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goldorak · 01-29-07, 03:51 AM

This is all very exciting, but what timescale are we talking about ?
This reminds me a lot of orbiter, the only other professional grade freeware simulation, available on the net.
And it took 7 years of programming and refinement (one man coded the kernel of the simulation, physics, audio, graphics) plus tens and tens of third party developers, artists went ahead with add-ons ranging from realistic historical add-ons to purely sicence fiction add-ons.
And even now, orbiter has a lot of idiosyncrasies which make it only able to run in windows platform.

01-29-07, 03:51 AM	#11
goldorak Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,320 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	This is all very exciting, but what timescale are we talking about ? This reminds me a lot of orbiter, the only other professional grade freeware simulation, available on the net. And it took 7 years of programming and refinement (one man coded the kernel of the simulation, physics, audio, graphics) plus tens and tens of third party developers, artists went ahead with add-ons ranging from realistic historical add-ons to purely sicence fiction add-ons. And even now, orbiter has a lot of idiosyncrasies which make it only able to run in windows platform.