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In today part series on the history sizzler salad bar of computing and games will be described sizzler salad bar more classically conceived flight simulator called Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, and then we discuss how the filmmakers sought to improve simulators display surface of the gaming world. Groundbreaking work in this area is a game Rescue on Fractalus! from 1985.
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In the previous part series on the history of computing sizzler salad bar and the history of the development of computer games, we have to describe sizzler salad bar flight simulators were given until 1991, around the time when the personal computer PC began to more fully equip VGA cards, which gradually replaced the older and In many respects, the unsatisfactory CGA graphics sizzler salad bar card (which was a product that IBM laughed the whole sensible world), EGA and Hercules. All past games described, ie, F-19 Stealth Fighter, LHX Attack Chopper and F29 Retaliator sizzler salad bar arose at a time when it was necessary to reckon sizzler salad bar with the fact that players have computers with older graphics cards, because here we find yet full use of all the opportunities that programmers sizzler salad bar offers VGA, particularly its standard graphics mode with 256 colors and fashions that are derived from this mode (Mode-X,-Y Mode, etc.).
Today we first describe a game called Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. This game is from 1991 and is one of the first widespread use of flight simulators in which programmers take advantage of the aforementioned options VGA card. Finally, we discuss the issue of representation of the game world because of all hitherto sizzler salad bar described flight simulators show the gaming world as a pancake on a hill which represent different pyramids, sizzler salad bar whether displayed sizzler salad bar by using wireframe or filled polygons. In addition to this type of display, however, there are alternative ways that such use voxels sizzler salad bar (which sizzler salad bar in this context is not entirely accurate designation) or height maps. One of the first games of this type game Rescue on Fractalus! from 1985, on personal computers, it is primarily a game Comanche: Maximum Overkill, which is somewhat simplified sizzler salad bar terms, sizzler salad bar the combination of flight simulator shooter.
The first game, you now describe the game carrying a rather long name Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. This game is from 1991, and for the development of increasingly programmer Brent Iverson. With this developer we have already met in the previous part of this series, because the programmer was also behind the development of flight simulator LHX Attack Chopper. However, while in the case of games LHX Attack Chopper players could fulfill the mission of the selected type or helicopter. special aircraft V-22 Osprey (which also starts vertically sizzler salad bar like a helicopter) can be a game Chuck Yeager's sizzler salad bar Air Combat choose from quite a large number of different aircraft with a standard way off, whether it is a propeller-driven fighters and bombers from World War II as well as machines with engines used for example in the Korean War. Interesting thing is that the choice of aircraft is not limited to machines used and / or manufactured in the USA, but you can also choose some types of MiGs to the rudder sizzler salad bar drawn the necessary red star (indeed, MIG-15 is one of the most interesting aircraft in the game ).
As we have said in the introductory chapter, the game Chuck Yeager's sizzler salad bar Air Combat (abbreviated CYAC - this acronym, this game marked on discussion boards) sizzler salad bar supported VGA card, specifically its graphic mode 0 13 (this number is derived from the call Services 10 BIOS settings sizzler salad bar for graphics mode) with a resolution of 320 200 pixels and the possibility of simultaneous display of 256 colors. By using this graphics mode to display the dashboard much more detail than when only sixteen colors - Other single dashboard differ from each other depending on which aircraft the player chose. Greater number sizzler salad bar of colors can be seen on the display frame that is not easily understood as a mere edge between blue and green, but already, there is the gradient transition from blue to white, which closely mirrors the reality (the gradient transition is possible on slower computers off to achieve a large number of frames displayed per second). sizzler salad bar
Certain aspects of the game world view in the game Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, we have