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My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by trynewideas »

forgotpwd16 wrote: post #75
s-macke wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly, I mean more "strongly typed". The opposite is JavaScript, which is weakly typed. When speed matters and every bit is important, it is a bad idea to write an emulator in a weakly typed language. I have corrected the text.

C, although statically typed, is considered weakly typed as well.

"Strong" and "weak" are ambiguous terms for typing. OP is using it one way (static typing is "stronger" than dynamic typing; static typing is "strength"). I'm assuming a little bit here, but I think you're using it another way (allowing type casting is "weak"; type safety is "strength").

Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by MostlyInnocent »

ilyt wrote: post #14
s-macke wrote: post #6

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Yes, I was not informed about it. But I think that's fair. I didn't ask them either before I published the project. Please, don't make it a license issue. I developed it for fun.

Well, the MIT license worked exactly as it was written.

I'm pretty sure that declaring https://github.com/s-macke/FSHistory/tree/master/data to be MIT-licensed does not actually make it so... (these are disk images of the relevant FS releases, which are still under copyright as well as provided under a proprietary MIT-incompatible license)

TL;DR: A Microsoft contractor basically endorsed piracy, in a weirdly-recursive-enough-to-be-legal way...

Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by salmo »

s-macke wrote: post #120
erwincoumans wrote: post #73

That's cool! Like playing classic Doom inside Doom 3. Is there a list of games that let you play older versions from within?

The adventure game "Day of the Tentacle" had the previous version of "Maniac Mansion" included. According to Wikipedia [1] it was the first time you could play the predecessor game in a newer version. The whole original Maniac Mansion game can be played on a computer resembling a Commodore 64 inside the Day of the Tentacle game; this practice has since been repeated by other game developers, but at the time of Day of…

I played Maniac Mansion the first time that way. I never got it originally, but played Day of the Tentacle and got side tracked finishing that game inside the game.

Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by dcow »

lupire wrote: post #97
luch wrote: post #19

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Microsoft is not the developer here, it has been outsourced to a game studio : https://www.asobostudio.com/games/microsoft-flight-simulator But the remark still stand, and I hope OP has been correctly credited for it.

Strange that Microsoft's contractor used OP's project in their game, but didn't bother to let him know.

Do you contact the authors of every one of your dependencies before using them in your works?

Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by bityard »

porbelm wrote: post #53
terinjokes wrote: post #51

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> read instruments Your altimeter reads FL090, your compass reads 245. Airspeed is at 120 knots, pitch is 10 above the horizon. Engine is at 70% power. You hear a kitten meow on guard. > read instruments Your altimeter reads FL090, your compass reads 245. Airspeed is at 70 knots, pitch is 20 above the horizon. Engine is at 70% power. You hear a stall warning.

> yoke forward > throttle max Scary stuff, this could work!

There are air traffic control simulators which are somewhat like this

Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by mynameisvlad »

erwincoumans wrote: post #73

That's cool! Like playing classic Doom inside Doom 3. Is there a list of games that let you play older versions from within?

Not quite an older version of itself, but the original Animal Crossing on Gamecube had a whole NES emulator built in, with several games available.

https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/NES_Games

Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by ipython »

ChoGGi wrote: post #81
ClassyJacket wrote: post #44

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It was. The popular text adventure format at the time just doesn't work well in a flight simulator for some reason.

You don't need graphics for a simulator. https://archive.org/details/msdos_747-400_Precision_Simulato...

I read through Don Eyles apollo memoir Sunburst and Luminary- great book. In the book he describes their simulator for the lunar landing (essentially a test harness for the landing code) which consisted of inputs of coordinates and speeds, and gave printed output of thrust changes and expected position over time. Mind blowing for someone so used to visual representations.

Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by BudaDude »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #126
erwincoumans wrote: post #73

That's cool! Like playing classic Doom inside Doom 3. Is there a list of games that let you play older versions from within?

Not quite an older version of itself, but the original Animal Crossing on Gamecube had a whole NES emulator built in, with several games available. https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/NES_Games

This was such a genius idea. As a kid who grew up poor, this gave me access to a number of games I would never gotten to play.

I wish more games did this.

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