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by DonHopkins 218 days ago
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. [...]