OS and Flight Simulator

Evening Everyone!

Forgive me for my ignorance, but any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Just found the light and bought a imac. I used to use Flight simulator a lot on my old pc and im wondering how I can get it installed on my mac.

I understand the process may be using bootcamp , windows , etc .. but I am wondering if this can be done using an external drive ? , I dont really want to clog up my mac's own drive with flight sim (as its huge).

I have the windows xp upgrade CD as well , is that enough or would I need to buy vista?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Jim

If you're referring to MS Flight Simulator, then yes, you will definitely have to install a copy of either XP or Vista using Boot Camp. FS will not run in a virtual machine such as Fusion or Parallels.

You will also need a Full (no upgrades) install version of XP SP2 or 3. It can either be a MS boxed copy or an OEM system builders version. Please read the Boot Camp instructions that came with your Leopard DVD. (It's a PDF file.)

If you're willing to spend some money and really want to fly the best simulator, might I suggest you take a look at "X-Plane"? Go to their web page and read up on it. Link All I can tell you is if you have the right hardware, X-Plane is awesome!

X-Plane has versions for both OS X and Windows.

Regards.

Hi , thanks for the reply.

i have got x-plane , but to be honest I really do prefer FS - just a personal thing I guess.

Is it possible to install XP/Vista and FS on an external drive to save clogging the internal one?

Thanks again!

Loading windows on an external is problematic, boitcamp does allow it as an option and Windows will not do it without some modifications

The subject has been discussed here
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/wi...r-os/103298-bootcamp-external-hard-drive.html

However, you could easily get XP to run on a small partition, say 5 gig if it is just for the one game

Ah ok , so if I installed windows onto the internal drive , could i then install FSX onto an external?