Looking for the orginal space simulator ?

[Joe]

This is the actual free simulator i played long ago much more things to do

its hard to learn but you can do alot of things i suggest checking it out
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/

there are addons HD textures and everything brings back good so much

i'm guessing this is where the developer got the idea from..

but there take off etc everything even docking to space stations and other stuff

[orb]

Originally posted by {TCG}Exeagle:

i'm guessing this is where the developer got the idea from..

Well, similarly the developer of Kerbal Space Program got the idea from Orbiter, too, as he (HarvesteR) has been a member of the Orbiter community for a long time before he started working on his game, and other members even asked him if he's getting ideas for a new Orbiter add-on when he asked various questions related to Orbiter engine, when he actually was getting information for starting KSP.

If one game is based on another it doesn't make either of the games better or worse, and people can still choose to pay for a little different game even if they have played the free Orbiter, as long as these games are at least a little different, and I can see this one is mission based with some goals pre-set for each mission, while Orbiter is sandbox where you set your own goals or fly anything you choose. Having missions/goals set in the game may be what some people prefer better.


Anyway, if you check Orbiter, don't forget checking its new beta version, too, which adds quite a few new features as also support for even higher planetary texture resolutions and terrain elevation data (if you can't find it link to Orbiter-Forum is in my Steam profile).