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RE: The "Flight Sim for Mac" Protest! - 1/9/2008 1:39:08 AM   
jimbyjoe


 

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Status: offline 		OK well i've installed XP on my Mac and am running it via Parallels. So i've installed FMS (the flight sim that comes with Esky stuff), but when i try to run it I get an error message and need to close it, with the option of sending it, which I didn't.
Am tempted to see if it will run on my work PC but I could probably get found out for putting non-work stuff on....working for the Government does have its downsides...
k

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RE: The "Flight Sim for Mac" Protest! - 1/9/2008 4:15:35 AM   
macuser


 

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Status: offline 		From what I've read on other flight sim, gaming and RC sites, these simulators will only work on Macs with BootCamp, and not with VMWare or Parallels.
check www.rcgroups.com

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RE: The "Flight Sim for Mac" Protest! - 1/9/2008 4:50:30 AM   
macuser


 

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Status: offline 		Check out a review for 5 flight simulators in winter 2008 edition of Radio Control Helicopter. The article is geared for heli fanatics, but'll give some insights to others. It includes: Aerofly Professional Deluxe, Hangar 9 FS One, Phoenix R/C Flight Simulator, Great Planes Realflight G3.5, and MRC's Reflex XTR. The authors give a one page layout for each game and rate Realflight's the best for beginners and XTR as more suitable for intermediate to experts. FS One is more catered towards fixed wing aircraft they say, and Phoenix's flight sim is the cheapest and most versatile. Aerofly P.D. has great graphics, excellent physics, and lots of heli models to choose from. Hope this is of some help to those thinking of buying a new flight sim game.

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RE: The "Flight Sim for Mac" Protest! - 1/31/2008 1:29:45 AM   
bigbird007



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Status: offline 		First of all, put me down for a Mac RC flight sim!

Second, Boris, thanks for the link to the Mac software and keep up the good work!

I recently bought a Mac Pro quad core 3GHZ and a 20" cinema display. I've installed XP (and curse it every time it quits) and Realflight G3.5. I'm impressed, outside the klunky windows interface it works well. I've got everything maxed out and it's very smooth. This is my first RC sim for the simple reason that I wouldn't buy a windows machine. Works for me.

I believe I've read that there is software out there to port windows software to intel Macs without starting over, not so?

Bigbird



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RE: The "Flight Sim for Mac" Protest! - 1/31/2008 2:01:55 AM   
jimbyjoe


 

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quote:

ORIGINAL: bigbird007

I recently bought a Mac Pro quad core 3GHZ and a 20" cinema display. I've installed XP (and curse it every time it quits) and Realflight G3.5. I'm impressed, outside the klunky windows interface it works well. I've got everything maxed out and it's very smooth. This is my first RC sim for the simple reason that I wouldn't buy a windows machine. Works for me.

I believe I've read that there is software out there to port windows software to intel Macs without starting over, not so?
Bigbird



mate - are you runnign XP on boot camp or a virtual machine? I was running Parallels (VM) on Tiger until halfway through a firmware upgrade on my phone, it crashed, and turned my phone into a brick. So I went and bought Leopard, put XP on via Boot Camp (which means you can utilise the video card properly), and was flying pretty nicely. But FMS just didn't cut it, so I dowloaded Clearview, tried my controller with it, liked it, and bought a licence - not bad, only $40. It's not exactly Realflight but it's still fairly good and a lot more realistic than FMS.

Plus, my boss just gave me Lo-mac's Lock-On, which is a flight simulator/fighting game. Fully good eh. unfortuantely that means I'll be spending more time on the computer than I should

k

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RE: The "Flight Sim for Mac" Protest! - 1/31/2008 3:15:09 AM   
bigbird007



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Status: offline 		jimbyjoe,

Bootcamp, although I don't like having to boot back and forth I wanted the full experience and not emulation. Not to mention the direct-x problems.

I would like to hear from someone who knows about the software for porting games to intel based Mac's though, I read somewhere that it was being worked on...

bigbird

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RE: The "Flight Sim for Mac" Protest! - 1/31/2008 4:12:31 PM   
da Rock



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Status: offline 		You know, this thread is 1 year and 4 months old. Pretty amazing.

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RE: The "Flight Sim for Mac" Protest! - 1/31/2008 4:25:38 PM   
nelsonmay


 

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Status: offline 		If you guys are really looking for something, like I am, try contacting a developer or gamer. There are a lot of kids out there that can write code or adapt code to the OS X platform. The Apple Market share is growing, but companies still don't want to take the leap in R&D on niche products until they know they can get a decent ROI. For the time being, we may not see a good FS for a MAC unless someone writes something that is compatible with the ESKY or any other controller, via USB. But be patient, it will come. BTW, older PC's in Goodwill stores are dirt cheap and an sure they have enough of horsepower to run a win program. My PC is 6 years old and runs the demo of Realflight. Even if you love macs like me, it still is better that pickup pieces on an airfield and coming home bummed out.

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RE: The "Flight Sim for Mac" Protest! - 2/1/2008 2:55:24 PM   
macuser


 

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Status: offline 		I've just upgraded to 2GB of RAM and added Leopard so all I need to run G4 is a Microsoft OS (and G4). I haven't used Bootcamp yet because I don't have a PC OS so I'll have to wait a bit longer. I'm kinda waiting until I get a new iMac because my current one has an integrated Intel G950 graphics chip and it won't likely run G4 very well. I'm also hesitant to mess up my computer with viruses when I update the windows OS.

I have to say I was envious of a previous poster who just bought a Mac Pro. Those things have some real power and can run several high end graphics cards at the same time. If I was going to get crazy like that I'd buy a dedicated PC for gaming.

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RE: The "Flight Sim for Mac" Protest! - 2/1/2008 3:05:01 PM   
bigbird007



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Status: offline 		The way I look at it, buy near the top of the line and it will be good for years to come. My last computer is over 5 now (pretty long in the tooth for a computer). I expect this one to last as long. Of course as soon as I bought it they updated it to 8 core as the standard config! It does run G3.5 pretty sweet.

Oh, for a Mac Version!

bigbird

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RE: The "Flight Sim for Mac" Protest! - 2/1/2008 5:23:25 PM   
bluesky123


 

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quote:

...thanks for the link to the Mac software and keep up the good work!

We've finished Mac port of our software:
http://www.milehighwings.com/
From now on, all future releases will be published simultaneously for Windows and MacOS.

Now, you can configure our USB interface or work with our new wattmeter/data logger completely on Mac, either PowerPC or Intel based. The only limitation is that MacOS should be version 10.4 or newer. We've considered making eFlightWorks compatible with 10.3, but Apple's USB communication code has too many bugs in this MacOS version, most of which was fixed in 10.4.

Boris
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RE: The "Flight Sim for Mac" Protest! - 2/1/2008 7:08:27 PM   
bigbird007



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Status: offline 		Thanks again for the effort Boris! Now if only the Sims were ported over

bigbird

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RE: The "Flight Sim for Mac" Protest! - 2/6/2008 12:38:09 AM   
GallopingGhost


 

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Status: offline 		OOO my Fruity Friends.....
The truth is Macs are only about 5% of the market and perhaps less in the RC world. Do you expect them to spend the development costs to provide a sim to 28.5 people? Ok I guessed at the number there may be 29 or 30. If they did that it would cost more than a blinged out Giant Scale plane. Now don't think I am a Apple hater, I'm not (but I do prefer oranges) but you must come to grips with the economics of it all. When Steve ( God) Jobs created your world he made your world differently from ours. You are welcome to join our world with all it has to offer.

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RE: The "Flight Sim for Mac" Protest! - 2/6/2008 2:07:22 AM   
bigbird007