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Computer Flight Simulators > Any sims for mac computers?

AH-1 pilot
Key Veteran
Location: Tampa, Florida

I have a Mac G4 and a 21" apple flat screen...If no sims are available for macs, wonder if I could plug my apple flat screen into a regular windows laptop.

Michael

03-10-2006 Over year old.

z11355
rrMaster
Location: 10000 is enough time wasted.

* do a search *

no, no real sims for the mac.

you should be able to plug the screen into the video out of
the laptop.

03-10-2006 Over year old.

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Handel
Heliman
Location: Los Angeles, CA

X-Plane is the best flight sim for the mac, although not as good as Reflex or G3,

x-plane.com/

03-20-2006 Over year old.

weberguru
Heliman
Location: san jose, ca, usa

mac heli sims

I just downloaded an rc heli sim for macs only out of europe. It's not fancy and you can test it before you register, only costs thirty euros. If you have a usb cord for your tx, any real tx, you can use it. The web address is www.alphamacsoftware.com I would appreciate any feedback and/or comparisons with the the major pc sims as my laptop is to lame to play any of them so I have no point of reference.

04-05-2006 Over year old.

MHawker
Heliman
Location: San Diego, CA

Mac just released Boot Camp which will allow those with Intel based Macs to run Windows XP.

I don't know if this will allow the installation of a flight sim on the Mac, but it seems possible or at least closer to possible.

04-05-2006 Over year old.

z11355
rrMaster
Location: 10000 is enough time wasted.

Boot Camp is only workable on the latest Intel based Mac's, not
the G4 or G5 series.

04-05-2006 Over year old.

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MHawker
Heliman
Location: San Diego, CA

Quote
Boot Camp is only workable on the latest Intel based Mac's, not the G4 or G5 series.

I thought that's what I said...

04-06-2006 Over year old.

Handel
Heliman
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Walt Mossberg writes in today’s Wall Street Journal that he ran Microsoft Flight Simulator (as well as 14 other Windows programs) on an Intel Mac booting in Windows (with Boot Camp) and it worked perfectly.
Who’s going to try Reflex first?

04-06-2006 Over year old.

TheHud
Heliman
Location: Champaign Urbana,Illinois - USA

G3 works, check it out:

http://12.156.2.54/forums/showthread.php?t=12388

04-06-2006 Over year old.

MicroDOC
Veteran
Location: Goleta, CA

As of yesterday I have been running Reflex XTR on my MacBook.

Running windows under Bootcamp is the answer for you Mac users. I find that it runs faster and with better graphics than on my Windows machine. Looks like there is finally a reasonable alternative for us. The only drawback is that it requires a Intel CoreDuo machine.

Better yet, check out it out running on a 50" Plazma display in real time.

Ron…

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it!

04-06-2006 Over year old.

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Handel
Heliman
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Thanks for the info Ron. Has anyone tried it with an Intel Mac Core Solo machine? Ie, the 1.42 Ghz Mac Mini. It also has an integrated video card (slower)so that could be a problem.

04-06-2006 Over year old.

MicroDOC
Veteran
Location: Goleta, CA

Should work OK, only without the hot graphics. I'm sure someone will post an answer for you real soon.
Ron…

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it!

04-06-2006 Over year old.

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geccy
Heliman
Location: Trondheim, Norway

Reflex on Mac Mini

I´m running Windowx XP pro under Bootcamp on my MacMini 1,83 GHz with Intel CoreDuo prosessor. I reasently installed Reflex XTR, but when i try to start it i only get this massage, "no direct-3D-driver was found". Reflex works on a MacBook witch uses the same Intel GMA 950 graphics prosessor as the MacMini. Since the Reflex is working on a MacBook i would asume it would work on my MacMini too. Any ideas how i can solve this problem?

03-19-2007 Over year old.

nheather
Veteran
Location: Horsham, West Sussex, UK

Don't know about Macs in particular but since in this case it is being used the same as a PC I guess this holds true.

When you install Windows XP on any machine it usually (if not always) installs a generic graphics driver. This works well enough to run windows but is not suitable to run DirectX based programs.

The message you are getting suggests this is the case.

What you need to do is to identify the graphics card and install the windows driver for that card.

Cheers,

Nigel

Just did a bit of research. Your graphics driver is one of these

Intel GMA 950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory

Details of the graphics card can be found here

http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/

You can download the driver from here

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-020683.htm

Although it looks like there are three different graphics drivers (depending on card) it looks like they are all downloading the same file - so any should do if you are not sure.

Don't expect sparkling performance. Memory is marginal. Being shared with main memory is bad. The processor itself probably isn't powerful.

03-19-2007 Over year old.

STANG KILLA SS
Senior Heliman
Location: KILLEEN TX

i still dont understand why the even bother selling macs........
no software, underpowered.
i guess they sell them do girls cause they got all the pretty colors and shapes

03-19-2007 Over year old.

Sanlley40
Senior Heliman
Location: Miami, Fl

Mac's way more power than the most powerfull pc ever,
and mac's has all major programs, and they give you the bootcamp, a solution for running pc programs while they create them for mac

Sanlley40

09-05-2007 02:09 PM

Sanlley40
Senior Heliman
Location: Miami, Fl

weberguru:

Will the Tx from real flight g2 work with www.alphamacsoftware.com simulator?

Sanlley40

09-05-2007 02:16 PM

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