I have been using X-Plane on Mac OS X for awhile. Previous X-Plane 8 betas let you fly for 20 minutes and after that the joystick was disabled. Now it's down to 6 min. as the final release draws in.
The reason I use X-Plane is because it's developed on a Mac, and is well supported and it just the best out there. I like FlightGear because it's open source but other than that X-Plane is a lot better. Hopefully in the future I'll actually be able to do a full build of FGFS without so many problems. :) On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:48:39 +0100, Boris Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Berndt wrote: > > Looks like X-Plane is finally going Linux - not just the support apps, but > > the whole > > thing. I guess there's even a beta available. Anyone try it, yet? > > I think it's only a demo ? > > On the other hand the description of the upcoming v. 8.0 release > sounds indeed VERY promising: http://www.x-plane.com/v8descrip.html > > So, I am about to download it - unfortunately the download is only > offered as BitTorrent (shared) down-/upload so far: > > http://bt.markal.net/bt/torrents/XLIN800B15.tar.bz2.torrent > > Some of the changes or rather announcements sound really like damn > good advertisement - what really surprised me when I read the changelog: > > ...it seems that Austin Meyer has just recently discovered the arts of > OOP and using the STL with C++ - maybe I didn't get something right, > but my impression is really that SO FAR, X-Plane was merely using > procedural design :-O ? > > If that's true, it's even more amazing that he managed to write such > a complex application using merely procedural techniques... > > Obviously, he was just recently shown how to do OOP - taking into > account that Austin Meyer has written X-Plane for a long time > all by himself, it's really amazing how a "one man show" can > yield such astounding results. > > Now that X-Plane is not only becoming OOP but also other developers > get involved, one can probably expect a lot of cool stuff from them > within the near future. > > FlightGear is probably lucky because X-Plane isn't open source ;-) > > --------- > Boris > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > -- <Arthur/> _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
