I am a Mac person. does anybody make a flight sim for a mac.

any suggestions would be appreciated.

thanks,
micheal

Michael,
I don't think any company will port any commercial sim on Mac any time soon. Probably, there are multi-platform sim projects, which can be ported by yourself--something like Flightgear:
http://www.flightgear.org/

I work in a company which makes multi-platform software, and Mac has always been the biggest pain in the $%#...
The problem isn't in the Mac itself, but rather in the lack of solid development tools. Hopefully, this will change as MacOS X gets momentum (if it ever gets it).

Boris

I know that this is little help, but I wanted to give you some hope. In my travels through the web, I saw a few links to MAC sims. Wish I could give you more info than that. I use www.google.com as a search engine.

Hi Guy,

I have good news and bad news. Yes, there is a decent sim for Mac called FLY! You will need a high powered Mac to run it...tons of Ram, 64K graphics card and at least 900+ MHZ. I own a Mac which is now a dinosaur. I had a lot of fun playing F18 Korea, but, never could load any other sims onto it. Therefore, I got a new PC to take part in all of the rest of the flight sims out there. You really do need a PC to take part in the gaming industry I've learned. Hope this has helped.

Steve

If you mean RC sims, I haven't found any for the Mac. But...

There are several good "real" flight sims for the Mac though. "F-18 Korea" ( http://www.graphsim.com ), "Falcon 4" ( http://www.macsoft.com ), and "X-Plane" ( http://www.x-plane.com ) all run on a Mac.

PS> If you get "X-Plane", I have some free, downloadable planes for that sim that I designed, on my web site. (Version 5.66)

A virtual PC has become available in the past few years, it allows you to run any type of Windows software on your Mac. Look into them! (Don't change from Mac!)

I have thought about going with Virtual PC. but, I thought virtual PC was for older windows programs like win 95. I am too tight w/ my funds to spend 300 for virtual pc then another 250 for real flight G2 and still not work, because of software bugs, or my grafics card wasn't good enough.

I email real flight, they stated they have no plans to make it available for a MAC. I think they are missing out on a chance to make money. Me being a beginner Mac person, I have found that Its hard to find games for a Mac, and if you find them, you fight the Mac version at full price 39.99, where the PC version is 4.99-9.99. I think that sucks.

You won't find a Mac R/C sim. R/C sims aren't mass-market, so the odds of a developer recouping their investment in a Mac version aren't good. That's my opinion, anyway.

Virtual PC will not work for an R/C sim. There's 3 main reasons:

1. Emulating a PC is slow
2. The emulated video card is slow
3. Good luck getting a parallel/game port device working

Macs are absolutely awsome for most everything, just not R/C sims. I'm a PC technician by day, but use Macs primarily at home. A G4 tower and a G3 laptop. I'm not the type of person who wants to have to do PC repairs when I get home after doing them all day.

That said, when I started flying helis I wanted G2. So what'd I do? I bought a cheap PC and use it for G2.

Mac gaming isn't in all that bad of shape. Only the best PC games make it to the Mac. You don't have to pay full price, you just need to know where to shop. Check out dealmac.com for some ideas.

As for Fly!, it hardly requires a 900mhz Mac. It came out a couple years ago, and runs fine on a G3. Fly! 2, however, is a different beasty.

OS X is truly the future. It's all I run anymore. Unix with the ease of use a Mac, and Steve Jobs' digital hub software? Mmm... mana of the gods!

I found a site that has some simulators/games for Mac's.
I run OS X and am going to try a couple of these.

http://www.gamedb.com/ssps/0/0/00025

Go to the Links listed in forum and check out CRRCSIM it's developed in LINUX and therefore will run on Mac OS X. I haven't uded it yet but others have.
Also check out X-plane.com it is used in real world but you can download RC airplanes to fly with it. It is a very good sim

Hope that helps

rc aerochopper had a mac sim 7 or 8 years ago. Physics were decent, planes were line drawings....