[Opengc-devel] FSUIPC status confirmation

[Damion S. <be...@cs...>]

Hi,

I talked to Pete Dowson, developer of FSUIPC, yesterday and verified 
where OpenGC stands in regards to working with the new payware version 
of FSUIPC. Basically, OpenGC will work fine without any special 
registration provided the user already has a registered copy of WideFS. 
A registered copy of FSUIPC is _not_ required, unless you want to run 
OpenGC on the same machine as the sim (which I discourage for 
performance reasons).

This means that if you are using OpenGC with the FSUIPC data source, 
you should purchase your 3.0+ copy now to avoid problems when we make 
the switch (probably soon). I would like to have the switch 
accomplished before the Avsim conference next week, and will be out of 
town from Friday through the beginning of the conference, so this will 
likely happen tomorrow evening.

Once the switch occurs, we will no longer support earlier (i.e. 
freeware) versions of FSUIPC. The payware version of FSUIPC will, 
however, work with older versions of Flight Simulator, so OpenGC will 
support those as well as the latest and greatest.

Cheers,
-Damion-

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Damion Shelton
The Open Source Glass Cockpit Project (OpenGC)
Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute
http://www.opengc.org
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