Daerandin
Well-Known Member
This is a free Space Flight Simulator, which is highly realistic. That means you need to understand orbital mechanics to actually play this. You can't just point towards Mars, engage engines and expect to get there. I used to play this a lot some years back and decided to give it a go now through wine.
You can find it here: Orbiter
The project is still active, despite infrequent updates. The current version is over 3 year old, but still works great. I have set up a virtual drive with wine 1.7.6, and installed dxfullsetup and vcrun2005. I use the dx9 graphical client which is developed by independent people. Primarily because the OpenGL client is not as stable yet, and most addons for orbiter seem to prefer the dx9 graphical client.
I have also installed Orbiter Sound, and the Delta Glider IV ship found here: DanSteph downloads
Things seem to work very well and I might be doing this for next weeks guide with a detailed explanation that will include the Orbiter Sound package, dx9 client, and the Delta Glider IV ship.
There are tons of addons for this for those who want to either recreate historical space flight, or those looking for more of a sci-fi feel. I prefer the near-future feel of the Delta Glider type ships.
I only have one problem, my favorite addon ships are downloaded as a .zip archive, and when I unpack it using 7zip, it does not retain directory structure, because the archive is saved with backslashes instead of forward slashes. So instead of unpacking a file that goes into ./Textures2/XR2/etc.. I get a file named: Textures2\XR2\etc...
If someone knows any archive extractor that is better at dealing with windows paths in archives that would be great. I suppose I could install 7zip in the virtual drive and try doing it there. The only other thing I could think of would be to either A: manually edit the file names and place them in the correct place, or B: write a script to do it for me, actually I don't think it would be too hard to write a Python script to handle it so I might look into that, and possibly include that in the guide if I get it working as I want.
You can find it here: Orbiter
The project is still active, despite infrequent updates. The current version is over 3 year old, but still works great. I have set up a virtual drive with wine 1.7.6, and installed dxfullsetup and vcrun2005. I use the dx9 graphical client which is developed by independent people. Primarily because the OpenGL client is not as stable yet, and most addons for orbiter seem to prefer the dx9 graphical client.
I have also installed Orbiter Sound, and the Delta Glider IV ship found here: DanSteph downloads
Things seem to work very well and I might be doing this for next weeks guide with a detailed explanation that will include the Orbiter Sound package, dx9 client, and the Delta Glider IV ship.
There are tons of addons for this for those who want to either recreate historical space flight, or those looking for more of a sci-fi feel. I prefer the near-future feel of the Delta Glider type ships.
I only have one problem, my favorite addon ships are downloaded as a .zip archive, and when I unpack it using 7zip, it does not retain directory structure, because the archive is saved with backslashes instead of forward slashes. So instead of unpacking a file that goes into ./Textures2/XR2/etc.. I get a file named: Textures2\XR2\etc...
If someone knows any archive extractor that is better at dealing with windows paths in archives that would be great. I suppose I could install 7zip in the virtual drive and try doing it there. The only other thing I could think of would be to either A: manually edit the file names and place them in the correct place, or B: write a script to do it for me, actually I don't think it would be too hard to write a Python script to handle it so I might look into that, and possibly include that in the guide if I get it working as I want.
