Orbiter - Space Flight Simulator
 

For anyone who is tired of the Arcade physics of Star Wars type games and wants real life physics. The only true game I can think of off the top of my head that used real theoretical technology and real physics was the Independence War series (Which I loved of course). Of course it was too difficult for the average player to deal with drifting to one side while strafing, etc, so it didn't do so well.

Anyway, here is the game incase you feel like having a go at it - warning steep learning curve!:

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http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html

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Some additional info can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiter_%28sim%29

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PS. I forgot to mention the price - It is Freeware!!!

Looks cool ill have to give it a whirl :)

It's a beautiful beautiful game with great physics and free as well. Unfortunately I just felt a bit too stupid to get to grips with it. Found it very difficult. One of these days I will get back into it again - there is nothing else out there remotely like it.

Looks cool. I'll try it out.

Some places to look for Orbiter tutorials:

http://www.eharm.net/shop/freeware/o...tutorials.html
http://solo.dc3.com/orbiter/
http://www.orbitermars.co.uk/oldindex.htm
http://www.orbiter.migman.com/orbiter.htm

Have they fixed the time compression - loss of control bug yet? I'll have to look into it again, Orbiters a great sim, easy to get the basics but very hard to master :D

Nope that one is definatly there

Figured i would bump this up again, and throw on some links.

http://www.orbithangar.com/
Best place to find mods and other stuff

http://orbiter.dansteph.com/index.php
Home of orbitersound (which is a must have) and delta glider III and IV

http://www.ibiblio.org/mscorbit/
Meadville Space Center (Check the sourceforge site link for downloads). Projects Mercury and Gemini, and Earth 1962 found here.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nassp/
Home of Project Apollo (NASSP)

http://www.orbithangar.com/searchaut...earch=david413
Shuttle Fleet Package

Thx for the links! I'll have to check these out. Been a while since I played this.

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:ping: Orbiter Atmospheric Visual Enhancement V3 (OAVE) for Orbiter 2006 :ping:
by Kevin M. Stoffel AKA "EndeavourCmdr"

http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=2379

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Would it be possible to play missions in this game that were created in an external program? I ask because I am looking for a game to link with my next project, and this looks interesting.

This sim is awesome. Been messing with it for 3 weeks now and have yet to dock to the ISS. I can launch, get into orbit, align planes, but trying to sync orbits has me messed up at the time being. This thing has a steep learning curve.

I would suggest this tutorial for learning how to dock with the ISS (and go to the moon, mars, etc). Its what i used to get started :)

http://www.orbiter.migman.com/orbiter.htm