Mac Sims?

[wacomme]

What sims are available for the Mac? Which ones work best? I'm seeking a heli sim.

Most of the previous posts on this topic are from year 2004. Any improvements on the Mac front?

Michael

[wallaguest1]

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=611995

[CanCanCase]

All of the previous discussions of MacOS sims have boiled down to a few basic points... I'll summarize here for you.
1) There are 1 or 2 "shareware" sims developed for MacOS, none are considered terribly good by any of the pilots I've talked to.
2) Developers don't see much of a market demand to justify the time and effort required. Same with XBox, PlayStation, etc.
3) All of the new Intel based Macs run all of the major sims quite well. Stay away from a base model iBook or Mini... I'm flying all of them on a 20" iMac right now.

-Case

[macr0t0r]

(sigh) Search is your friend.
Quick re-cap (to give you something to search for).
The link above is the easiest Heli sim to run, but the Physics are too simplistic. I prefer the Heli model in SSS (Slope Soaring Sim....obviously its expanded far beyond just slope soaring. CRRCSIM is the best airplane sim for the Mac.
There are a couple RC models in XPlane, but it takes forever to load up, and it's "small model" physics is not that much better for how much you pay. It's really meant for full-scale flying.

Otherwise, get an Intel Mac, dual-boot to Windows, and use one of the other available sims. For me, I'm happy with SSS for basic "warm-up" flying.

- Jim

[Peregrine Falcon]

(sigh) Search is your friend.
Quick re-cap (to give you something to search for).
The link above is the easiest Heli sim to run, but the Physics are too simplistic. I prefer the Heli model in SSS (Slope Soaring Sim....obviously its expanded far beyond just slope soaring. CRRCSIM is the best airplane sim for the Mac.
There are a couple RC models in XPlane, but it takes forever to load up, and it's "small model" physics is not that much better for how much you pay. It's really meant for full-scale flying.

Otherwise, get an Intel Mac, dual-boot to Windows, and use one of the other available sims. For me, I'm happy with SSS for basic "warm-up" flying.

- Jim

Hi Jim:

I've been trying to find out how to download sss.

Help if you get the chance.

Thanks!
Robert

[Mr Rowl]

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/slope_soaring_sim/

I wouldn't trust the heli behaviour in SSS. I'd never flown a real R/C heli, or even a decent sim before I coded it, and nobody who has has even tried to adjust the model params (let alone the actual flight model) to make it realistic.

[bluesky123]

I've been trying to find out how to download sss.
Help if you get the chance.


Robert,

I sent you a link to Yahoo groups yesterday via PM (check your messages by clicking at "Private Messages" link on top of this page).

Boris

[Ade]

i can confirm that phoenix works quite nicely using bootcamp on intel macs. Im sure the others do too.

Ade

[macr0t0r]

Mr Rowl! Didn't know you were an RCGroups member. Anyhow, the SSS is actually not too bad. I'm digging into the model to see how I could tweak it. As expected, stall characteristics are too forgiving. There is no "tunnel sink" when you drop altitude into your own rotor wash. Also, the disk/body friction needs to be increased. It "slips" through the air far too easily.

I'll post in Yahoo once I figure out how to tweak a couple settings. But, for being free and Mac-compatible, it is actually a very sufficient heli sim for beginner training. I really like how the heli is less stable in hover and makes you WORK to keep it over the pad (as a real heli would). It did a much better job of training my nose-in hovers than RCHeliSim and X-Plane did.

I doubt I can make SSS match my HDX300 in flight characteristics, so I just think of it as "another" heli to keep my flying skills up to snuff during the rainy season.

- Jim

[CanCanCase]

i can confirm that phoenix works quite nicely using bootcamp on intel macs. Im sure the others do too.

Ade
Ade- WHICH Intel Macs have you tested? Will Phoenix run well on a base model Mini with integrated video? How about a MacBook?

I've tested Phoenix, FSOne, AFPD, G3.x and ReflexXTR on a MacBook Pro, Mac Pro and iMac, all running WinXP via BootCamp, and all with good results. In all cases, each system had at least 128MB dedicated video, 1 GB RAM or more, and at least a 2 Ghz Intel Core2Duo processor.

So far, G3.x seems to be the biggest drain on my systems, so I always test it first. If G3.x runs well on a given PC, I can assume the other sims will also.

-Case

[Plantraco]

This R/C Flight sim runs on OSX

http://crrcsim.sourceforge.net/

Download Mac OS X R/C flight sim here:

http://crrcsim.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=CRRCsim.DownLoad

Disk Image drag and drop app - easy installation!

Would like to see if someone has hooked up our Plantraco HFX900 transmitter with FMS cord to this sim on Mac OS X.

This R/C flight sim has potential, and I like that it can run on Mac OSX.

Our HFX900 transmitter has built-in FMS support, but that only works on Windows. CRRCSIM runs on OSX!

[spirko]

Plantraco,
Would like to try your Tx out on a mac (or even a windows box) but I have no machines with a serial port. Do you sell a HFX900 (2) (black) mono-audio to usb cable? Have you tried a serial to usb adapter for this?
Thanks,
Craig

[telos81]

This R/C Flight sim runs on OSX

http://crrcsim.sourceforge.net/

Download Mac OS X R/C flight sim here:

http://crrcsim.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=CRRCsim.DownLoad

Disk Image drag and drop app - easy installation!

Would like to see if someone has hooked up our Plantraco HFX900 transmitter with FMS cord to this sim on Mac OS X.

This R/C flight sim has potential, and I like that it can run on Mac OSX.

Our HFX900 transmitter has built-in FMS support, but that only works on Windows. CRRCSIM runs on OSX!
i tried the Mac-version link and something DLed ... but it didn't work ... is there a trick or something additional I need to do?

also, i got FMS with my Hobby-Lobby plane ... and it came with the audio-cable. FMS runs in Windows XP with BootCamp, but i can't get the audio-cable to work in bootcamp ... has anyone else tried this?