Any Decent Flight Sims For Pandora?

[Mr devil45]

are there any good flight sims that pandora can run?
are there any flight sims it can run anyway?

im just surprised that no-one has mentioned a flight sim yet.i want one,but dont know what will work.post now!

 

[Eversmile]

are there any good flight sims that pandora can run?
are there any flight sims it can run anyway?

im just surprised that no-one has mentioned a flight sim yet.i want one,but dont know what will work.post now!

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http://www.flightgear.org/
looks good. Try googling for "open source flight simulators" and such, that way you can ask a few more specific questions.

Remember, the device hasn't been released yet. Check this page for a nice list of open source games that could possibly be ported! CODE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_games

 

[fischju2000]

Flight simulators will destroy the Pandora's processing power, there should be some good and playable arcade flight games though.

 

[lulzfish]

The iStuff seems to do fine with X-Plane, although it's closed-source IIRC.

The problem I have is that flight simulators are extremely slow-paced and incredibly difficult unless you're the kind of person who can actually fly a plane.

Are there plans for any arcade flying games?
I suppose if there were any early Ace Combat games on PS1, those will work, but a native game would obviously be much cooler, and have better graphics, etc.

 

[Tempel]

The problem I have is that flight simulators are extremely slow-paced and incredibly difficult unless you're the kind of person who can actually fly a plane.
That's what flight sims are for; real flying! You've got to be a certain kind of person with a certain obsession about aerodynamics to enjoy it.

As for FlightGear, don't count on it being ported. It uses full OpenGL and, if I recall correctly, it has some pretty massive RAM and processing requirements. Well, more massive than the Pandora. Unfortunately, I don't expect any really real flight sims will be ported, but I still hold hope for some arcadey ones.

 

[gruso]

Flight simulators will destroy the Pandora's processing power, there should be some good and playable arcade flight games though.

That's a big call. I used to run MS Flight Sim on my IBM XT in 1991. There'll be something out there to suit Pandora.

 

[john4p]

You can play Falcon on the Amiga Emulator.

 

[conso]

flightgear has recently moved to openscenegraph. That should have lowered the demand for processing power dramatically plus someone is working on a openGL-ES backend for osg. I guess it's at least worth a try.

 

[Vorporeal]

There was a good arcade-ish flying game called GL-117 that I played years ago - not sure if it's open source or not.

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi,

To see the result of my search about flight sims on happypenguin.org just copy/paste these lines in your browser

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Bye, Magic Sam

 

[frefol]

The flight simulator I would like to see is something like RealFlight G4. It is an R/C Plane simulator so it is fast and pretty fun. Obviously that program wouldn't work but I found Flying-Model-Simulator which is free but not open source. It's for windows but the old versions are for DOS so maybe it would work. I didn't really spend much time looking.

 

[Joepostal]

http://www.heptargon.de/gl-117/gl-117.html

The source is available and fairly low requirements. More of a combat sim it seems. Didn't play it but only requires a tnt2.

 

[Chip]

Flight Gear or Palomino could be ported to the Pandora, but either would be a good bit of work. Not impossible, but both programs would require a fair amount of optimization to run well on the Pandora.

A more immediate solution would be any of the first three Ace Combat games for the PSX. They're not full-on flight sims, but closer to it than, for instance, Afterburner.

A list of other PSX flight sims: www.gamefaqs.com/console/psx/cat_68.html

 

[Sphinxter]

I'll be thrilled playing Afterburner.

 

[Gruntfuggly]

The best flight sim - Aviator...

 

[stustaff]

Flight sim that runs on Pandora...

FA/18 Interceptor on Amiga Emulator.

You can close this thread now its done

 

[hobbyman II]

either ACM (aerial combat simulator) or gl-117 ,acm is more what you want I think, but it crashes a fair bit, gl-117 is stable but arcadey. try em out (you do have a dual boot setup? yes?).


edit: both are available from Ubuntu repositories...

 

[j.pickens]

You are looking for an RC model airplane or helicopter flight simulator?

Here is one for linux, though I know nothing about making it work for Pandora:

http://crrcsim.berlios.de/wiki/
"http://crrcsim.berlios.de/wiki/"

 

[Kaze0110]

The iStuff seems to do fine with X-Plane, although it's closed-source IIRC.

The problem I have is that flight simulators are extremely slow-paced and incredibly difficult unless you're the kind of person who can actually fly a plane.

Are there plans for any arcade flying games?
I suppose if there were any early Ace Combat games on PS1, those will work, but a native game would obviously be much cooler, and have better graphics, etc.

I've loved flight sims ever since windows 95, and have enjoyed playing them ever since, and is/was one of my deciding factors for having the pandora in any case, is the potential to play one "on the go" with joystick support.

I'm not a pilot, and have been in personal aircraft only a handful of times, but, like all games, it's another challenge. Plus it satisfies that paranoia in the back of my head that says if I'm ever on a 747, and they need a pilot, I know exactly where the parachutes are kept when I jump out.

 

[gruso]

You are looking for an RC model airplane or helicopter flight simulator?

Here is one for linux, though I know nothing about making it work for Pandora:

http://crrcsim.berlios.de/wiki/
"http://crrcsim.berlios.de/wiki/"
On the topic of RC sims, check out what I just bought. Not for Pandora, but because I stumbled across it for $20.

It comes with a sim on cartridge (for Atari ST). An old review:

http://www.atarimagazines.com/startv3n9/rcaerochopper.html
www.atarimagazines.com/startv3n9/rcaerochopper.html

How cool is it! It's easily adapted for PC use apparently. I don't think I'll be carting it around with Pandora though.