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Microsoft Flight
Simulator 2004 A Century of Flight
Overview
Microsoft
Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight is the next milestone in the
award-winning Flight Simulator franchise. Celebrating 20 years of
developing and perfecting computer flight simulation, A Century of Flight
will allow aviation enthusiasts to experience history at the controls of
historic aircraft, such as Charles Lindbergh?s Ryan NYP Spirit of St.
Louis, the Douglas DC-3 and the world?s first successful powered aircraft,
the Wright Flyer.
New engaging features such as interactive
multimedia provide a wealth of historical information on the planes that
shaped aviation history and the pilots who flew them. Informed and
insightful articles explain all there is to know about Microsoft?s Flight
Simulator and the 24 aircraft included in the software.
Microsoft
Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight also introduces an updated,
dynamic weather system, enhanced automatically generated scenery (AutoGen)
and detailed visual effects, improved Air Traffic Control functions, and
3D interactive cockpits, as well as 15 modern aircraft, including the
Beechcraft Baron and the Robinson R22 helicopter.
System Requirements
Microsoft
Windows 98/Me/XP/2000
PC with 450 MHz equivalent or higher
processor
128 MB of system RAM for 2000/XP, 64 MB RAM for 98/Me
1.8
GB available hard disk space
4x speed or faster CD-ROM drive
8 MB
video card required
Sound card, speakers or headphones required for
audio
Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
56.6 Kbps or
better modem for online play
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Microsoft Flight Simulator X Delux
Edition
Product overview
Flight
Simulator X draws you deep into an experience of stunningly rich graphics
and an active environment
The game offers a world in motion, with
airport vehicles, traffic on highways, boats and ships on the lakes and
oceans, air traffic, livestock, and wild animals
Twenty new and
legacy aircraft, including an ultralight, single- and multi-engine props,
seaplanes, corporate jets, airliners, helicopters, and a
glider
Online game play: Talk to air traffic control or act as a
controller for other Flight Simulator pilots. Share control of your
aircraft across a network and across the globe. Chat in real time using a
headset
More than 50 challenging and fun missions for all players:
Mission-based game play puts you in the captain's seat with captivating
scenarios rich enough for repeated playing
You can rescue a downed
pilot, fly a humanitarian relief mission, land on a moving truck, fly up
the Amazon, and more
The culmination of
nearly 25 years of the Flight Simulator franchise
Free Flight lets
you fly anywhere in the world, from your hometown airport to exotic
destinations
This Deluxe Edition includes more airports, more
cities, and more missions than the Standard Edition
Twenty
aircraft, 45 high-detail airports, and 38 high-detail
cities
System
requirements
Operating
system
Windows 7, Vista, or XP SP2 (If your computer is
running Vista, we recommend that you install the Windows Vista Application
Compatibility Update, which addresses common issues that may impact the
performance of this game.)
Processor Required: 1.0
GHz
Memory Required: 512 MB (Windows 7 and Vista), 256 MB (Windows
XP SP2)
Hard disk: 14 GB
Video card: 32 MB DirectX 9
compatible
Additional requirements
Requires
32 GB of hard drive space for installation, 15 GB
thereafter.
Other
DirectX 9 hardware
compatibility and audio board with speakers and/or
headphones.
Online/Multiplayer requirements: 56.6 kbps or better
for online play.
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Graphsim X-Plane 9 (Separate versions for PC and
Mac)
X-Plane
9.0
Platform: Windows
XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, PC & Mac OS X
Universal
Developer: Laminar Research
Fly
Anything!
Ultimate Realism, Ultimate Versatility.
"For serious
and hard core Flight Sim buffs, you won't find a more detailed or
authentic learning tool." -Bruce Pechman, PC
GameWorld.com
"X-Plane is the
most versatile flight simulator I have played, giving its player an
endless variety of aircraft and situations in which to fly. Gamers looking
for a unique flying challenge not offered by bread-and-butter sims should
buy X-Plane for the experience alone." -IMG
NEW FOR X-PLANE 9
New
highly-detailed aircraft: Piaggio P180 Avanti II, Cessna 172, Cirrus' "The
Jet."
Support for new-gen
hardware including dual-core CPUs and the latest in video
cards.
Stunning new global
scenery and atmospherics, including reflective water and volumetric
fog.
FEATURES
X-Plane is the most
comprehensive and powerful flight simulator available for the personal
computer.
X-Plane simulates anything that flies: from single-engine
fixed wing props to multi-engine jets; gliders to dirigibles; helicopters
to spacecraft to VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B
Harrier.
X-Plane has the
most realistic flight model available for personal computers. It comes
with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, simulating aircraft from the
Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the
supersonic SR-71 and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie.
X-Plane comes with 29 aircraft spanning the aviation
industry (and history), and several hundred more are freely downloadable
from the internet.
X-Plane
includes scenery for the entire continental U.S.* You can land at any of
thousands of airports, as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers,
helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and
oil rigs. Weather is variable from clear skies and high visibility to
thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence, and
microbursts. Rain, snow and clouds are available for an instrument flying
challenge, and thermals are available for the gliders!
X-Plane can
download real weather data from the internet, allowing you to fly in
actual current conditions!
X-Plane also has detailed failure-modeling, with 35 systems that
can be failed manually, or randomly when you least expect it! You can fail
instruments, engines, flight controls, and landing gear at any
moment.
X-Plane includes
Plane-Maker which allows you to create your own airplanes, and World-Maker
which lets you create your own scenery. Also included is Weather Briefer
which produces a weather briefing based on actual weather conditions
downloaded from the net.
X-Plane
is extremely customizable, allowing you to easily create textures, sounds,
and instrument panels for your own airplanes that you
design.
SYSTEM
SPECS
DVD DRIVE ROM REQUIRED
Windows XP/Vista:
Processor: any @2GHz+
Mac OS
X v. 10.3:
Processor: G4/G5 or Intel 1GHz
System memory:
1GB
Available Hard Drive: 60 GB
Video Card: 64 MB
VRAM
Recommended: USB Joystick or yoke, Internet
Supported Video:
(256 MB VRAM
recommended)
ATI Radeon series (7000 or better): 7000/VE series, 7200,
7500, 8500, All-In-Wonder 8500, 9000, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800, X300,
X600, X800
Nvidia Quadro series: Quadro, Quadro2, Quadro4
Nvidia
Geforce series (GeForce2 and better): GeForce2, GeForce3, 3 Ti, GeForce4,
4Ti, MX 420, 440, GeForce FX 5200, 5600, 5700, 5800, 5900, 5950, GeForce
6600, 6800
Intel Extreme Graphics (non-T&L requires 2.0 GHz
processor): 82845, 82865, 82915
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