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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 yamtaddle »

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…

You can play Wolfenstein 3D in one of the recent Wolfenstein games. IIRC it's presented as an arcade machine, but it seemed like the whole game was there (I played quite a bit of it, but didn't finish before bailing back out to the "real" game).

Tried to find a TVTropes for this kind of thing, but couldn't. Surprised, seems like there'd be one.

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

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Post by yamtaddle »

fasterik wrote: post #117
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?

If I recall, you could play Crash Bandicoot in one of the Uncharted games (both made by Naughty Dog).

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. It's not the whole game, IIRC, but a few levels here and there.

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

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

rkagerer wrote: post #48
Liquix wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No credit is owed, no thanks are due. This is an unavoidable effect of usuing the MIT license over something like GPL. Andrew Tanenbaum on choosing MIT for the MINIX project, which was used by Intel + the IC as a base for the Intel Management Engine (emphasis mine): "The only thing that would have been nice is that after the project had been finished and the chip deployed, that someone from Intel would have told me,…

Thanks for relaying that ought-to-be canonical example. It may not be owed/due, but common decency suggests you give a heads up. In Intel's case I'm guessing there was a contending motive in that they preferred not to draw attention to it.

You can put that clause in your license! Something like:

  If you use this software in a commercial product, you are required to
  make an attempt to send me an e-mail letting me know about it, 
  because it's just nice to know.
Of course that would piss off the lawyers because now if a developer uses your software and doesn't e-mail you, you could sue them. But it's not like big companies always respect licenses anyway :)

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

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Post by WorldMaker »

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?

Super Mario Brothers 3 had the original (non-"Super") Mario Brothers arcade game embedded in it. (If the second player tried to visit the same spot as the first player on the map, it would jump to the arcade game like a little competitive mini-game.)

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

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Post by rsanaie »

Thank you Sebastian for building this game in the first place. Every I'm sitting in an airplane waiting to take off on the runway, it takes me back to my childhood memories. I'm putting myself in the pilot's seat, imagining I'm adjusting the flaps (F7), increasing thrust (F3), and taking the brakes off (.) and we have lift off!

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

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Post by flobosg »

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?

GoldenEye 007 has a fully functional ZX Spectrum emulator with several Rare games: https://www.therwp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48139

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

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Post by meibo »

BudaDude wrote: post #129
mynameisvlad wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not economical anymore, if you can instead slowly trickle them out to your paying subscribers at two games a month, to then end up at 10% of the library your previous console had when you discontinue it.

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

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Post by nightski »

geocrasher wrote: post #104

How cool is that! I remember FS4 (and FS5) well, having logged hundreds of hours in FS4 as a kid, and many more unlogged hours. In fact, in the early 90's, I was one of the first people in a Virtual Airline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_airline_(hobby) Not just the first VA, but one of the first few people in the VA. I was tasked with "designing" aircraft for use with our VA. When FS5 came out, you could mod…

I wonder how many are in a similar boat. I grew up playing a ton of MSFS, Fly!, Flight Unlimited, Falcon 4, Combat Flight Sim, etc... Every major MSFS version was a huge deal. I remember having a high school event the evening MSFS2k came out and couldn't wait to get home to play it.

I was part of a few VAs as well, the community was so nice. One of my first software projects as an optimal flight route planner using publicly available data sets. It was one of the key stepping stones to learning to code in my early days.

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

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Post by denton-scratch »

denton-scratch wrote: post #105

I thought Easter eggs had been deprecated years ago; non-functional code, increased bloat, increased attack surface. To link in a complete game emulation as an EE seems - stupid. It's apparently not the OP's fault; he just wrote it, he didn't link it into the product.

I'm fine with being downvoted; I don't post for popularity. But I appreciate it if there's some comment about what I said wrong; like, perhaps my opinion was mistaken, or used inappropriate language, or was off-topic.
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