there weren't any flight sims for the GS
>except for a helo simulator called Tomohawk or some such thing.  As I
>understand it, the GS has some special solid rendering capabilities that
>would have made it an ideal platform for doing flight sims...

Yup.  It is called Fill Mode.  On the IIGS, you just need to
draw an outline of a shape and it gets filled in by the
hardware in this mode.  They could do something like the
polygonal rendering in Falcon 3.0 for a IIGS flight simulator
easily.  It is really too bad that FTA didn't have people who
enjoyed flight sims.  The Su-27 Flanker sim also uses this
type of rendering.