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Old 19th Oct 2006, 12:04
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Large screen flight sim?

I'm NOT a great game player and dread the thought of "shoot-em-up" XBox (or whatever) games - BUT I have just taken delivery of a decent size (42") LCD flat panel, widescreen, HDTV.

It did make me wonder if there is a decent flight sim producer to plug into it that I could use for practising with - not playing with.

Couple of points - I do have a very low powered laptop permanently wired to the TV (for internet radio use) but doubt that it would be powerful enought to run a decent program (700mHz processor, 512 RAM) - and do not really want to buy a full blown PC to replace it just to fly the odd ILS and NDB approach....so I'm wondering about a purpose bought sim machine, not just another PC.

I'm also wondering if the TV itself would handle the graphics required to run such software reasonably.

Any thoughts?
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