From: James T. <zak...@ma...> - 2012-11-06 22:45:00
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On 6 Nov 2012, at 21:16, Durk Talsma wrote: > > Yes, I also talked to Martin Crompton. James told me later on that you had been in touch with him. My action was rather spontaneous, so I asked him whether we could try to support Saitek products, without me knowing that you were also working on it. I hope we can join forces. I got their radiostack to try, and this looks like it's going to be a little more involved, since it may need its own USB driver. I'll try to send Martin just a quick note later tonight. I had a quick look, and it's going to be tricky to support the part without some docs, since on Windows everything happens through a custom driver. On the other hand, if they support X-plane (they don't mention if they do) they will need something else - their current driver is really an MSFS plug-in I think. > > This is always a tricky one. At FSWeekend I found our visitor's reception of the project really quite different, ranging from "Increadibly cool that you do all of this by yourself" to "Give me one good reason why I should change from FSX". The former is always a nice way of starting a conversation (and usually runs into a situation where our visitors hang around our booth for an hour or so), while the latter feels oftentimes like a waste of effort. This is probably also because the people asking the latter type of question don't strike me as the persons who really have a fine-tuned for the subtleties of aviation that makes FlightGear such a cool program. So, the bottom-line is that I would also be very interested in a short concise list of features that we do better than FSX. Amongst the many small tweaks I want for next year, is some nicely printed materials (in Dutch! and English) with some FAQs: is this MSFS? No, it's flightgear, it runs on Linux and Mac too.. How much does it cost? Nothing, you can download it from .... Are you using a Matrox TripleHead2Go? No, we support multiple views, video-cards and cameras.... Can I use aircraft or scenery from MSFS? No, but you can maybe convert them.... Can it talk to my joystick / some other thing? .... You get the idea :) Regards, James |