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There is also FlightGear that is still being developed and is published under GPL. https://www.flightgear.org/ https://www.flightgear.org/

by boudin 6y ago

Tarq0n 6y ago
There's some classic internet drama going on in their "info" section.
- numpad0 6y ago
  Believing FlightGear team’s account, looks like they think copyright is a thing, while evil FGMEMBERS team thinks copyright don’t apply to free stuff? Interesting
- wolfgke 6y ago
  Link is under Posts -> Info and links to https://www.flightgear.org/category/info/ https://www.flightgear.org/category/info/
  - app4soft 6y ago
    > https://www.flightgear.org/info/fgmembers-statement/ https://www.flightgear.org/info/fgmembers-statement/ Good drama which show deep misinterpretation of GNU GPL terms by official FlightGear team.
    - slavak 6y ago
      I see no misinterpretation of the GPL here. The document explains why the FG team thinks FGMEMBERS is harmful and a bad idea; at no point that I can see did they imply what FGMEMBERS are doing was illegal. Care to elaborate?
qwe098cube 6y ago
TempleOS also has a flight simulator, with a banger soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYQEfLaR4Pg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYQEfLaR4Pg
- jeffrallen 6y ago
  Needs more cowbell.
- ralfd 6y ago
  A few glitches but not unimpressive.
- wiz21c 6y ago
  Memories... I miss Terry a lot.
- ksaj 6y ago
  At first I was thinking that there was a lot of unlikely stunt piloting going on. Then the bird legs came out for the landing. I don't know if he was the smartest programmer who ever lived, but he certainly was one of the more dedicated and interesting ones.
hnarn 6y ago
Downloading it now, pretty underwhelming being redirected to SourceForge and now downloading 1.6 GB at 350 KB/s. They really should have official torrents.
- kbenson 6y ago
  They have a list of FTP mirrors[1], and I saw exe's listed there under 2020.1, so maybe one of those will work better? 1: https://www.flightgear.org/download/mirror/ https://www.flightgear.org/download/mirror/
  - hnarn 6y ago
    That worked a lot better, thanks.
- anthk 6y ago
  Just download the base, the models can be autodownloader from the launcher and the terrain is automatically fetch too.
app4soft 6y ago
> There is also FlightGear that is still being developed and is published under GPL. FlightGear is nice & powerful, but actually is too heavy and require modern PC. BTW, There is Vertigo page on FlightGear Wiki.[0] JFTR, There is also open-source ACM 6.0[1] (enchanched fork of ACM 5.0[2]) — classic old-school 3D flight simulator. [0] http://wiki.flightgear.org/images/cache/2/2b/Vertigo_%2528flight_sim%2529.html http://wiki.flightgear.org/images/cache/2/2b/Vertigo_%2528fl... [1] http://www.icosaedro.it/acm/download.html http://www.icosaedro.it/acm/download.html [2] https://wiki.flightgear.org/ACM_%28flight_sim%29 https://wiki.flightgear.org/ACM_%28flight_sim%29
- themodelplumber 6y ago
  I play Flightgear on a ThinkPad T420 a couple times a week and get 30-60fps. It's just a matter of adjusting rendering settings. The feeling of flight doesn't change much. Keyboard flight controls work fine too... Not sure if that's a modern PC in your mind, but it's not exactly a speed demon. :-)
  - app4soft 6y ago
    > I play FlightGear Version/Platform? > on a ThinkPad T420 This is not cheap PC. Try run FlightGear on cheap laptops produced before 2010.
    - themodelplumber 6y ago
      Wow, 11 years? That's getting pretty far back. Still, I wonder...my FG settings are low but not terribly low. I would guess it could be done. For example, I'm not using the 2D cockpit. Edit: 2019.1.1/Linux
      - app4soft 6y ago
        > Wow, 11 years? As for me, if desktop software can't properly work under Linux on cheap 10-year-old laptop then this is not good enough or not optimized app at all. > I'm not using the 2D cockpit. Because it will drop FPS under 30 FPS, right?

There is also FlightGear that is still being developed and is published under GPL. https://www.flightgear.org/ https://www.flightgear.org/

by boudin 6y ago

There is also FlightGear that is still being developed and is published under GPL. https://www.flightgear.org/ https://www.flightgear.org/

Tarq0n 6y ago

There's some classic internet drama going on in their "info" section.

numpad0 6y ago
Believing FlightGear team’s account, looks like they think copyright is a thing, while evil FGMEMBERS team thinks copyright don’t apply to free stuff? Interesting
wolfgke 6y ago
Link is under Posts -> Info and links to https://www.flightgear.org/category/info/ https://www.flightgear.org/category/info/
- app4soft 6y ago
  > https://www.flightgear.org/info/fgmembers-statement/ https://www.flightgear.org/info/fgmembers-statement/ Good drama which show deep misinterpretation of GNU GPL terms by official FlightGear team.
  - slavak 6y ago
    I see no misinterpretation of the GPL here. The document explains why the FG team thinks FGMEMBERS is harmful and a bad idea; at no point that I can see did they imply what FGMEMBERS are doing was illegal. Care to elaborate?

qwe098cube 6y ago

TempleOS also has a flight simulator, with a banger soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYQEfLaR4Pg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYQEfLaR4Pg

jeffrallen 6y ago
Needs more cowbell.
ralfd 6y ago
A few glitches but not unimpressive.
wiz21c 6y ago
Memories... I miss Terry a lot.
ksaj 6y ago
At first I was thinking that there was a lot of unlikely stunt piloting going on. Then the bird legs came out for the landing. I don't know if he was the smartest programmer who ever lived, but he certainly was one of the more dedicated and interesting ones.

hnarn 6y ago

Downloading it now, pretty underwhelming being redirected to SourceForge and now downloading 1.6 GB at 350 KB/s. They really should have official torrents.

kbenson 6y ago
They have a list of FTP mirrors[1], and I saw exe's listed there under 2020.1, so maybe one of those will work better? 1: https://www.flightgear.org/download/mirror/ https://www.flightgear.org/download/mirror/
- hnarn 6y ago
  That worked a lot better, thanks.
anthk 6y ago
Just download the base, the models can be autodownloader from the launcher and the terrain is automatically fetch too.

app4soft 6y ago

> There is also FlightGear that is still being developed and is published under GPL. FlightGear is nice & powerful, but actually is too heavy and require modern PC. BTW, There is Vertigo page on FlightGear Wiki.[0] JFTR, There is also open-source ACM 6.0[1] (enchanched fork of ACM 5.0[2]) — classic old-school 3D flight simulator. [0] http://wiki.flightgear.org/images/cache/2/2b/Vertigo_%2528flight_sim%2529.html http://wiki.flightgear.org/images/cache/2/2b/Vertigo_%2528fl... [1] http://www.icosaedro.it/acm/download.html http://www.icosaedro.it/acm/download.html [2] https://wiki.flightgear.org/ACM_%28flight_sim%29 https://wiki.flightgear.org/ACM_%28flight_sim%29

themodelplumber 6y ago
I play Flightgear on a ThinkPad T420 a couple times a week and get 30-60fps. It's just a matter of adjusting rendering settings. The feeling of flight doesn't change much. Keyboard flight controls work fine too... Not sure if that's a modern PC in your mind, but it's not exactly a speed demon. :-)
- app4soft 6y ago
  > I play FlightGear Version/Platform? > on a ThinkPad T420 This is not cheap PC. Try run FlightGear on cheap laptops produced before 2010.
  - themodelplumber 6y ago
    Wow, 11 years? That's getting pretty far back. Still, I wonder...my FG settings are low but not terribly low. I would guess it could be done. For example, I'm not using the 2D cockpit. Edit: 2019.1.1/Linux
    - app4soft 6y ago
      > Wow, 11 years? As for me, if desktop software can't properly work under Linux on cheap 10-year-old laptop then this is not good enough or not optimized app at all. > I'm not using the 2D cockpit. Because it will drop FPS under 30 FPS, right?