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Condor Soaring Sim Now Avaliable
Hi All,
Just to let you know that Condor is now avaliable from www.condorsoaring.com. Having played it for a good few hours it seems pretty damn good (and no, I'm not on commision or in any way related to the development team ;-) ). The scenery is lovely, the planes feel right (having never flown a Nimbus 4 or an ASW 28 I can't comment on how precise they are but they feel right), and the thermal and lift models seem very detailed. All this set in beautiful Slovenia ;-) As an aside, this is the only soaring sim I've seen that I would consider recommending to a non glider simulator enthusiast, as the whole product is very polished and the addition of a comprehensive 'flight school' set of training scenarios that can be either watched or flown make the learning curve a lot easier. As for requirements, it runs perfectly well on my 1.6ghz Centrino laptop with a pretty puny graphics card and 512mb ram :-D Check it out www.condorsoaring.com Cheers Jamie Now back to work... :-( |
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Hi Jamie, thanks for the heads-up on Condor's release.
That said, unlike SFSPC, SotS or (and perhaps more to the point) the recently released Silent Wings, they don't provide a demo to download and try, and have stated they've no intention of doing so. Which is a pity. My machine is something of an old lady in terms of performance these days (on a par with yours, it would seem, though with more ram and better graphics). And whilst you are clearly delighted with the performance of their sim on your rig, I'm not going to take the chance that my expectations of performance match yours. Especially not when I can download the competition (Silent Wings) and try them out for myself for a couple of weeks before parting with hard cash. A shame, because a multiplayer gliding sim based in the Alps actually appeals to me more than a gliding sim based over Minden (nothing wrong with Minden, but the Alps are closer to home!). But in that the latter offer a demo so that I know exactly what I'm getting for my cash and the former doesn't and doesn't intend to any time in the near future, I suspect I've already decided where my cash is going -Bill John Doe writes Hi All, Just to let you know that Condor is now avaliable from www.condorsoaring.com. Having played it for a good few hours it seems pretty damn good (and no, I'm not on commision or in any way related to the development team ;-) ). The scenery is lovely, the planes feel right (having never flown a Nimbus 4 or an ASW 28 I can't comment on how precise they are but they feel right), and the thermal and lift models seem very detailed. All this set in beautiful Slovenia ;-) As an aside, this is the only soaring sim I've seen that I would consider recommending to a non glider simulator enthusiast, as the whole product is very polished and the addition of a comprehensive 'flight school' set of training scenarios that can be either watched or flown make the learning curve a lot easier. As for requirements, it runs perfectly well on my 1.6ghz Centrino laptop with a pretty puny graphics card and 512mb ram :-D Check it out www.condorsoaring.com Cheers Jamie -- Bill Gribble http://www.scapegoatsanon.demon.co.uk - Learn from the mistakes of others. - You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself. |
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Hi,
Just to let you know that Condor is now avaliable from www.condorsoaring.com. It looks good in the screenshots and videos. But I also agree with the opinion that the unavailability of a demo version is a bad decision. The argument that building two versions would make the product more expensive does not hold in my opinion. The additional work to support a crippled-in-some-way version is minimal (on the order of an hour or two) and only needs to be invested once. While the product is not expensive I will definitely not buy it without trying it first. I have homebuilt rudder pedals and will only buy software that is flexible enough to be able to use them. There is no way I can find that out from a features list. Ciao, MM -- Marian Aldenhövel, Rosenhain 23, 53123 Bonn. +49 228 624013. http://www.marian-aldenhoevel.de "What did you expect to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the prairie!" Basil Fawlty |
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