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- From: root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer)
- Subject: Re: ACM Flight Sim
- References: <1993Jan18.020238.10402@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <93018.204743BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET> <C12M0o.FGG@ecf.toronto.edu> <1993Jan19.012211.20034@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Organization: Linux Box standing around in Hamburg, Germany
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 19:10:53 GMT
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- jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
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- >Its available in both source and binaries on sunsite.unc.edu in
- >/pub/Linux/X11/games. But I hope you have a 486/66 and a S3 video card,
- >because it is awfully slow on my 486-33 lb et4000.
-
- It will be awfully fast on it when you switch over to X386mono. Only
- disadvantage is that the screensize is too small to see it all. You can of
- course do some fiddling with the 512k-Pixels you have (I sometimes use
- 1024x512 rather than 800x600), but it won't fit.
-
- Me, I crash nicely into everything with it, though :-)
-
- Bernie
-
- P.S.: This is a cure for xtank and xpilot as well!
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