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It seems as if Microsoft is pulling the plug on MS Flight Simulator.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7902468.stm -- |
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John Godwin wrote: It seems as if Microsoft is pulling the plug on MS Flight Simulator. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7902468.stm Wow, it's a very good day to be Austin Meyer. (The guy who makes X-Plane.) The bit in the article where he talks about a simmer being asked to land a passenger plane after the pilots have been debilitated is pretty funny. Absolutely no mention whatsoever of the difficulty or improbability of actually pulling off such a feat. It is simply assumed that it could be done. -- Mike Ash Radio Free Earth Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon |
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"John Godwin" wrote in message ... It seems as if Microsoft is pulling the plug on MS Flight Simulator. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7902468.stm -- I think it's a liability issue. MSFS is so much like really flying, they have to consider the aging fleet. Sooner or later we are going to start seeing structural code failures in versions that have not been properly maintained. |
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John Godwin writes:
It seems as if Microsoft is pulling the plug on MS Flight Simulator. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7902468.stm Existing copies of MSFS will continue to run indefinitely. Software doesn't wear out. |
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Mike Ash writes:
The bit in the article where he talks about a simmer being asked to land a passenger plane after the pilots have been debilitated is pretty funny. Absolutely no mention whatsoever of the difficulty or improbability of actually pulling off such a feat. It is simply assumed that it could be done. It can easily be done. Large commercial transports are heavily automated, and most flights are conducted under computer control for most of their durations. With the automation in operation, no particular flying skill is required to keep the aircraft flying, and since the automation can also land the aircraft, no particularly flying skill is required for landing, either. Because of this, any person of reasonable intelligence who can follow instructions precisely can land an airliner, with help over the radio from a pilot. Many people imagine a non-pilot grabbing the yoke and wrestling the aircraft to the ground, Hollywood-style, and that type of scenario is indeed implausible and likely to end in failure. But it's a very unrealistic scenario, because in reality the automation would fly the plane, and the non-pilot would never have to touch the controls. As long as he can follow instructions, press buttons, and turn dials, he can land the airplane (or, more precisely, he can direct the computer to land the airplane). This has already been demonstrated on multiple occasions in full-motion sims. In fact, some people are able to land airliners by hand without any previous instruction, as long as they have an instructor to guide them. It's not rocket science. It's actually easier to land an airliner than it is to land a small aircraft, because small aircraft usually have only limited automation, just as small aircraft pilots usually have no clue about how large airliners work, and tend to assume that everything flies like their Cessnas. |
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Mxsmanic wrote:
John Godwin writes: It seems as if Microsoft is pulling the plug on MS Flight Simulator. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7902468.stm Existing copies of MSFS will continue to run indefinitely. Software doesn't wear out. Yep, all the software for DOS and an EGA display, not to mention the Apple II stuff is still running, assuming you can find hardware that still runs outside a museum. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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Mxsmanic wrote: Mike Ash writes: The bit in the article where he talks about a simmer being asked to land a passenger plane after the pilots have been debilitated is pretty funny. Absolutely no mention whatsoever of the difficulty or improbability of actually pulling off such a feat. It is simply assumed that it could be done. It can easily be done. When it's tested, either with an actual in-flight crisis or by having somebody set it up as an experiment, then I will believe it. Until then, please do not act as though the unknown is certain. And no, I don't mean testing it in a simulator. -- Mike Ash Radio Free Earth Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon |
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The local AATD I use for IFR currency is run by XPlane
not MSFS B "John Godwin" wrote in message ... It seems as if Microsoft is pulling the plug on MS Flight Simulator. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7902468.stm -- |
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Hash: SHA1 wrote: Yep, all the software for DOS and an EGA display, not to mention the Apple II stuff is still running, assuming you can find hardware that still runs outside a museum. Umm.. not for nothing, but I still have my Apple IIe, and runs great, especially if I want to play a good game of Karateka or Zaxxon! BL. - -- Brad Littlejohn | Email: Unix Systems Administrator, | Web + NewsMaster, BOFH.. Smeghead! | http://www.wizard.com/~tyketto PGP: 1024D/E319F0BF 6980 AAD6 7329 E9E6 D569 F620 C819 199A E319 F0BF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJojxfyBkZmuMZ8L8RAsL7AJ966ChwB12WHhjdk7ztCm D2DymDogCeMBaU 7x49J1KHqprm+Gp8MkI5xEo= =mZ81 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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"Wolfgang Schwanke" wrote in message
... Umm, I don't know about Apples, but Intel machines ought to be fully backward compatible. All Intel compatible CPUs including the latest 64 Bit DualCore and its clones can emulate 8086/8088, and all modern graphics boards can emulate ancient graphics modes such as EGA, Hercules or plain text mode. So you can run old versions of DOS and ancient softwares. I doubt an old DOS version will recognise a USB joystick, and I don't think you'll find a game port that will plug into your 64 Bit DualCore motherboard. At work I've been fighting with some old software running on 386/486 hardware. I don't know why, but the text software havs an eight second delay between screens. There's a hardware security device on the parallel port that I suspect is part of the problem. I've tried every bios setting I could find, but it won't go away. Also, I don't theing the video boards do hercules. I recall needing some kind of software emulator to do that at one time. Unless I'm thinking of the CGA emulator that ran on a Hercules adapter. |
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