Games related to airplanes for children

On 27-Feb-2005, Top Spin wrote:

That's encouraging. He's not a prodigy, is he? ;-)

Nope.. No prodigy (except the ordinary)... But thx for asking... ;o)

So the game can be scaled down or customized to make it a little
easier to use for beginners?

As easy as to push the throttle forward, and pull the stick back...
And then just a little guidance to find out how to select the
favourite-airplane of the day, and start the flight...

By the way.. Does he have a joystick? With a "speed"-lever on (to be
preferred for easy control of speed)?
This would be a good thing to have, to get the most joy out of a flight
simulator...
If he has to steer with the keyboard, he will quickly put the simulator
aside...
So if he doesn't have a joystick, it could be a thing to get his Mom and Dad
into.. )


Regards
Mikael K

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Sorry.. no direct reply-email.. ;o)

Mikael,

Before we get too carried away, what are your computers specifications?
You'll need a modern processor, about 768 RAM and a good graphics card to
run FS2004....

Dallas

"Dallas"
Mikael,
Before we get too carried away, what are your computers specifications?

Err... that should have been directed to Top Spin...


Dallas

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:26:43 GMT, "Dallas"
wrote:

Mikael,

Before we get too carried away, what are your computers specifications?
You'll need a modern processor, about 768 RAM and a good graphics card to
run FS2004....

I think his computer is good. If not, his folks will get a new one. He
already has a lot of educational games and they play just fine.

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Email: Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com
(11/09/04)

"Top Spin"
I think his computer is good. If not, his folks will get a new one. He
already has a lot of educational games and they play just fine.

I can not think of a single "game" that requires more resources that FS2004.
I had to make a $700 upgrade to my computer to bring it up to FS2004s
standards.

My point is this, if his computer is 2 years old... you should find a copy
of FS2002 instead of FS2004.

Dallas

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:32:34 GMT, "Dallas"
wrote:


"Top Spin"
I think his computer is good. If not, his folks will get a new one. He
already has a lot of educational games and they play just fine.

I can not think of a single "game" that requires more resources that FS2004.
I had to make a $700 upgrade to my computer to bring it up to FS2004s
standards.

My point is this, if his computer is 2 years old... you should find a copy
of FS2002 instead of FS2004.

Are you saying that it won't run at all on a 2 year old PC or that it
will underperform in some way (slow, fuzzy graphics, etc.)?

Unless it won't load, I'm inclined to install it and see what happens.
If it needs more horsepower, they can deal with that.

Thanks

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Email: Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com
(11/09/04)

"Top Spin"
Are you saying that it won't run at all on a 2 year old PC or that it
will underperform in some way (slow, fuzzy graphics, etc.)?

For example: If the computer is a 2 year old Pentium 900 with an on board
64k graphics card... it will "run" but at a frame rate so slow that it will
effectively be "not running".

Most of us have 2.5+ Ghz processors and $300+ graphic accelerator cards.

Can you call and find out what the computer's specs are and post them here?

Dallas

(See the thread I started: Would this run FS9?)

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 05:55:58 GMT, "Dallas"
wrote:


"Top Spin"
Are you saying that it won't run at all on a 2 year old PC or that it
will underperform in some way (slow, fuzzy graphics, etc.)?

For example: If the computer is a 2 year old Pentium 900 with an on board
64k graphics card... it will "run" but at a frame rate so slow that it will
effectively be "not running".

Most of us have 2.5+ Ghz processors and $300+ graphic accelerator cards.

Can you call and find out what the computer's specs are and post them here?

I called, but my daughter doesn't know. Is there a utility I can get
that she can run on the PC to display the specs?

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Email: Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com
(11/09/04)

"Dallas" wrote:

[..]
My point is this, if his computer is 2 years old... you should find a copy
of FS2002 instead of FS2004.

There is a fs2002.exe in my fs2004 folder, i didn't execute this yet, but I
thought that fs2004 includes fs2002. I'm wrong?

Jan

"Jan Berg"
There is a fs2002.exe in my fs2004 folder, i didn't execute this yet, but
I
thought that fs2004 includes fs2002. I'm wrong?

Yep...

That fs2002.exe and fs2000.exe just start FS9. My guess is they are there
because some install programs search for them to install programs in the
right folder.

Dallas