EasyFly nun Freeware
 

Nichts ist älter als die Nachtricht von gestern, daher hoffe ich, dass ich noch den einen oder anderen hier mit diesen News begeistern kann.

Simflight.de schreibt heute:

"Der Hersteller Easyfly steigt aus dem Geschäft aus und bietet seine Domain www.easyfly.it zum Verkauf an. Die produzierte Software dient zum Ansteuern mehrerer PC´s, auf denen mit der Software Panels angezeigt werden können. Aufgrund der Aufgabe gibt es jetzt kostenlose, unbegrenzte Lizenzen. Ambitionierte Homecockpit-Konstrukteure sollten auf der Homepage von Easyfly vorbeischauen"

lg,

Hi

Danke für den Tip habe das schon versucht, aber beim Patch runter laden geschiet nichts.


Daniel

leider - bei mir geht der Free-Patch auch nicht saugen.
Also abwarten ...

lg,

well, without the source code this thing is a dead-end anyway.

Something like this for GA as a free software project like FreeFD would definitely be useful.

Tuomas

Hi Tuomas,

well, without the source code this thing is a dead-end anyway.

did you ask them to consider giving away the source ?

Might be worth a try...



Manuel

Yep, I did now. Let's see what they reply. It would be very very useful to have a GA-like remote gauge thingy, especially if one could put custom bitmaps on those and run them on Linux for example.

Tuomas

Yep, I did now. Let's see what they reply. It would be very very useful to have a GA-like remote gauge thingy, especially if one could put custom bitmaps on those and run them on Linux for example.

Yes, granted that it is written in a language where compilers are available under Linux. And then there's the question about the toolkit. But anyway it would be interesting to look at, just to see how they implemented things.

You are the guy who's making the splash screens for the GIMP and also some of the GNOME icons, right ?


Manuel

Yep. Although there are compilers for pretty much anything - it might be useful.

I dont code much myself but it doesnt sound like a good idea to base a cockpit on a piece of code that is not being developed anymore, and the source is not available.

Now that I think about it - I wonder if SDL could be used for gauges.. and I wonder how hard that is to use.. I remember frozen-bubble game is written in sdl-perl.. :-)

Oh yep, I'm the Gnome icon guy.

Tuomas

Hi, Tuomas

Let me know if you manage to get your hands on the sources.
I do a lot of coding. So I'm sure we're able to analyze the source code and get things up and running.

Feel free to drop me a note if you think I can help ;-)

Greetz,
Alex

Juhu!
 

Der Patch download klappt!

It works to download the freelicenc-patch!


with regards

Peter;) ;) ;)

Yep. Although there are compilers for pretty much anything - it might be useful.

I dont code much myself but it doesnt sound like a good idea to base a cockpit on a piece of code that is not being developed anymore, and the source is not available.

Now that I think about it - I wonder if SDL could be used for gauges.. and I wonder how hard that is to use.. I remember frozen-bubble game is written in sdl-perl.. :-)

Oh yep, I'm the Gnome icon guy.

SDL shouldn't be a problem, really. But as far as I understood it, this piece of software doesn't need OpenGL/DirectX so you could actually run it on much older and non-accelerated graphics machines. This makes it particularly interesting.

There are tons of Glass Cockpit/Gauge Software packages. But nearly all need OpenGL. If you wanna look at a Opensource solution that uses OpenGL, you might want to have a look at OpenGC (www.opengc.org) runs on Win and Unix, can connect to FSUIPC and Xplane and Flightgear.

I have been working on a glass cockpit software that directly uses X11 for graphics. That way you can use old 486's for the displays. I'll probably get back to working on it the next weeks.


Manuel

Hi Peter,

Ich habe es versucht mit dem Download von dem Patch. Immer nor tote Hose!!!
Kannst du mir die Datei unter Roger.wielgus@freenet.de schicken ???

Danke

Roger

Schick ich dir doch gern!

Gruss Peter

Vielen Dank, der Download klappt inzwischen wirklich. Die haben den Fehler bemerkt und anstatt der EXE-Version ein Zipfile gelinkt.

lg, Heini

Hallo,

Hat jetzt auch geklappt.

Roger

Well, I'd be very interested in SDL-based (sdl runs on windows too AFAIK) thingy that could run the FS XML gauges (XML + bitmaps, might actually not be THAT hard to implement) but could run them on a remote machine, and also would focus on smooth updates and subpixel antialiasing and moving of the elements.

Most of the existing projects are for glass cockpits, whereas I would find analog gauges more useful.

Tuomas

Ist in den Downloads auch die Doku dabei?

Hi Tuomas,

did you get any replies concerning opensourcing that software ?

No, I havent heard anything from them :(

Could be that they are not reading the email address anymore or such.

/Tuomas