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Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

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Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

#12

Yeah, I don't think "lightweight" is very honest when the game looks like this.

Sure it is. Nothing in the word "lightweight" implies stellar graphics. If anything, it implies that heavy and nonessential things (like cutting-edge graphics) are totally out of scope.

Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

#13

Yeah, I don't think "lightweight" is very honest when the game looks like this.

Claims RPi can handle it, so if true then it's a reasonable claim (depending upon how much you have to disable to get it to work well).

It's not like it's claiming to work on a 8MB 486 or similar.

Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

#15
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Interesting that they decided to stick with Sourceforge after the malware debacle.

Sourceforge has new owners AFAIR.

And by "new" we mean since 2016 - the current owners own Sourceforge for almost double the time the previous owners that bundled malware did :-P

Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

#16
post #2

Interesting that they decided to stick with Sourceforge after the malware debacle.

SF has been through like 2 or 3 owners since then, ancient history at this point.

It was only sold once after the debacle, the new owners just changed names at some point.

Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

#17

Looks as if OpenGL support was added to Temple OS.

Amazing how low the bar is for FOSS games on Linux.

open source doesn’t really mesh well with artists, so most open source games just have terrible graphical assets

Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazing how low the bar is for FOSS games on Linux.

open source doesn’t really mesh well with artists, so most open source games just have terrible graphical assets

Yes, like Flare, sure.

Saying that it's like saying every AAA game it's like an unoptimized Ubisoft crap.

Re: Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

#20

Looks as if OpenGL support was added to Temple OS.

Amazing how low the bar is for FOSS games on Linux.

One of the most sold games ever has blocky graphics not much better than a boosted SNES on 3D.

Do you realize this graphics settings are done on retro purposes?

Go check Flightgear videos with ALS settings and graphics to the max. It might not be MSFS, but for something that also runs under an HD3000 iGPU/UHD600, the graphics are astounding for a community based project.

Also, MSFS gets rendered assets and maps from Bing maps, something Flightgear did with Google Maps with a custom build... 10 years ago.

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