Re: [Opengc-devel] Linux Hardware

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

> cross-platform compliant, and it's not always easy or fun...
>
Nothing worth doing ever is.  I keep telling myself this every time I cut
my hand or bust a knuckle working on the F-15. :0

> application layer. And peek and poke just don't cut it.
>
You keep referring to "peeking and pokeing".  What are you referring to?
No simulator that I've ever seen would use such a method.  The closest
I've seen is Falcon 4 using shared memory segments to expose a small data
set to drive a master caution panel and some basic instruments.

> But from what I've seen, the market is for hardware and interfaces to work
> with and in the windows environment so one either goes with the flow, sets
> their own course, or does without.
>
Well keep in mind that these guys are hackers at heart and if you can show
them a need for other platform drivers they'll be happy to comply.

> Enjoyed the stories and pics on your website. These projects have a way of
> consuming us, don't they?  ;-)

Thanks.  Yeah, it gets out of hand now and again. :)

g.