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Re:Star Citizen developers intend to drop DirectX support an... by edmccard on Sunday March 19, 2017 @06:16PM (#13909995)
>And I think back a few years when people said we'd never be able to fly seamlessly from orbit down to the surface of a procedurally generated planet.

Starflight[1] could do that back in 1986[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFMxNlK8L4g&feature=youtu.be...

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Re:Star Citizen developers intend to drop DirectX support an... by wavefunction on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:00PM (#13919232)
In 3D 4k resolution (Soon™ ;) ?
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