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There use to be a set of games which were available for SunOS and may be Solaris, including a flight simulator with wired frame graphics, and Sun even had released a book about these games at that time(may be early 1990's).

Are they also covered by these? Anyone remember a flight simulator with wireframe graphics available Unices?

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Hello, I am the author of the article. I did not know of those games you mention at the time. We used to play conquer at the AIX (Unix) that our computer labs provided for all the alumni. I have only tracked conquer's authors to obtain their permissions to relicense and preserve in a way that others could study and build upon.

"The Book of Unix Games" by Janice Winsor is the book. Seems hard to find now.

I bought a copy of Aviator by Curt Priem and Bruce Factor, that ran on my SS2 pizzabox's GX "LEGO: Low End Graphics Option" SBus card (an 8 bit color + 2 bits monochrome overlay plane graphics accelerator):

https://www.techmonitor.ai/hardware/aviator_15_for_sun_netwo...

>AVIATOR 1.5 FOR SUN NETWORKS OPENS UP GRAPHICS WORKSTATION GAMES MARKET. By CBR Staff Writer, 08 Jul 1991.

https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?threads/aviator-a-flight-sim...

https://bitsavers.org/bits/Sun/aviator/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RQscDJCy4c

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44049987

>Bruce Factor and Curtis Priem developed a flight simulator called Aviator for Sun's S-Bus GX graphics accelerator. I had one of them on my SS2, and owned a copy of Aviator on CDROM, and loved to play it. [...]

ACM, Sabre?

It doesn't seem to be that widely known, any reason why?

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