Re: [Crrcsim-devel] Is the simulator still alive?

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2007/9/11, Jan Reucker <slo...@gm...>:
> Am Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:29:38 +0300 schrieb "Joonas Saraj=E4rvi" <muepsj@g=
mail.com>:
>
> > Hello, developers :)
>
> Hello Joonas!
>
> > When I quit using Windows, however, I also needed to replace the
> > simulator software to something that was available on Linux.
>
> I guess that's the main reason why people are using CRRCsim. And for me
> it was the main reason to contribute to CRRCsim.

On Windows I used to use FMS, but CRRCsim's flight model is in my
opinion way better than FMS's. I don't know about other freeware
Windows model flight simulators, but I think CRRCsim has also other
strong points, besides being opensource and available on Linux.

> > the settings file myself. The fact that the simulator runs perfectly
> > well on a Radeon X300 with an open source video driver is very nice,
> > too.
>
> Yes, but unfortunately the NVidia (closed source) drivers still seem
> to be the best choice for Linux.

Yep, for Nvidia the closed drivers are pretty much the only option for
OpenGL acceleration, at the moment. The situation for ATI seems to be
changing quickly, AMD says they will be opening specs for their newer
cards and their closed fglrx drivers are getting a performance boost
soon. If I had to buy a graphics card right now, I'd go with ATI.

> > The simulator still need some attention, though. At least there is a
> > bug that crashes the simulator when I try to set up my joystick axis.
>
> Do you have any experience with the GNU toolchain, especially GDB?
> Then you could try to produce a backtrace from the point where
> CRRCsim crashed. This could help us fix the bug.
Not much, but thanks to your instructions, I'll try to do that soon.


> > There are some planes that don't fly well, if at all. The engine sound
> > in some planes isn't very good.
>
> It was hard to find free (not copyrighted) sound files. If you can provid=
e
> better ones I'd gladly add them to CRRCsim.
The Freesound Project [ http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php ] may
have something suitable. I'll try to take a look there when I have
time.
> > The release tarball's build system
> > isn't really flexible, though it gets the job done in many cases.
>
> Andreas already wrote about it on the crrcsim Yahoo group: We've started
> to create an autoconf script, so hopefully we can provide the standard
> "configure;make;make install" build system with the next release.

This is great. I have been trying to learn to create one myself, but I
still have much to learn about that.


> > Is the simulator still being developed? When I look at the mailing
> > list archive, the latest message seems to be from around April of this
> > year. Have you lost interest in the project, or maybe just moved the
> > discussion elsewhere? Or maybe you all are just flying? It's a nice
> > hobby, anyways.
>
> Well, speaking for myself, the amount of spare time that I can spend for
> my hobbies has become very small. And during the summer I usually choose
> to go flying instead of hacking some new stuff into CRRCsim...
It great that we have our own life and hobbies. This simulator
wouldn't even exist without them, after all. I very much appreciate
that you people have created CRRCsim on your free time and even giving
it for everybody to use as free software. I do some programming
myself, so I can at least admire all the hours you have put into it. I
wish I could help with programming projects like this some day.