On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:59:43 +0930, George wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 18:54 +1300, Dene Maxwell wrote: > > wow...lotsa suggestions > > > > Running FG 0.9.8 > > > > unfortunately running it on my partners PC and she gets all "anti" > > when I download anything new (blames my downloads for win98me's > > flakey performance). > > > > I am anticipating some money soon and intend getting a Dell > > Dimension 9100, Intel Pentium 4 Processor 630 with HT technology > > (3Ghz), 128Mbyte ATI radeon x300SE hypermemory graphics, 250Gbyte > > HDD, 1024MB SDRAM, XP Home edition. ..kick out Wintendo, spend the money on an extra Gig or three of ram. > > This might leave me enough to get a yoke/pedal set from the 'States > > at approx $US500 ( $NZ700). I would like to try dual boot with Linux > > on this set up. > > > > Just to give something back in the way of a good laugh.... what are > > my chances of running FG 0.9.8 on a P1 166Mhz with a S3 Trio64V+ PCI > > (765) (1Mbyte) with 100MB DRAM? ..100MB? 96+4??? Use that box as a firewall: http://ipcop.org/ ..or, if you go for Debian Sarge Linux, use your old box as a scenery _etc_ server. > The S3 isn't OpenGL compliant (AFAIK) to begin with. :-) > > > When y'all stop laughing I do expect comments along the lines of " a > > snowball has better chances in HELL!!!" > > Hmmm, I don't think that anyone a has modelled snowballs for > flightgear. Also where can we get a METAR for hell from? :-D > > Sorry to be flippant but I couldn't resist. ..uhuh. Don't _ever_ ask for snow balls etc unless you really really want them, because somebody might actually act on doing them. ;o) > You might want to consider compiling fg_server and see how it runs on > that machine though. > > George Patterson > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
