Re: [GTALUG] Has the graphics-card world gone mad?

"Anthony de Boer via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

(At one point my son was looking at the price of some decent hardware for running flight sim, and found he could have quite a few hours wet rental of a Cessna 152 for that money; the latter won out. I'm of the same opinion; get up from the keyboard and experience real life rather than trying to simulate it on the computer.)

I deeply miss the ancient Flight Simulator with the polygon graphics. Third-party add-ons made it infinitely customizable, just about any way one wanted. When Microsoft took it over and made it photorealistic, all that got taken out of our hands. BUT, all I have to do is develop some decent OpenGL chops, and I could have it all back.