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Description of X-Plane 5
From the Readme file:
There are four versions of X-Plane on this CD:
- CLASSIC for Macintosh
- 5.54 for Macintosh
- CLASSIC for Windows
- 5.54 for Windows
X-Plane Classic will almost certainly work on your machine regardless of what type of machine you have, and will give great frame rates (fluid feeling of flight) as well. The drawback is that the graphics are sort of plain.
X-Plane 5.54, on the other hand, has outstanding graphics, but the drawback is that you must have a 3-D accelerator video card that has OpenGL drivers to run that version.
Comments and reviews
Jupiter2021-08-310 point Windows version
Was there ever a No-CD for 'Classic version' of the game?
jon_the_id2020-12-151 point
This runs really well on Windows 10 without any fiddling about at all. Very playable. You can actually get updates for this (5.6, 5.99) from the x-plane site.
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Various files to help you run X-Plane 5, apply patches, fixes, maps or miscellaneous utilities.
Mac Version
- Year:1999
- Publisher:Laminar Research
- Developer:Laminar Research
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PLEASE NOTE
The screenshots that are shown below and in the featured section at the top of this page have been captured while third-party add-ons were used with X-Plane 11. They are not shot using the default X-Plane Demo features. They essentially show you what's possible within the sim once you own the full version.