From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 23:06:59 MST
Austin is the occasionaly manic shareware author of the remarkable X-Plane series of flight sims
(modleing type) for Mac and Windows. Don't know if WINE or Lindows or such works with his code; it's
OpenGL-centric and loves CPU cycles and as much AGP graphics card as you can throw at it. His new (and,
for the moment, free) development seemed extroid (extropoid would be extropian-anthropoid, right?) enough
to post. LENSMAN 2k2! Haiii-YAH!
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From: austin meyer <austin@x-plane.com>
To: ANNOUNCE mailing list <xplane-news@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Fwd: [xplane-news] AYE-YAI-YAI TOO MUCH CAFFIENE!
Date: 2002-12-03 19:53:59
AYE-YAI-YAI TOO MUCH CAFFIENE!
SPACE COMBAT 1.05 IS HERE MAC AND WINDOWS!
NOW YOU HAVE A NEW "ADVENTURE" IN THE FILE MENU: RANDOM PLANET ORBIT.
SELECT THAT AND FOLLOW THE HOOPS INTO A STABLE ORBIT AROUND A PLANET OF
RANDOM SIZE.
ALL PHYSICS ARE ACCURATE, SO YOU CAN REALLY SET UP A REAL ORBIT WITH
HELP FROM THE HOOPS YOU FLY THOUGH! COOL!
ALSO THERE ARE NUMBERS IN THE LOWER-LEFT INDICATING YOUR SPEED WITH
RESPECT TO THE SPEED OF LIGHT, AND YOUR MASS WITH RESPECT TO THE REST
MASS, (remember, your mass increases as your speed increases, making it
harder to accelerate the faster you go... as you get close to the speed
of light, your mass goes to infinity!) WE HAVE ALL HEARD OF THE THEROY
OF RELATIVITY, NOW PUT IT TO THE TEST YOURSELF IN A
SPACESHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(of course, you have to get it out of demo mode to excpeed 100 m/s! ;-)
)
OH YES, YOUNGS MOD 645 IS HEREAS WELL WITH A FEW NEW RENDERING AND
RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENTS... AVAIL FOR MAC AND WINDOWS.
austin
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