YES! I have FlightGear Installed !!

shazam75 · 10-29-2005, 12:35 AM

WOW another step further away from M$ - with FlightGear (Civil Aircraft sim) installed and running on my Linux box - I am putting together a small instruction set if anyone is interested.

Regards,
Shelton.

slackhack · 10-29-2005, 12:46 AM

i had it installed on my laptop but i couldn't figure out how to fly without crashing.

if by instruction set you mean how to use it, i'd go for that.

shazam75 · 10-29-2005, 12:55 AM

well what crash do you get - so you have a 3D acceleration card installed?

slackhack · 10-29-2005, 01:07 AM

just a mobile radeon 7500.

i guess i crashed into the weeds or whatever was on the side. one time i think i flipped upside down.

i actually just installed it out of curiousity, but sometimes i've thought it would be cool to learn how to fly it.

shazam75 · 10-29-2005, 05:54 AM

Do you have a joystick? You really need one - otherwise hit the number 9 on your keypad with num lock off to accelerate.

Its too hard to fly on a keyboard

Regards

Shelton.

slackhack · 10-29-2005, 09:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by shazam75
Do you have a joystick? You really need one - otherwise hit the number 9 on your keypad with num lock off to accelerate.

Its too hard to fly on a keyboard

Regards

Shelton.

yeah, especially a laptop. i think that is a good part of the problem.

maybe i'll find a cheap usb joystick somewhere and give it another go. thanks.

Rojon · 10-29-2005, 10:25 AM

I bought Microsoft Flight Sim once along with a Microsoft joystick. I played the game for a whole day and it was as buggy as hell. Ended up taking it back and getting a refund, not sure i should have though, not really the guys fault the software was buggy. I kept the joystick just in case and hope to install Flightgear when i get my desktop back up and running. A joystick does give you a better experience when playing flight sims. Getting the foot pedals would probably make it even better.

Cheers