john
2017-10-12 21:15:22 UTC
I'm home after two days in airplanes - phooey on aviating.
I found the CDROM, loaded it up in my SPARCstation 10 with GX Frame
buffer and it ran.B the README gives addresses to buy passwords.B I
can't remember if we ever had one.B We had a customer who wanted to
develop a helicopter simulator (what he wanted would have been called a
trainer in the simulation industry - no physical movement but what you
would on the screen might accurate show what you'd see out the front if
you depending on the physics of the machine simulated and what you'd
done with the controls.B This never came to anything when customer began
to grasp what it was going to cost to do this even getting a good deal on.
in any case you get a heads-up display and a number of terrain files and
physics for 4 planes, including a 727 and an F18.B I can vaguely
remember that we had it set up at one time so that we could have
dogfights over the network, so we must have had passwords.
I suppose I could make some ISO CD copies of what I have.B the
installation is pretty simple.B You mount -r /dev/sr0 /mnt then go to
/mnt/etc and run the install program.B I have no idea whether I can make
a CD which my Sun can read. I have a matsushita (Panasonic) drive in the
stack next to my machine. along with the two tape drives. It is probably
20 years old and I doubt if it can read a current -R CD.
Anyone want to pursue this?
john ferguson
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I found the CDROM, loaded it up in my SPARCstation 10 with GX Frame
buffer and it ran.B the README gives addresses to buy passwords.B I
can't remember if we ever had one.B We had a customer who wanted to
develop a helicopter simulator (what he wanted would have been called a
trainer in the simulation industry - no physical movement but what you
would on the screen might accurate show what you'd see out the front if
you depending on the physics of the machine simulated and what you'd
done with the controls.B This never came to anything when customer began
to grasp what it was going to cost to do this even getting a good deal on.
in any case you get a heads-up display and a number of terrain files and
physics for 4 planes, including a 727 and an F18.B I can vaguely
remember that we had it set up at one time so that we could have
dogfights over the network, so we must have had passwords.
I suppose I could make some ISO CD copies of what I have.B the
installation is pretty simple.B You mount -r /dev/sr0 /mnt then go to
/mnt/etc and run the install program.B I have no idea whether I can make
a CD which my Sun can read. I have a matsushita (Panasonic) drive in the
stack next to my machine. along with the two tape drives. It is probably
20 years old and I doubt if it can read a current -R CD.
Anyone want to pursue this?
john ferguson
_______________________________________________
rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue