Re: [Flightgear-devel] Microsoft FS Shutdown
I am in contact with one commercial customer of ESP - and they are about as ped about Microsoft shutting down development as everyone else is. Christian -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Microsoft FS Shutdown
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:54:36 -0600, Tom wrote in message 1232938476.19707.15.ca...@big-laptop: Don't kid yourself about MSFS going away anytime soon... For the past couple years, MS has been flooding the market with their commercial-level ESP development environment, for high-end users ..what's an high end user? and developers. They have been pushing commercial licensing with a new front-end SDK into (what I am told) is the MSFS back-end (FDM, visuals, etc). ..freebee lock-ins? Or does people pay money for these kits? If we are talking about add-ons such as higher resolution scenery packs or complete planes that are not included in the base MSFS package. Yes, there is a sizeable market out there for this type of thing. Grab a copy of PC Pilot (UK based magazine) and start reading. The tutorials at the back of the magazine is rather good with Jeppensen maps covering the departure and arrival airfields. There have been some pretty neat things to come out of this so far--just Google Flight1 and have a look at some of the things they have done. The Elite guys tell me that this is all done with the new ESP SDK. There may not be a game called MSFS any longer--but FS isn't going away by any means...at least not from what I've been told by several people active in the market. So Game Off?? :-) Regards George -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Microsoft FS Shutdown
Don't kid yourself about MSFS going away anytime soon... For the past couple years, MS has been flooding the market with their commercial-level ESP development environment, for high-end users and developers. They have been pushing commercial licensing with a new front-end SDK into (what I am told) is the MSFS back-end (FDM, visuals, etc). There have been some pretty neat things to come out of this so far--just Google Flight1 and have a look at some of the things they have done. The Elite guys tell me that this is all done with the new ESP SDK. There may not be a game called MSFS any longer--but FS isn't going away by any means...at least not from what I've been told by several people active in the market. TB -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Microsoft FS Shutdown
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:54:36 -0600, Tom wrote in message 1232938476.19707.15.ca...@big-laptop: Don't kid yourself about MSFS going away anytime soon... For the past couple years, MS has been flooding the market with their commercial-level ESP development environment, for high-end users ..what's an high end user? and developers. They have been pushing commercial licensing with a new front-end SDK into (what I am told) is the MSFS back-end (FDM, visuals, etc). ..freebee lock-ins? Or does people pay money for these kits? There have been some pretty neat things to come out of this so far--just Google Flight1 and have a look at some of the things they have done. The Elite guys tell me that this is all done with the new ESP SDK. There may not be a game called MSFS any longer--but FS isn't going away by any means...at least not from what I've been told by several people active in the market. .. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
