Re: [Flightgear-devel] Garmin GNS 530

2004-12-13 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:54, Boris Koenig wrote: Well thanks for the pointer, I am going to contact Garmin yet another time anyway: Another FlightGear user informed me yesterday that there IS already an application that interfaces the original (software) simulator unit with MS FS 200x -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Garmin GNS 530

2004-11-23 Thread Gerhard Wesp
So, one would really need to define a corresponding network interface. This does already exist and is specified in the ``400/500 Series Flight Sim ICD.'', a proprietary Garmin document. It describes the RS232 interface of their _hardware_ simulator units. I guess Bill Stone would give it to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Garmin GNS 530

2004-11-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:50:14 +0100, Gerhard wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, one would really need to define a corresponding network interface. This does already exist and is specified in the ``400/500 Series Flight Sim ICD.'', a proprietary Garmin document. It describes the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Garmin GNS 530

2004-11-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Gerhard Wesp wrote: So, one would really need to define a corresponding network interface. This does already exist and is specified in the ``400/500 Series Flight Sim ICD.'', a proprietary Garmin document. It describes the RS232 interface of their _hardware_ simulator units. I guess Bill Stone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Garmin GNS 530 (was: Quick report from AOPA)

2004-11-22 Thread Boris Koenig
This is something that I intended to post already weeks ago - it's likely to exceed the mysterious 1024 byte limit, though ;-) Curtis Olson wrote: A lot of people asked about GPS modeling which we (and FlightGear) really don't do a good job of yet. There are few flight simulators that really

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Garmin GNS 530

2004-11-22 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Boris, I got about 20% through your message before I ran out of steam, but if you talk to Bill again, why don't you propose that they keep their application closed source and proprietary. Having seen the commercial side of life just a bit, there are good reasons for these guys to be careful.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Garmin GNS 530

2004-11-22 Thread Boris Koenig
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Boris, I got about 20% through your message before I ran out of steam, sounds like you are somewhat related to Erik ;-) but if you talk to Bill again, why don't you propose that they keep their application closed source and proprietary. Having seen the commercial side of