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Another Quality Shareware Product
distributed by
Wild West Software
TRACON
A GAME, OR A DEADLY REFLECTION OF REALITY?
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It looks simple - just keep every blip on your scope apart as you vector them
around for aproaches and departures. But they keep coming - pushing you to your
limits! And you alone must prevent a dreaded crash between airliners loaded
with passengers.
TRACON, an air traffic control (ATC) simulation for IBM PC and compatible
microcomputers. TRACON recreates the environment of a real Terminal Radar
Approach CONtrol center located at Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston,
or Miami.
Here is what some TRACON users have to say:
"I was a nervous wreck after watching the 15 minute demonstration."
- The New York Times
"Now I appreciate what the guys down there go through!"
- C.B. Instrument Pilot Magazine
"[TRACON] adds up to hours and hours of enjoyment."
- PCM Magazine
"I recommend it for training our ATC students."
- Air Force Officer
"An absolutely realistic simulation. First class!"
- LAX Controller
"...greatly exceeded my expectations."
- D.S., Colorado
"...stunning VGA graphics!"
- T.S., Wisconsin
"...this game actually talks to you! Great!"
- L.C., Texas
Like the flight simulators, this product enables you to experience the thrill
and tension of an exciting professional environment that otherwise requires
many years of training," said Dr. Robert B. Wesson, the program's designer and
developer of other highly-acclaimed artificial intelligence software. "A host
of FAA personnel and actual controllers have made TRACON the most complete air
traffic control simulation ever created for microcomputers. So real, in fact,
that we do not call it a 'game' even though it is tremendously challenging and
fun to 'play'."
TRACON turns the IBM PC graphics screen into an electronic ATC center complete
with RADARSCOPE, FLIGHTSTRIPS, and COMMUNICATIONS. After you choose a sector to
control, the simulator generates realistic traffic flows from its store of
hundreds of different aircraft types (from Piper Cubs to Boeing 747 "heavies")
and thousands of possible routes of flight along real airways and radio fixes.
Using either the keypad or a mouse, you must prevent a dreaded mid-air
collision while taking each aircraft to its destination as efficiently as
possible through radar vectors and altitude or speed assignments. The program
awards points for fuel-efficient routings while subtracting points for near
misses, missed approaches, and other controller mistakes.
Whereas previous ATC games used highly-simplified "toy" sectors with text-based
aircraft, TRACON exploits the full IBM graphics capabilities (including EGA and
VGA) with a full-graphics radar scope filled with FAA-standard aircraft icons
and their leader lines, real airports and their surrounding geography, radio
fixes, and airways. One of the demonstration scenarios synchronizes with a
cassette tape of voice commands (included) to enfold you with a complete audio/
visual experience. In TRACON, as in the real world, pilots make mistakes, veer
off-course, and miss approaches due to low ceilings. Your job is to keep
everything together no matter what happens up there.
THE NEW VERSION TALKS TO YOU VIA THE PCs SPEAKER. FANTASTIC!
The newest TRACON -- Version 1.5 -- now "talks" to you via your computer's
internal speaker -- no special hardware required. You can hear each command
you issue and the pilots' responses over a simulated radio channel just as you
would using any aircraft-band scanner or transceiver. The difference is:
you're in control, not "them."
A fully-functional version of TRACON 1.5 is available immediately from Wild
West Software. It can be purchased for $49.95 plus $5 shipping directly from
the company by calling 1-512-266-1615 or mailing the user registration card
contained in the file ORDER.TXT. The purchase price includes a hundred-page
manual filled with ATC details and a quick-reference guide, the software on
either 5.25" or 3.5" diskette, and an audio cassette tape demonstration
scenario. It requires an IBM PC or compatible microcomputer, any graphics
adapter and monitor, one disk drive, and DOS 2.0 or higher. Wild West Software
offers an unconditional 30-day money-back guarantee on the product, and usually
ships via UPS 2nd-day-air the day after an order arrives.
==============INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE=================
This demonstration disk should give you a good flavor of TRACON.
To see the demonstration, simply put this disk into the selected
drive and type the word TRACON to DOS. Or copy the files on this
disk into a subdirectory on your hard drive, change to that
subdirectory, and type TRACON. The self-repeating demonstration
will take about 15 minutes to complete.
About the only key active during the demo is the Alt-T "talking"
toggle key. Press it once to disable controller talking but leave
pilots on; press it again to disable all talking; and press again
to hear both again. To end the demo and return to the DOS
prompt, press Esc or Alt-X anytime during the demonstration.
The following files should be on this demo disk:
TRACON.EXE TRACON.VOI TRACON.INI LAX.SEC
LAX.VOI DEMO.DMO DEMO.SIM READ.ME
You are encouraged to make copies of this disk for your friends,
customers, and acquaintances.