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I remember playing Skiing on my TRS-80 Color Computer in 1980 and being pretty impressed by the (crude) 3D graphics: https://youtu.be/ex1QblMz_nU?t=404
I remember playing Skiing on my TRS-80 Color Computer in 1980 and being pretty impressed by the (crude) 3D graphics: https://youtu.be/ex1QblMz_nU?t=404
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BeamNG has some interesting ideas for future simulators to take note of: https://youtu.be/ZBwGK2zuNOk It's a "worst case scenario" idea for driving simulation, where each piece can be deformed and tracked to implement various features. As a result, the driving feels more like a collection of pieces rather than one mesh with consistent acceleration. It's subtle during regular gameplay, but emerges excellently in high-…
> Hopefully the next frontier in simulation titles is distilling these simulation ideas into mechanics that are both fun and accurate. I think the real reason is that the compute power required for this is not quite there yet. I remember about 15 years ago, people were floating around the idea that in the future (once we get more compute power) videogames will not be using hard-coded animations for basic actions in g…
Anyone else remember f/18 hornet for the Mac back in the 90s? It was set in the Middle East and landing on the aircraft carrier was always difficult.
Interestingly I've always thought that Elite was the first game with 3d graphics, but the timeline doesn't seem to agree. Elite was developed in 1982 (published in 1984), while MSFS was developed in 1976. I wonder why Elite is still considered by many to be the first game with 3d graphics. https://www.frontier.co.uk/our-games/our-gameography/elite > "Elite set many firsts, and was the first genuine 3D game on home co…
Your quote says “on home computers”. IBM PCs, on which MSFS ran on, were not considered home computers [0]. In the 1990s, home computers were finally displaced by the PC (and by consoles) for gaming, and the PC effectively took over the role that home computers used to serve. But the term “home computer” wasn’t used any more, at least partly because PCs were always also business computers. [0] https://en.wikipedia.or…
Interestingly I've always thought that Elite was the first game with 3d graphics, but the timeline doesn't seem to agree. Elite was developed in 1982 (published in 1984), while MSFS was developed in 1976. I wonder why Elite is still considered by many to be the first game with 3d graphics. https://www.frontier.co.uk/our-games/our-gameography/elite > "Elite set many firsts, and was the first genuine 3D game on home co…
Your quote says “on home computers”. IBM PCs, on which MSFS ran on, were not considered home computers [0]. In the 1990s, home computers were finally displaced by the PC (and by consoles) for gaming, and the PC effectively took over the role that home computers used to serve. But the term “home computer” wasn’t used any more, at least partly because PCs were always also business computers. [0] https://en.wikipedia.or…
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Your quote says “on home computers”. IBM PCs, on which MSFS ran on, were not considered home computers [0]. In the 1990s, home computers were finally displaced by the PC (and by consoles) for gaming, and the PC effectively took over the role that home computers used to serve. But the term “home computer” wasn’t used any more, at least partly because PCs were always also business computers. [0] https://en.wikipedia.or…
Even on home computers, Psion Flight Simulator would have been earlier than Elite, although calling the graphics in Psion's '3D' is perhaps stretching the term a little far.
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I always wondered how it worked. It seems to me that with its limited hardware, it can only display ground features, not whole 3D surroundings. Am I completely wrong? Is it something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umZYSY1fSQk
"that video isn't available any more" :( it was really basic (but awesome for its time). You basically flew over a flat grid - literally a grid - so the only thing "3d" about it was that you could see this 3d grid rotating and moving about. At one edge of the grid was a 2D "mountain" which was orthogonal to the ground-grid. I found a screenshot here: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/39/85/9c/39859c5ccf2e08207f72... If…
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"that video isn't available any more" :( it was really basic (but awesome for its time). You basically flew over a flat grid - literally a grid - so the only thing "3d" about it was that you could see this 3d grid rotating and moving about. At one edge of the grid was a 2D "mountain" which was orthogonal to the ground-grid. I found a screenshot here: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/39/85/9c/39859c5ccf2e08207f72... If…
I remember on the Apple II that I played SubLogic Flight Simulator on, there was a dogfight mode. I've been flying virtually ever since and I'm about to complete my first trip around the world in MSFS2020 in VR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvvfJ60gIf0
I actually learned to fly IRL (didn’t finish my PPL sadly - maybe one day) but I learned to land properly by spending hours and hours and hours in X-Plane on my laptop, with a proper yoke and pedals.
My instructor couldn’t believe how much I had improved in just a week.
I was also really good with instrument flying :)