Actually I bought an "el cheapo" (EKEN m009s) android tablet for the explicit
purpose of trying to use it as a rudimentary MFD, exploiting also the touch
screen interface. Currently I am playing a bit with HTML5 features, but a
native implementation would probably be better and would free up CPU cycles on
the machine running FlightGear.
> To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> From: martin.sp...@mgras.net
> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:35:05 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Slackware packages for 2.4.0
>
> Curtis Olson wrote:
>
> > Also, we have older packages that were available for Sun, sgi, and FreeBSD.
>
> Providing packages for FreeBSD is a waste of effort as FlightGear is
> available as a "port" on FreeBSD and I'm convinced they'll upgrade to
> 2.4.0 soon.
> SGI is almost dead as a platform and, well, Sun .... last time I
> looked at building FG on Sun there was too little interest in
> maintaining platform compatibility with compilers on Unix who don't
> support certain GCC'isms. Therefore I'd probably recommend to move
> these packages into an "attic" section.
>
> > Can anyone comment on the latest package versions available for these
> > platforms and if we still want to list them on our download page? Who's
> > going to be the first to come out with an Android package? :-)
>
> There is a rudimentary X-Plane for the iPhone but I'm uncertain if it's
> worth the effort adapting the main sim to such a low-end graphics
> system. "Flying" X-Plane on the iPhone starts as a big fun but becomes
> pretty boring pretty soon. Anyhow, having a gadget like a remote
> instrument panel on these devices might look really cool ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Martin.
> --
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