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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

vanderZwan wrote: post #76

> Accessibility is important to us. Whatever your abilities are, if you want to fly, we are going to do whatever we can to make that happen. Yoke and pedals, mouse and keyboard, controller, etc. No pilot should be left behind. Although not needing it myself, as an interaction designer I was really impressed by the accessibility support for the Xbox One[0]. Glad to see Microsoft keep up their commitment to this! [0] h…

Microsoft's advancement in accessibility support has found itself new respect from me. I wish they expand their commitment to general computing apart from gaming.

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by carey »

flyingfences wrote: post #207
foo101 wrote: post #4

The 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?

The YouTube app that’s built in to my DVR has major issues with anything wider that 16:9; for something very wide and not letterboxed like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lztj7kFIMhA, it gets displayed small and windowboxed on my normal 1080p TV. Possibly there’s some outdated targeting of the lowest common denominator by these companies.

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Post by selimthegrim »

djsumdog wrote: post #41
nightbrawler wrote: post #27

Spent countless hours flying around with FS as a kid. A friend and I would also connect up our computers over dialup and fly around together. Did anyone participate with any virtual airlines on AOL way back in the day?

On Prodigy, there were boards where people would log their flight time on FS4, F-15 Strike Eagle (Microprose) and other sims/games. People would hand out ranks and medals too.

F-15 Strike Eagle II was the first game I ever played on a computer. I wrote an indignant handwritten letter to Sid Meier c/o Microprose praising the game but demanding a replacement floppy when the one with the desert storm expansion got lost. (My mom let me send it after editing out my “By the way...” preceding the request.)

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Post by doener »

hestefisk wrote: post #214
RankingMember wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love this. Reminds me of the happy parts of my childhood, though my imaginary excursions were more automotive/train based (with simulated accidents which my passengers did not appreciate).

I think there was also a Train Simulator by MS? :)

Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Train_Simulator

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Post by redsparrow »

gnrlst wrote: post #17

Story 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…

I stuck to continental trips. I wasn't very good at landing so just drove instead. I had fun plotting the trips and coming back later to fine-tune my direction and finally arrive (never having left the ground...) I don't remember which version it was, but apparently it was one that was flat and without much water.

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Post by dmos62 »

mopsi wrote: post #179
dmos62 wrote: post #64

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I'm stunned. Imagine all this tech was open-source. The projects people would make.

It is not open source, however, the platform is very open and a large ecosystem of third-party developers has existed for decades. It is like Windows vs third-party software. Windows isn't open-source, but people can still use it for amazing projects that go far beyond what Windows offers out of the box (e.g. MS Paint vs Photoshop).

Microsoft had a brutal effect on IT through its anti-competitive practices, especially in its earlier years, when it was extremely influential. Lookup "embrace, extend, extinguish" and the memorable quote "Linux is a cancer".

I can appreciate that the simulator offers a modder friendly environment, but really that's comparing a prison yard to a forest.

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Post by blunte »

falsedan wrote: post #208
blunte wrote: post #130

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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??

That was a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_port

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Post by ecmascript »

jillesvangurp wrote: post #200
ecmascript wrote: post #92

I just watched the trailer and holy goat shit that looks amazing. Great job!

I agree. It looks like they make full use of assets they would have access to for Bing maps. A lot of the progress in e.g. x-plane in recent year has been the use of map data, satellite images, and other geospatial data to generate highly detailed scenery. I have close to half a terabyte worth of auto generated scenery with high resolution satellite imagery, 3d meshes, and open streetmaps based positioning of roads,…

Yes I would love an explaination on how they actually solved it technically, it would be very interesting. Microsoft has really, really upped their game recently in terms of quality.

Sadly they also have upped their tracking but but, it is still pretty awesome.

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Post by breakingcups »

blunte wrote: post #227
falsedan wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice. Dear gods I forgot what nonsense plugs were before USB. Did it plug into a? MIDI? port??

That was a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_port

Which, incidentally, can be used as a MIDI port with a converter cable.

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Post by gadders »

thesehands wrote: post #202
gadders wrote: post #120

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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

Thanks! I tried to search myself to no avail. I was hoping if I threw it out there someone would find it :-)
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