It's hard to explain this nowadays, but there used to be computer flight simulators with... no graphics #retrocomputing
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 23:44:39 JST Thomas 🔭✨
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 23:47:15 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@dascandy42 basically
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Peter Bindels (dascandy42@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 23:47:16 JST Peter Bindels
@thomasfuchs Isn't that just a plane flying through a cloud at night over the ocean, doing an ILS approach?
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Peter Bindels (dascandy42@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 23:48:38 JST Peter Bindels
@thomasfuchs You could add a few 4090ti's to make it render a deeper black at a higher framerate... but does that really change anything?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 23:48:38 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@dascandy42 tbf it’s never completely dark, you’d see e.g. navigation lights reflecting on the cloud 😂
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Roger Lipscombe (rogerlipscombe@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 23:50:54 JST Roger Lipscombe
@thomasfuchs this triggered memories of ZX81 Flight Simulator:
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 23:54:35 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@Taco_lad yeah, watched that recently, great video
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Biggles (taco_lad@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 23:54:36 JST Biggles
@thomasfuchs reminds me of this video
https://youtu.be/lC4YLMLar5I?si=Ftx4gEaIzq8mxTvk -
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:33:04 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@grumpygamer I hope you had more than 3 minutes of fuel left
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Ron Gilbert (grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:33:06 JST Ron Gilbert
@thomasfuchs When I was flaying in IFR there were also no "graphics" as all I could see the the thick grey of clouds. I had to fly a real plane with just those instruments.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 01:15:20 JST Thomas 🔭✨
Looks like they updated it to add scenery, this is from a year later
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Jason Sando (jasonsando@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 01:38:17 JST Jason Sando
@thomasfuchs Wow! The scenery is so breathtaking I feel like I'm right there in Seattle. Er .. Salt Lake City? San Diego?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 02:00:26 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@jasonsando these american cities really all look the same
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