alt Hacker NewsCute. Shame the basic physics are wrong; a narrowboat is tiller driven (you push the controls left to go right) and rotates about its center, whereas this is closer to the front. Also reversing flips the dynamics, is much less directionally stable than forward motion, and introduces the Fun of both prop walk and potential cavitation.
Plus a real canal boat simulator would put a weed hatch incident well before a tidal wave.
Can’t believe I’ve been living on one of these things since before we discovered we were in the mirror timeline.
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jdeastwood • today at 7:13 AM
There is a more simulatory simulator linked at the bottom of the post, narrowboat simulator by Michael Donning.
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coryrc • today at 7:25 AM
Also no one yelling at you for going too fast next to docked boats :)
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Got to have the effect of squat slowing you down any time you try to move too fast on a canal too, and then that remarkable difference when you get out onto a decent sized river.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to want to load for me so I can't see whether it's simulated the fun of single-handing locks...
(Bought mine because I was living in the mirror timeline, now on sale so I can stop acting like I'm retired and do some actual work rather than pootling about at 2mph all day...)