Re: [Opengc-devel] Linux Hardware

[Gene B. <ge...@de...>]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, John Wojnaroski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Over the course of the last year I've been trying to find simulation
> hardware (MCP,EFIS,EICAS,etc) that works with Linux and would support
> open source programs like FlightGear and OpenGC. All I could find was
> Windows stuff ( EPIC, FSUIPC, etc). And there did not seem to be a lot
> of interest in developing stuff for open source software under Linux.


John, you missed out on the Phidget (httpd://www.phidgets.com).  There is
a Linux driver available on SourceForge and someone has also done work on
a Mac OSX version.  It works very similar to EPIC, but is _vastly_ cheaper
to use and more oriented to software developers.

g.

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