From owner-linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Thu Jul 20 05:35:56 2000 Received: by humbolt.nl.linux.org id ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 05:35:14 +0200 Received: from [204.120.151.12] ([204.120.151.12]:11784 "EHLO wiley.infoplane.com") by humbolt.nl.linux.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 05:34:43 +0200 Received: from pinky.infoplane.com ([204.120.151.23] ident=mail) by wiley.infoplane.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13F6zN-0006Od-00 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:27:09 -0500 Received: from curt by pinky.infoplane.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13F76d-0002RM-00 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:34:39 -0500 From: Curt MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14710.29519.50947.265045@pinky.infoplane.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:34:39 -0500 (CDT) To: linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Subject: LinuxWorld Expo X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-aviation-list The FlightGear project (www.flightgear.org) is investigating the possibility of setting up a booth at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose, Aug 15-17. There is an outside chance that we could have a motion chair in the booth for doing demos. If everything would work out it could be a cool thing. One of our developers has already taken FlightGear + motion chair to a couple air shows and has generated a lot of interest. I know there are a few other people on this list working on aviation related open source projects. If things were to fall in place for us and we would get a booth at LinuxWorld expo, would any of you be interested in joining us to give your projects a presence as well? I suppose this could mean anything from sending us a stack of flyers to put on the table ... all the way up to joining us and demoing your projects next to ours. As I said, we are just starting to investigate this. Our plan right now is to push forward as if it will happen, and hope things start coming together. So far we've got more good vibes than bad so we'll see. :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olson University of MN, ME Dept. Flight Gear Project Twin Cities curt@me.umn.edu curt@flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org - Archives of linux-aviation: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/linux-aviation/ To unsubscribe: send the command "unsubscribe linux-aviation" in the body of a mail message to . From owner-linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Fri Jul 21 20:34:32 2000 Received: by humbolt.nl.linux.org id ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 20:33:46 +0200 Received: from mail.me.umn.edu ([128.101.141.206]:29968 "EHLO mail.me.umn.edu") by humbolt.nl.linux.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 20:33:02 +0200 Received: from kenai.me.umn.edu (root@kenai.me.umn.edu [134.84.18.22]) by mail.me.umn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA65855; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:32:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from curt@me.umn.edu) Received: (from curt@localhost) by kenai.me.umn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA25045; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:32:44 -0500 From: "Curtis L. Olson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14712.38732.192263.438851@kenai.me.umn.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:32:44 -0500 (CDT) To: linux-aviation@nl.linux.org, flight-sim@grove.iup.edu, toma@cstone.net, news@flightsim.com, news@simflight.com, brandor@combatsim.com, linux-announce@sws1.ctd.ornl.gov, xplane-tech@egroups.com Subject: FlightGear Version 0.7.4 X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-aviation-list FlightGear version 0.7.4 is now available for download. The FlightGear Flight Simulator project is a free, open-source flight simulator project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GPL. There is a new 0.7.4 version of the base package that corresponds with this new release. Everyone that upgrades will need to download this as well. If you build FlightGear-0.7.4 from source, you will also need to first download and install plib-1.2.0 and SimGear-0.0.12. For more information on this project, please visit the Flight Gear web page at: http://www.flightgear.org Version 0.7.4 adds nicer clouds, a first start at airport runways, and quite a few tweaks, bug fixes, and refinements. Also, we did a substantial amount of code clean up and reorganization that won't be immediately visible from a user perspective. Here is a more detailed list of changes. * VOR reception now scales with altitude. * Added differential braking support. * Landing gear modeling code now works in JSBSim * Overhauled cloud code substantially, new cloud textures. * Added support for Ray Woodworth's 5 axis motion chair. * Red light the panel at night and shade based on time of day. * Fixed autopilot altitude hold increment bug. * Fixed screen snap shot function. * Fixed mach number for LaRCsim. * --start-date-gmt option fixed. * Fixes to uiuc includes and initializations * Fixes to periodic scheduler. * Fixed a tile loading bug if the load queue wasn't empty before a reset or teleport. * Some additional MSVC5 portability fixes. * Tweaks to build with newest gcc under Irix contributed by Erik Hofman. * Clean out a pile of old junk in the material manager library from the pre-ssg days, and majorly overhauled it. * Complete reengineering of the panel code in preparation for moving the configuration out into a data file. * Lots of hashing around with Joystick support trying to achieve something that is flexible enough to handle the zillions of possible configurations out there. Hopefully we are approaching a workable solution. * Better windows support in our joystick module. * View code simplifications and optimizations contributed by Norman Vine. * Added support for $FG_SCENERY and --fg-scenery=path so scenery can have a different location from the base package. * Moved drop in sky module, world time module, ephemeris module, and low level communications modules over to simgear. * Replaced gdbm with metakit * Added David Megginson's property manager Curt. -- Curtis Olson Human Factors Research Lab Flight Gear Project Twin Cities curt@hfrl.umn.edu curt@flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org - Archives of linux-aviation: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/linux-aviation/ To unsubscribe: send the command "unsubscribe linux-aviation" in the body of a mail message to .