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FlightSimGuy

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    Comment #37248155

    Nice video. Sorry I missed last Thurs. Couldn't be helped. I hope to join tomorrow about 7PM Central/ 8PM Eastern. I can't get home any sooner than that so I will miss the 1st hr o…

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    Comment #37127373

    Yes, I think so. I mean I downloaded it and I think it's working right but I don't have much experience with it. They use mumble for voice and that's FOSS too. Do you have it worki…

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    Comment #37120248

    Yes. That was Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator II and it was the best of the series IMHO. I spent a LOT of time with that classic old sim and I still have my copy. It runs on LINU…

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    Comment #37120119

    If this is a reference to the gameplay of LAC then I want to get my view in here. LAC has very very very good gameplay. You can't build your own character, but you can just jump in…

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    Comment #37119599

    "The feeling of flight is what I really enjoy. It just feels right! And very smooth response to flight controls." Yes. This. I am planning to try joining the group this Thursday ev…

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    Comment #37017872

    Still having a blast with LAC in the tutorial and offline missions. I fiddled around mapping my controls but after a lot of changes I just went back to the defaults. Had to get use…

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    Comment #37006267

    TCA looks like a fine piece of software. I'm going to try it. But I prefer WW2 airplanes over modern ones. And I'm have a BLAST learning LAC. There is a lot of depth here. And LOTS…

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    Comment #37005909

    They have a new version out for beta testing. It looks like they've had recent complaints about compatibility. Like people that didn't have a joystick. And some people that applied…

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    Comment #36978432

    I didn't know the source code for ysflight was ever published. That's great news! Is the source code for Tiny Combat Arena released too?

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    Comment #36971827

    I haven't played Tiny Combat Arena but their video promos look very much like ysflight, which I have played a lot. I mean Tiny Combat Arena really looks very very much like ysfligh…

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    Comment #36971514

    LAC is not Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, but I've flown both and I get the same kind of thrill with both. CYAC was brilliant in its day and it was my fav for 3 or 4 years. But that wa…

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    Comment #36971131

    Yes. It does look surprisingly good for such a small AppImage. Digging around on their forums, I found this thread describing their struggle to thrive in spite of the old-school gr…

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    Comment #36970969

    Yes. Only LAC's improvement is even more because GL-117 didn't even have any network support. It was all offline. LAC is fundamentally an online, multi-player rewrite of GL-117 wit…

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    Comment #36970933

    Yes. I played it and I liked it. It reminded me very much of Aces High "classic" or its successor, Aces High 2.

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    Comment #36960438

    I just discovered this. IMHO the best link about LAC is this one -> https://askmisterwizard.com/2019/LinuxAirCombat/LacOnlineDoc... Pretty much everything about LAC is easy to find…

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    Comment #36960141

    But I certainly agree that Aces High 3 is magnificent on Micro$oft Windows.

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    Comment #36960109

    I wonder if Aces High 3 works well on LINUX thru an emulator like WINE. And I wonder if you'd need a monster computer to get a smooth frame rate through emulation like that. LAC, B…

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    Comment #36960034

    ...only for LINUX, of course!

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    Comment #36960013

    LAC looks and flies a lot like Aces High 1 (from back around 2005 or so).

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    Comment #36959966

    Me too! And Aces High 1, Aces High 2, and Aces High 3....

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    Comment #36954475

    Here is a link to the online reviews from SourceForge, by people that HAVE played it: https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxaircombat/reviews/