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Orbiter is a realistic 3D real-time space flight simulator program. Official site with free download. DownloadDownload mirror 1 Europe - Textures - Gallery - Links - .

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You can use realistic simulators like: http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ (it's free and open-source: https://github.com/orbitersim/orbiter ) so it means that now the main problem is... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Orbiter is more of a hardcore spacesim than a "game" in traditional sense, but also qualify. Source: almost 3 years ago
Orbiter does it, but I doubt the solution they use (whatever it is) would work with the game engine Nova uses. Reentry does it too. I guess it depends on how the game has been coded. Probably difficult to implement if it wasn't designed... Source: about 3 years ago
Use Shell New Handler. Run the portable app and simply untick the items you don't want to appear in your new context menu. Source: about 4 years ago
I've always used ShellNewHandler for this. It's a really simple portable utility that allows you to remove most of the items from that menu. Tested it out on Windows 11 and it's still compatible. Source: over 5 years ago
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Digital Combat Simulator is a Free-to-play, Single and Multiplayer Combat Flight Simulation developed by Eagle Dynamics and published by The Fighter Collection.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator X is an exciting Open World, Realistic, Single and Multiplayer Flight Simulation developed by ACES Game Studio and published by Microsoft Game Studios.
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IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 is also called IL-2: 1946 is a Flight Simulation video game by Ubisoft.
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