http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/ Engadget Comments for Australian continues to hone $300,000 flight simulator http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/
Does anyone know if there is a way I can reprogram it to accept another Arcade sim game with better graphics?

If only I could play Falcon 4.0 or JANES USAF...my life would be complete.]]>Mar 13th 2009 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/
I wish they made a space based game for it. Something like Star Wars would be perfect.

If I had to get another game in there, I would hook up the computer inside the ball. You will only need power then, and the directional motor controllers should still be controlled by the joystick. Hooking that up to the new computer might be the difficult part, but there should be a similar joystick. The worst case is that you need to modify the internals of a second joystick to mate up to the existing one. The emergency stop button might not work either, or it would be tough to get it working the way it did. You could have it kill the power to the motors, but it might stop upside down.

You would then need to get a few LCD screens and secure them in to the place where the CRT used to be. Some small surround sound speakers and one of those Buttkicker gamer devices would work out well.

And to the OP, and Engadget, is that $300k Australian dollars? Even though it cost more then my house, and the graphics are still not quite where I would expect them to be with Google Earth and all, it is still impressive. I'm sure the software updates will only make it better.
If I had too much money and time that I didn't know what to do with it all, I would try this.]]>Mar 13th 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/
Only time will tell...]]>Mar 13th 2009 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/
Seriously keep this away from Terrorists...]]>Mar 13th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/
sigh.]]>Mar 13th 2009 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Most commercial flight sims (CAE for example) are worth around 25 to 30 million a pop.]]>Mar 13th 2009 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.smh.com.au/news/photogallery/technology/worlds-best-flight-sim/2009/03/13/1236447449989.html]]>Mar 13th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/
For the money he's invested you can buy many, many hours on a commercial Full Motion flight sim. ]]>Mar 13th 2009 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/
But if I had 300k I'd buy a Cirrus SR22. Or save up a little more for a Cessna 400. But if he has a Baron.....]]>Mar 13th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/
Pretty soon that plane is gonna be uninsurable.]]>Mar 13th 2009 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 13th 2009 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/
I con only dream of such a cockpit for playing FS.....:(]]>Mar 14th 2009 12:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 14th 2009 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 14th 2009 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/13/australian-continues-to-hone-300-000-flight-simulator/Mar 15th 2009 6:40AM