FlightGear Flight Simulator
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| This past weekend, I was considering purchasing a flight simulator for my PC.
| While researching various options, I found a free, online simulator called
| FlightGear. It's an open source game, which means anyone who knows what
| they're doing can write and program for it. (An example of a closed source
| game would be Microsoft Flight Simulator, which has only the people hired by
| Microsoft developing the game.) There are hundreds of modern and historic
| airplanes and helicopters available and detailed scenery of the entire world.
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http://www.rantrave.com/Rave/FlightGear-Flight-Simulator.aspx
Fictional Air Combat 0.1.3
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| I recently discovered YAFS on SF.net: Fictional Air Combat, which is an
| action flight simulation at an early development stage.
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http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2009/02/fictional-air-combat-013-re.html
Recent:
Open source quantum simulator libquantum in two complementary versions
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| The libquantum Development Team proudly announces the release of two new
| version of the free quantum simulator. The 1.1.0 development release adds a
| new method for simulating quantum system, while the 1.0.0 stable release
| contains bug fixes.
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http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/10856.html
Laminar Research Releases X-Plane 9
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| While not exactly a game, Laminar Research has announced the release of
| X-Plane 9.0. X-Plane is a multi-platform (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows)
| flight simulator, but unlike FlightGear and other open-source simulators,
| this is meant to be a life-like training exercise. X-Plane is so realistic
| that it has been certified by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) here
| in the United States for use as a training utility. X-Plane 9 has been in
| beta for some time, but X-Plane 9.00 has now officially been released.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjQ0NA
Related:
FlightGear takes off
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| FlightGear is a multiplatform, GPLed flight simulator. It is
| sophisticated, realistic, and extensible. You can choose to fly
| more than 100 different aircraft, ranging from a Sopwith Camel to a UFO,
| you can take off and land from thousands of airports, and you can fly over
| virtually any terrain in the world. After 10 years of development, it has
| suddenly become a very hot item. How hot? You may have seen it used
| recently on prime time TV and not realized it. It was used in an episode of
| Fox TV's legal drama Justice to prove pilot error in the fatal crash of a
| private plane.
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/20/0533247
GL Studio Puts Simulators On The Desktop
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| DiSTI's GL Studio package lets the instructional designer integrate
| photo-realistic objects into their simulations that react just like the
| real parts. The parts influence the performance of the systems and can
| accurately behave according to the laws of nature. Unscrew an
| important connector from a simulated jet engine and it will stop
| running.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6333/1/
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