On Friday 13 July 2007 03:33, Bernhard Kuhn wrote: > Hi! > > Me too likes to thank the FG developers - really an impressive > piece of software! A friend of mine frequently flying with > a Cessna 172 tried it out and said that the flight dynamics > are pretty realistic! > BTW.: i also purchased X-Plane, but it can't properly handle > three displays in a 3840x1024 xinerama setup whereas FlighGears > performs really nicely - see screen shot attached, airport=ednb, > shrunken to 720x192 with reduced quality in order to fit the > 40 KByte mailing list limit. (btw.: the triangles on the > horizon as seen in the screen shot do only show up while > selecting menus with the mouse, so it's not an issue for me, > but i certainly don't mind if a developer would look into it :-) > > So now my actual question (however, i'm not sure if it's a > user or developer question): > > Does there exist any helpfull documentation or examples for > the FG native protocol, i.e. definition of data structures > passed or maybe even source code examples on how to connect > to FG in order to pull data like air speed, altitude, etc.? > > Background: i'd like to attach several analog multimeters > to the parallel port (driven by pulse width modulation) so > that i can sort of emulate some instruments physically :-) > > Any feedback is highly appreciated! > > regards > > Bernhard
Have you had a looks at http://www.simkits.com/ ? They have all kinds of instruments intended for simluation. I they have started producing models that can be USB connected. The older models had a special control box and only a windows interface was available for the older design (there is a GPL X-Plane plugin for this older controller). I don't know if the USB models have interface specs available. Hal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
