Linux X-Plane Incoming
October 31st, 2004 by CrusaderA lot of people have been waiting years for this news: a beta version 8.0 of X-Plane for Linux will be available “soon”; X-Plane is widely regarded as one of the most advanced and versatile flight simulators available (a sister project, Space Combat, has been available for Linux for some time).
You can read more about X-Plane’s features here; moreover, a set of X-Plane utilities (Airfoil-Maker, Plane-Maker, and Weather-Briefer) are ready for downloading now. X-Plane 8.0 Utils Download: [ BitTorrent ]
October 31st, 2004 at 11:06 am
I would probably fill this post with expletives if I did.
I have been hoping and praying for this for years. You’ve certainly sold an extra copy here, Austin. May even get a new machine just for it.
October 31st, 2004 at 6:48 pm
Who / what caused Austin to change his mind?
October 31st, 2004 at 7:30 pm
!
October 31st, 2004 at 9:57 pm
I just get errors trying to extract the Linux download of Space Combat. Anyone else have that problem?
Space-Combat-140-lin3/Space Combat Resources/spaceships/Hornet.spa
Space-Combat-140-lin3/Space Combat Resources/spaceships/Agamemnon.spa
Space-Combat-140-lin3/Space Combat Resources/spaceships/Goliath.spa
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
November 1st, 2004 at 7:06 pm
Until its fully released :). Austin is not the one actually porting, but Joshua Wise, thanks Josh.
November 2nd, 2004 at 5:59 pm
This is great news!
Besides Flightgear, X-Plane will fit very nicely in my collection of Flight Simulators for Linux.