Flight Simulator 2002 With 13 Monitors And 9 PCs

Ant points to Steve Ferris' site demonstrating what Ferris has done "using Wideview software, Multi Monitors and Fs2002 Panel Interior view Bitmaps. 9 PC's & 13 monitors. Server PC is a 2.0ghz AMD and has 1 Asus 4800se G4 AGP and when Motor flying 4 PCI graphic cards for the instrument panels.. All 8 Clients have AGP cards and are AMD 800 to 1.5ghz... My Ask21 Glider with 3 Asus 4800se G4 cards on the front 6 monitors, giving great downward landing view. When you sit in front, all screens line up reasonably well ... Windows XP on the 3 front PC's and 98se on the rest."

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That'll do wonders for pr0n

[kaltkalt]

seriously...wow.

Flight simulator har har

[rkz]

Flight simulator my arse, hes only saying that because of his wife!!! the real reason is his DVD porn collection!

Go for realism?

[secolactico]

Nice, nice. But, isn't that seatbelt on the chair taking things a bit too far?

Re:Go for realism?

[mog]

I fail to see how being strapped down below 13 falling monitors adds to your safety.

So...

[Spoticus]

when the win98 machines BSOD in succession, do the wings fall off?

Re:Uh

[sahonen]

My father's a pilot, I've seen him go plane shopping. For a 30 year old 4-seater it usually costs a bit more than a new luxury car, so they'd have to all be HD plasma displays before they'd even approach the cost of a new plane. Oh, and before you ask... A 30 year old plane is quite flyable. Heck, we have military planes that are over 50 years old and still flying into enemy air. Pilots pay much more attention to aircraft maintenance than most drivers, 'cause when your engine goes out at 7,500 feet, it's a little bit more serious than when it goes out at 0.

Re:yikes...

[welthqa]

No. Having a computer to simulate any aircraft. as well as the awesome bragging rights is and will continue to be better than anything you can ever put up, save 14+ monitors. This man is godlike and should be treated as such. Can you even imagine how much better he is than us? millions of times better. godlike, man. GODLIKE.

Licensing ...

[BillsPetMonkey]

Windows XP on the 3 front pc's and 98se on the rest

That's a total of 13 licenses needed. Are you inviting the BSA into your home or is 13 your lucky number?

Re:yikes...

[seanadams.com]

Rough guess

CRTs: 10 x $250 = 2500
TFTs: 3 x $650 = 1950
Vid cards: 13 x $250 = 3250
PCs: 9 x $500 = 4500

So about $15K altogether, give or take a couple K.

Re:But...

[Graff]

You can seriously crash a RL airplane once, with a lot of luck twice. And with this one you can crash over and over!

Especially since most of those computers are running Windows 98...

So? X-Plane does this natively

[dustoffx]

X-plane does this sort of thing natively using TCP/IP,
costs less, and has a more accurate flight model.

Other info at theX-plane UDP networking information site.
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Re:Uh

[The Clockwork Troll]

Why don't you take some real flying lessons, and maybe buy a plane?

Totally agree with your careful conclusion.

For the same reason, although we think Halo would be fun as fuck running on 16+ monitor screens, my friends and I have opted instead to take real sniping lessons, and buy a warthog.