Re: [Opengc-devel] FSUIPC status confirmation

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

That's a great idea, thanks. It was bothering me a bit that people 
would have to pay money to use free software...

As soon as it's released I'll give it a try. For maximum compatibility 
we may keep dual interfaces for a while (since it doesn't sound like 
that would be extra work), although if both FS2002 and 4 are supported 
there's probably not any reason to.

Your project looks great by the way! Seems that not attempting to 
support everything under the sun has allowed you to progress quite a 
bit further in other areas. I'll be sure to give you a plug in the 
presentation I'm giving at the Avsim conference.

Cheers,
-Damion-

On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 04:20 PM, 
Mic...@ai... wrote:

> Hi Damion,
>
> This was an announcement made a few days ago on our new site
> (www.flightdecksoftware.com)
>>
> FDS is proud to report that FDSConnect is now as good as ready and 
> will be
> released within a few days. FDSConnect is a FSUIPC-like interface 
> towards
> FS2004/2002. Much like FSUIPC, FDSConnect makes FS2004/2002 look like 
> FS98.
> FS2004/2002 variables can be found at the same offsets they were in 
> FS98
> and currently are in FSUIPC. Unlike FSUIPC, FDSConnect is and WILL 
> REMAIN
> freeware. For (freeware) developers who are, like us, very unpleased 
> with
> the fact that FSUIPC/WideFS is now payware, switching to FDSConnect is 
> just
> a matter replacing a few function calls. The first release of 
> FDSConnect
> will be FS2004-only but as there are still numerous people flying 
> FS2002
> users we will work hard to get a FS2002 version ready within a few 
> Weeks.
> Off course we are already working on FDSWideConnect, and FDSWideView 
> which
> will both be released within a few weeks.
> <
> After reading your mail I thought this might interrest you.
> Cheers,
> Michael De Feyter

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whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off 
the paint.