On Monday 17 September 2001 10:23 pm, you wrote:
> For those interested and having access to a Windows or Macintosh machine:
> Austin Meyer just made the demo for the upcoming version 6.0 of X-plane
> available from:
>
> http://www.x-plane.com/
>
> Just a warning for those with slow connections: This is an 80 MB download
> (making our base package looking "small"). This demo works for 10 minutes
> and then goes into an automated mode. The full version will be available in
> November.
>
> Most will know but: X plane is a commercial Windows/Macintosh Flight
> simulator sharing several concepts with FlightGear (OpenGL based, terrain
> data,.. ). It's developed by essentially one guy: Austin Meyer.
>
> X plane always had excellent terrain and has been famous for its flight
> models, but was weak w.r.t scenery (mostly empty cities...). Now, Austin
> managed to implement kind of an Autogen feature (automated generation of
> buildings, trees..) like it was announced by MS earlier in an excellent
> way, and the result is IMHO a serious competitor for MSFS (and others).
> It's got excellent scenery now (up to trees, dynamic cars on streets...),
> full ATC, excellent readable gauges (much, much better than those from MS
> and IMHO better than ours, alone the artificial horizon is stunning),
I saw a preview of the gauges a little while back. It's just a more extreme
application of what Martin Dressler did with our AH. I'm curious, does Austin
do the artwork too? Hats off either way.
> beautiful clouds... I just did not yet manage to judge all stuff within the
> 10 min given. Definitely worth a try, and the demo is free.
>
> Regards, Michael
>
> (and, no, unfortunately Austin will not pay me for the announcement :-()
Thats okay, I doubt more that a handfull of people that subscribe will shell
out ^H^H^H^H^H^H fork over for it anyway.
>
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> Michael Basler, Jena, Germany
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