https://www.youtube.com/user/Airforceproud95
This youtuber does some funny videos about ATC in a video-game. His efforts are a great mix of hopelessness and real ATC skill. A good video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeC0ZTT8n7E
Microsoft Flight Simulator
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#202Story time: as a kid I would use FS to do intercontinental flights with my cousin. My (small) room would be divided in two: passenger seating, and cockpit. We would sit down at my computer and take turns flying. I would convince my little sisters to sit down in the passenger area which were two chairs behind a curtain (they for some reason found it less entertaining than we did and often decided to leave early in the…
There was a sketch show in the UK called The Fast Show, and they had a character in it called Colin Hunt who was the office "joker". One of the episodes showed him flying a female colleague to the Seychelles on a flight simulator in his living room. I wish I could find the video clip.
https://youtu.be/cBjpROfzoos?t=14m20s because I both love the fast show and a challenge
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#203Developed by Asobo Studio[1], french video games studio in Bordeaux. I used to work there, top engineers, confident they'll do a good job. [1] https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2019/06/17/ce-que-les-...
French video game company with a Japanese name producing a major software title for an American company that sells worldwide.
That might seem unremarkable by today's standards, with practically everything being global in nature, but I appreciate details like this — logiciels sans frontières !
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#204https://www.youtube.com/user/Airforceproud95 This youtuber does some funny videos about ATC in a video-game. His efforts are a great mix of hopelessness and real ATC skill. A good video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeC0ZTT8n7E
Butter.
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#205In the 80s, I used to play the subLOGIC Flight Simulator II on my father's Apple //e. Later, I wondered whether this was a predecessor to Microsoft's Flight Simulator. Apparently it sort of was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Simulator_II_(subLOGIC)
Played this as a kid (or it's predecessor FS1 perhaps?) with wireframe graphics only on an Olivetti M21 with monochrome screen.
subLOGIC also released another very addictive game, "Night Mission Pinball".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ttoAfg7Ehc
These two games were my first encounter with PC gaming, along with the Infocom games (zork etc).
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#207The trailer link on this page is very impressive. Here is the direct link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReDDgFfWlS4
The game looks impressive!
As an aside, how do major companies - computer graphics companies especially - still upload letterboxed videos? If I'm watching a 21:9 video on a 21:9 monitor, there shouldn't be black bars on all four sides; it should fill the screen. The entire video was shrunk down just so that the final five seconds could be a green-colored screen with a little xbox logo in the center?
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the old MS joystick that had a throttle, extra buttons, and especially the yaw twist capability of the stick The sidewinder? I don’t remember it having a throttle though https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SideWinder#3D_Pro Looks like there were relaunched and you can still get USB models from retailers.
Yes, that's the one! There were at least to versions (generations?) - at least one had a slider, and the other had a dome shaped knob; both worked for throttle. https://www.x-fish.org/blog_picture/110607_01.jpg
Nice. Dear gods I forgot what nonsense plugs were before USB. Did it plug into a? MIDI? port??
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#209The trailer link on this page is very impressive. Here is the direct link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReDDgFfWlS4
The game looks impressive! As an aside, how do major companies - computer graphics companies especially - still upload letterboxed videos? If I'm watching a 21:9 video on a 21:9 monitor, there shouldn't be black bars on all four sides; it should fill the screen. The entire video was shrunk down just so that the final five seconds could be a green-colored screen with a little xbox logo in the center?
Ultrawidify on Firefox is doing a pretty good job at stretching it out to 21:9 (dynamically so it switches on the xBox logo part).
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#210Looks like quite a bit of the footage was not actually from the simulator but real-life 4K footage. The end of the video shows more of the rendered simulation. But all in all, I feel the video started off a bit misleading.
Still looks cool, but wish they would be more honest in the marketing of it.