I have subscribed to the aviator mailing list but am getting
nothing at all.
Specifically, are there any more aircraft descriptions and
scenery available?
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What is Aviator? If it is a flight simulator for Sun, could someone
tell where to get it (if freeware)!
And if someone knows other fligth simulators for Sun, please let me know!
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Here is a blurp from Aviator's man page;
DESCRIPTION
aviator is an advanced realtime networked flight simulator program for
the Sun GX family of workstations. aviator offers highly detailed and
accurate terrain graphics using USGS data and aircraft dynamics.
>tell where to get it (if freeware)!
Not exactly, more like teaseware, but price at ~$50 a seat.
>And if someone knows other fligth simulators for Sun, please let me know!
Email ahi-in...@ahi.com for more Aviator info and yes there is
a PD flight sim out there (something like ACM) look for on archie.
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Uh, what name do we use for a search pattern in archie?
Thanks
Ted
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It should work on any X-windows machine, but really needs quite a bit
of cpu (and graphics) performance to do well, even though the graphics
is VERY simple (no fancy landscape with mountains and valleys to fly
around in this one, buy Aviator if you want that :-).
I'm using a hacked version that will redraw the screen as often as possible
(instead of using a compiled-in update rate as in the original source),
on a SparcStation IPX this results in 12 to 18 frames per second
depending on how much there is to paint on the screen.
(A SparcStation IPC without the GX graphics can handle about 4 fps,
a HP 720 easily goes over 30 fps.)
The best part with ACM is that you can dogfight against a friend, the
worst part is that it gets slower when more players are connected :-(
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Mats Lofkvist
d87...@nada.kth.se
I know it is on ftp.UU.NET:
pub/window-sys/X/contrib:
-rw-r--r-- 1 archive 240457 Sep 21 1991 acm.2.4.tar.Z
Screen updates are awful on 386's (SCO Unix), Sun 3/[568]0's and
probably other non-risc machines.
(I have too many hours flying it to be objective, a friend nearly lost
his job because he had more hours than I on this game.)
Good Luck.
Tommy
Seems to me ACM is worth a look... Does a good ol' netter know how to
extract files in TAR format? The UNIX manual is not very helpful in
this case...
Thanks in advance!
Regards, ACM lover-to-be :) (Edward Asbun)
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Will it work on Sparc SLC's? (not color)
>Mats Lofkvist
>d87...@nada.kth.se
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For files in tar and compressed format, try the following:
zcat <filename> | tar -xvf -
Be sure to do this in a /tmp directory. :)
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Will it [ACM] work on Sparc SLC's? (not color)
Yes.