Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbee

2004-08-08 Thread Al West
On Monday 09 August 2004 02:35, Jim Wilson wrote: David said: What IDE do you suggest me? No ide is necessary for this type of app. A good editor like emacs is fine. Half the time I just run the first gui editor I think of to do quick edits, just because they'll usually support the common

OT: Birds for Information Processing Was: [Flightgear-devel] Ready for next release?

2004-07-28 Thread Al West
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 18:53, Curtis L. Olson wrote: We have now done 3 pre-releases and hopefully we have most of the major issues dealt with for this release. Have we missed any patch submissions? Are there any remaining issues that can be *quickly* dealt with? If I sat a chicken at a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Main fg_init.cxx, 1.104, 1.105 main.cxx, 1.171, 1.172

2004-07-23 Thread Al West
On Friday 23 July 2004 15:23, Jim Wilson wrote: Sure enough, it's right there in Stroustrup. The strange part is never having noticed this before now. What is it with these developers at microsoft anyway? ;-) Since when have they had developers? Cheers, Al

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Success

2004-07-23 Thread Al West
On Friday 23 July 2004 15:21, Jon Berndt wrote: I'll stop whining, now. ;-) I was able to build simgear and flightgear with the OpenAL libs. I've built it fine too - acutally being able to run it is a different matter. Is it running for you? I've tried all sorts of openalrc files with or

[Flightgear-devel] 0.9.5pre OpenAL

2004-07-21 Thread Al West
Downloaded and installed 0.9.5.pre after finally getting a working basefile (net problems atm). When I run flightgear openal complains about volume greater than 1.0 and something about 'cough' - though it's not on my system (Gentoo 2.6.7 - Opteron 146). I thought I'd start fgfs with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL

2004-07-20 Thread Al West
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 14:35, Jon Berndt wrote: I think this is what you are looking for : ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/openal_cyg.tgz -Fred OK, I got it from the link that Erik supplied (thanks Erik). Now I have these files. Can you tell me where I can put them?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Laptop

2004-07-12 Thread Al West
On Monday 12 July 2004 00:39, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..http://www.google.com/search?q=laptop+replacement+battery returns 577,000 hits, FWIW, auxillary drops those hits to 17200: http://www.google.com/search?q=laptop+auxiliary+battery One thing to consider also is a 12V DC to 16-20V DC convertor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] L1011-500

2004-07-02 Thread Al West
On Friday 02 July 2004 13:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it ok to exchange files here, or should I learn to use CVS? Probably not a good idea to send the file to list. I'm sure one of the guys who has CVS access will ask you to email them the files soon, so they can put it into CVS. Look

[Flightgear-devel] Gentoo Ebuilds for FlightGear CVS...

2004-06-15 Thread Al West
I have updated my Gentoo ebuilds for FlightGear CVS which includes SimGear CVS and OpenAL CVS. The file is located at: http://www.prbox.com/FlightGearCVS.ebuild.tgz You need to extract this file into /usr/local/portage (or whatever is specified as the portage overlay in /etc/make.conf). You

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-20 Thread Al West
On Thursday 20 May 2004 08:13, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Looks like Maik's rotor RPM numbers are off (442 RPM). I can't make sense of the dual tacho. What doesn't make sense? ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-20 Thread Al West
On Thursday 20 May 2004 14:02, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Al West -- Thursday 20 May 2004 14:43: On Thursday 20 May 2004 08:13, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Looks like Maik's rotor RPM numbers are off (442 RPM). I can't make sense of the dual tacho. What doesn't make sense? The ticks

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Why ZERO

2004-05-12 Thread Al West
On Thursday 13 May 2004 01:24, Jonathan Richards wrote: There's still lots of scientific stuff in Fortran. And there are plenty of Zeroth laws in science. Cheers, Al ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..com test; I see no posts in 2 days here???

2004-05-10 Thread Al West
On Monday 10 May 2004 13:43, Arnt Karlsen wrote: Hi, ..com test; I see no posts in 2 days here??? Guess because no posts have been made - it was the weekend afterall and a nice sunny one here in the UK at that. Cheers, Al ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NewsGear ...

2004-05-04 Thread Al West
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 13:31, Jim Wilson wrote: David Megginson said: ... is the best idea I've read so far, though I don't remember who suggested it. I agree, but we have more time. Even though it sounded good, the reservation I had was that even though we all know the connection, it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Al West
On Sunday 02 May 2004 16:20, Jonathan Richards wrote: Firstly, a title. Jon's newsletter is called 'Back of the Envelope', which How about Foxtrot Golf ? Secondly, we're missing suggestions for content. Suggest away, but what I'd really like is for you to suggest and volunteer to write, as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] COLLISION DETECTION: possible or not?

2004-04-30 Thread Al West
On Friday 30 April 2004 17:50, Erik Hofman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, as I told to Andy Ross I would like to implement a truck driving simulation in FlightGear but my doubt regards the collision detection, which is not implemented! It's only a week that I study FlightGear code

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flightgear and hardware: mailinglist created

2004-04-30 Thread Al West
On Friday 30 April 2004 18:45, Gene Buckle wrote: Gene Buckle wrote: You could've saved yourself the effort and joined the simpits-tech mailing list at http://www.simpits.org. There's over 300 people on the list. I AM on that list :) I've even posted a few times. AOLMe too/AOL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: COLLISION DETECTION: possible or not?

2004-04-30 Thread Al West
On Friday 30 April 2004 21:52, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Norman Vine wrote: Melchior FRANZ writes: * Al West -- Friday 30 April 2004 20:05: Is collision detection part of the model/dynamics set per aircraft? Just I've been flying through the buildings in San Fran all afternoon in the bo105

[Flightgear-devel] autogen.sh question

2004-04-28 Thread Al West
Hi, Over the past couple of days I've been fine tuning my gentoo ebuild scripts for CVS SimGear and FlightGear. Chris Horler has been great in answering my dumb questions about the automake and autoconf tools. So rather than just ask Chris dumb question I thought I'd come here too ;-) My

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs]CVS: FlightGear/src/Input input.cxx, 1.43, 1.44 input.hxx, 1.17, 1.18

2004-04-27 Thread Al West
Is all this required? Surely the axes mapping difference is consistant. So that all the would be required is to apply the appropraite mapping at compile time. I don't think there is a need to have glorified or different config files for joysticks. On Tuesday 27 April 2004 15:32, Richard

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL

2004-04-25 Thread Al West
Under Gentoo: emerge openal then it built fine against CVS Simgear however I'm having trouble getting autogen.sh to pick everything up correctly for building CVS FlightGear. Is anyone here running CVS FlightGear under Gentoo? If not I may have to look into how to construct an ebuild for

[Flightgear-devel] OpenAL + Gentoo Ebuilds for CVS

2004-04-25 Thread Al West
Greetings, I can also confirm sound in FlightGear through OpenAL is working well (better with arts support enabled rather than just alsa or oss emulation). Don't quite understand why but it may be because I'm running under KDE. I've finally got as far as I can with the ebuilds on Gentoo for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-23 Thread Al West
On Friday 23 April 2004 10:59, Jon Stockill wrote: They were particularly impressed with the seahawk and hunter models, so if Vivian wants to do a Seafire version of his spitfire model I'm sure they'd be happy to supply some information. Also they said they would be happy to help with anyone

[Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-22 Thread Al West
Greetings All, I think it was very successful show. I estimate we got about 80 or so people a day flying with FlightGear, around 10% managed to land. It was a shame that we were not able to use the controls within the helicopter, due to a 'feature' in HP/Compaq Machine USB controller.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Al West
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 17:15, Norman Vine wrote: Curtis L. Olson writes: 2. We have a *lot* of aircraft in the base package. I suggest we limit the base package to 2 or 3 aircraft at most IMHO better if this is only 1 aircraft though and have a supplemental aircraft package(s) for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux Expo Blurb

2004-03-10 Thread Al West
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 14:35, Jon Stockill wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Erik Hofman wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: At Linux-Expo the FlightGear team hope to have a Westland Wasp (kindly donated by the Fleet Air Arm Museum) linked to a FlightGear simulator to demonstrate the flexibility

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Linux User Developer Expo 2004]

2004-01-14 Thread Al West
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 2:29 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: FlightGear has been offered free .org booth space and a possible speaker slot at the Linux User Developer Expo 2004. This is Oct 20-21 at the Olympia Exhibition Centre in London, UK. You don't necessarily need to be a developer to

[Flightgear-devel] UK, Concorde Simulator?

2003-12-17 Thread Al West
message out of the spam, but I'd prefer you use the email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Seasons Greetings, Al West Somerset, England. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.551 / Virus Database: 343 - Release

RE: Cockpit Hardware Building (was: Re: [Flightgear-devel]F-16cockpit)

2003-12-10 Thread Al West
If Curt doesn't mind providing the facility, I like the idea. It would be nice not to be dependant on the facilities offered by people outside of flightgear to an extent. Also I'm going to be asking a lot of dumb question about input in flightgear and I don't want it to be too public ;-)

RE: [Flightgear-devel] F-16 cockpit

2003-12-07 Thread Al West
Hi Manuel, I'm currently working on my own hardware that I'm going to connect to flightgear. It has a RS-232 serial port with USB option. Currently I'm busy writing the firmware and host software. http://cockpit.varxec.de/electronics/PIC_homecockpit_control.html Wow, what you have done

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Speed of jpg-httpd / Another FlightGear movie)

2003-11-21 Thread Al West
Forgive my ignorance on flightgear but wouldn't it be 'nice' to record a flight then play it back for the purpose of recording. In that case you'd be able to turn up all the graphics detail set a resolution suitable for PAL/NTSC DVD, VCD etc. Additions could be to have a director mode either in

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FAQ suggestion.

2003-11-11 Thread Al West
Have you tried using an autoresponder. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis L. Olson Sent: 11 November 2003 20:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Flightgear-devel] FAQ suggestion. I think we need to add something like the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Lee's TSR2

2003-10-17 Thread Al West
I tried to capture some video on my digital camera, but it wasn't worth sharing. I need to come up with a better way to make web videos of a live running application (under Linux.) :-) PC into a scan convertor or use TV out and record direct to DV tape then edit and compress afterwards.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Linux Hardware

2003-09-18 Thread Al West
Title: Message You might want to take a look at www.microchip.com who do the PIC microcontroller. They will usually send free samples. They provide a great IDE. Also they do a USB chip. I do a bit of PIC development myself - mostly LCD, MIDI and keyboard interfaces. I've been meaning to

[Flightgear-devel] OT: FlashROM writing

2003-09-11 Thread Al West
Sorry this is completely off topic - well not so much as you first think as these settop boxes are going to become part of my flightgear rig. Basically I'm trying to find out how to write data (GRUB and a linux kernel etc.) into the FlashROM on my NT-150 Settop box. They are basically a single

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Standardisation and cumulas

2003-09-02 Thread Al West
Paul, I'd be happy to take this on for you. You may wish to have a look at www.tsew.net (just something I knocked up in 30 minutes for myself). I code in raw HTML. Also know a bit about PHP and more about MySQL. Feel free to contact me via email. Cheers, Al -Original Message- From:

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Any Volunteers?

2003-08-27 Thread Al West
I've got a few machines free. Linux: P3-800Mhz 512MB Dual CPU 1GHz 512MB Windows 2000: 1GHz P3 512MB 1800+XP 512MB Windows XP: 1GHz P3 256MB Trouble is I don't have terragear built as yet for linux or windows and I have satellite internet so the uplink is only at a poor 28Kbps. But if I can be

RE: [Flightgear-devel] OT: US Stuff Was:Some European cities satelitephotos

2003-08-17 Thread Al West
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 13:46, David Megginson wrote: Curtis L. Olson writes: Yeah, we still have a lot of My governor can beat up your governor bumper stickers and t-shirts ... it would be a shame for them to go to waste. We obviously can't use them in MN any more.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] J-22 progress report

2003-08-16 Thread Al West
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Culp Sent: 16 August 2003 13:52 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] J-22 progress report Now I only have to make some animations for gears,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Small scenery comparison

2003-08-14 Thread Al West
Well I was hoping to create some scenery based on the 25m DEM files for the UK. I have access to the data but at the moment I'm struggling in compiling flightgear and terragear. Once I get that out of the way I hope to post some samples here. I'm also working on a Harrier model (probably GR7

[Flightgear-devel] FW: [Flightgear-users] Harrier Flight Model

2003-08-14 Thread Al West
Hi, I was the guy posting in the Users group about the Harrier Flight Model. Hopefully I can gain a little more info here and any hints or tips on building A/C models with 3DS for use with FG. Cheers, Al -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Building cvs fg - no sgPathSplit in SimGear

2003-08-14 Thread Al West
I'm looking (I did a grep -r -i pathsplit * in the simgear subdir. I did take a look at sg_path.cxx but the closest thing in there is dir() - nothing in there that will return a list of strings. Have I got an old version?: sg_path.cxx v1.1.1.1 2002/09/07 02:57:42 Cheers, Al -Original

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Is CVS Down?

2003-08-14 Thread Al West
Ah seems to be working fine now. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al West Sent: 12 August 2003 01:23 To: 'FlightGear developers discussions' Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Is CVS Down? Hi guys, Is the CVS service

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Building cvs fg - no sgPathSplit in SimGear

2003-08-14 Thread Al West
Thanks for the all the help guys I finally got a working version of flightgear running just fine. However that won't be the last of me if you subscribe to terragear lists too. I notice that there is a Golden Gate bridge pictured in the clouds3d_gg.jpg that Norman Vine posted about 2 weeks back -

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Building cvs fg - no sgPathSplit in SimGear

2003-08-14 Thread Al West
-devel] Building cvs fg - no sgPathSplit in SimGear Al West writes: I'm looking (I did a grep -r -i pathsplit * in the simgear subdir. I did take a look at sg_path.cxx but the closest thing in there is dir() - nothing in there that will return a list of strings. Have I got

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Building cvs fg - no sgPathSplit in SimGear

2003-08-14 Thread Al West
you subscribe to terragear lists too. I notice that there is a Golden Gate bridge pictured in the clouds3d_gg.jpg that Norman Vine posted about 2 weeks back - I look forward to when 3Dclouds arrives in the CVS. Is the GG Bridge a user added addition above the standard scenery or

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Glut

2003-08-14 Thread Al West
I also use A7V333 but running windows 2000 SP4. Sometimes flightgear will start with sound and other times it won't. There are no other apps running using the soundcard. However I remember having numerous problems getting a SB-Live 1024 working right with Windows XP - in the end I had to go

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 3d clouds error

2003-08-14 Thread Al West
Ouch - the nvidia drivers don't support 24bpp. Are you running X in 16bpp or 24bpp? I think 3d clouds need a 24bpp display. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.507 / Virus Database: 304 - Release Date:

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 3d clouds error

2003-08-14 Thread Al West
Or at least the windows 2000 drivers. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al West Sent: 14 August 2003 22:57 To: 'FlightGear developers discussions' Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] 3d clouds error Ouch - the nvidia drivers don't

[Flightgear-devel] Is CVS Down?

2003-08-12 Thread Al West
Hi guys, Is the CVS service at cvs.flightgear.org down at the moment. Being new to CVS how can I diagnose any problems I may get? i.e. if I was having problems browsing a website I'd first ping it and then try to make a connection on port 80. Is CVS taken down for regular maintainence? Is this