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- From: stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender)
- Subject: Re: Wanted: a flight simulator for my hp48sx
- In-Reply-To: frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU's message of Sun, 30 Aug 1992 18:29:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <STEVEV.92Aug31112659@miser.uoregon.edu>
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- Organization: University of Oregon Chemistry Stores
- References: <1992Aug30.182928.15319@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 11:26:59
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- In article <1992Aug30.182928.15319@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes:
-
- I've been meaning to post this for some time but I keep forgetting it's
- simply something that's been on my wish list for a long time.
-
- If anyone out there wants a fun challenge and to impress people just
- whip up a flight simulator for the hp48. It's certainly capable of
- the task as I remember playing with my first flight simulator on an
- Apple II+ with 32 or 64K of RAM and it only ran at 1 Mhz. A flight
- simulator would be something I'd be willing to fork a few of my hard earned
- buck for. Anyone want to take the challenge?
-
- ian
-
- We'd need a good graphics library with polygon fill capability to
- do this.
-
- I have also considered writing a flight simulator, mostly because
- I made a (highly informal) bet with a friend that it could be
- done. In fact, I think an HP 48 flight simulator could have a
- better frame rate than one for the Apple II--the screen has fewer
- pixels and the processor is better at arithmetic.
- --
- Steve VanDevender stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu
- "Bipedalism--an unrecognized disease affecting over 99% of the population.
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