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Who made the first diy motion sim?

Discussion in 'Off Topic - All other stuff here' started by Raredog, Jun 23, 2016.

  1. Raredog

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    I see lots of great projects and ideas here, and as I am basically just copying some of your designs I would like to hear who first made a diy motion sim? Anyone on this board or?
    Raredog, Jun 23, 2016
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  2. Historiker

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  3. noorbeast

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    This is one of the earliest approaches to DIY motion simulation :grin



    Seriously though some of the founding members here are still around and were into building DIY motion simulatiors even before Xsimulator.net was established a decade ago.
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    noorbeast, Jun 24, 2016
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    i remmember the first i saw was a model made by a greek guy with a nickname "tronik" i guess he is here in this forum but is not too active... but i remmember that the story of sim tools go back to the days of a commercial product called "rock and ride" or something like that

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    ferslash, Jun 24, 2016
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    Mmcool, Jun 25, 2016
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  6. noorbeast

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    The DIY flight sim guys have been at it since at least 2002: http://www.avsim.com/topic/132287-full-motion-simulator/

    “Rock'n'Ride sims have been around since the mid 90s, and the SimCraft co-founder also created a DIY prototype in the mid 90s, which was later made opensource on Sourceforge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCraft

    The Link trainer sims had their origins way back in 1929, though I think you could reasonably call that the first commercial simulator: http://www.xsimulator.net/community/threads/golden-oldie-link-trainer-simulator.7335/
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    noorbeast, Jun 25, 2016
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    Sorry, I thought we were talking about DIY simulators that were actually compatible with x-sim or simtools software for car racing...
    Mmcool, Jun 25, 2016
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    f1iceman Why So Serious ? ( The Joker )

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    like of motion was when i was a kid n outrun and afterburner and f1 super monaco aracde machines.
    f1iceman, Jun 26, 2016
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