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FlightGear started as an online proposal in 1996 by David Murr, living in the United States. He was dissatisfied with proprietary, available, simulators like the Microsoft Flight Simulator, citing motivations of companies not aligning with the simulators' players ("simmers"), and proposed a new flight simulator developed by volunteers over the Internet.
The Game Gear. This is a list of the 365 [a] games available for Sega's Game Gear handheld video game system. For games that were announced for the Game Gear, but never ended up releasing, see the list of cancelled Game Gear games. There was an adapter for the Game Gear that allowed it to play Master System games. This article lists only the ...
Epicyclic gearing or planetary gearing is a gear system consisting of one or more outer, or planet, gears or pinions, revolving about a central sun gear or sun wheel. [4] [5] Typically, the planet gears are mounted on a movable arm or carrier, which itself may rotate relative to the sun gear.
Universe Sandbox is a series of simulation video games.In Universe Sandbox, users can see the effects of gravity on objects in the universe and run scale simulations of the Solar System, various galaxies or other simulations, while at the same time interacting and maintaining control over gravity, time, and other objects in the universe, such as moons, planets, asteroids, comets, and black holes.
Early full 3D polygonal game Star Conflict: 2012 StarGem Inc Gaijin Entertainment: Windows, Macintosh, Linux Free to play 3D arcade space-shooter, MMO elements. Star Cruiser: 1988 Arsys Software: Arsys Software NEC PC-8801, X68000, Mega Drive: Early full 3D polygonal game [32] [33] Star Crusader: 1994 Take-Two Interactive: Take-Two Publishing ...
SpaceEngine is an interactive 3D planetarium and astronomy software [2] initially developed by Russian astronomer and programmer Vladimir Romanyuk. [3] Development is now continued by Cosmographic Software, an American company founded by Romanyuk and the SpaceEngine Team in February 2022, based in Connecticut.
Add-ons illustrating less well-known internet fiction, like Orion's Arm, or role-playing games, like 2300 AD, and personal works by members of the Celestia community depicting fictional planetary systems with inhabited worlds, spacecraft, cities, and special effects can also be added. An example of a user-made fictional planetary system in Celestia
The construction system Meccano is a popular tool for constructing highly accurate orreries. Model 391, the first Meccano Orrery, was described in the June 1918 Meccano Manual. [29] [30] In Dune Messiah, the 1969 sequel to Dune, there is a description of a desktop orrery representing the two moons of the fictional planet Arrakis and its sun.