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Announce: Flight Gear Version 0.57

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Curtis L. Olson

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Jan 21, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/21/99
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Flight Gear version 0.57 is now available.

The Flight Gear Flight Simulator project is a free, open-source,
multi-platform flight sim development project. Source code for the
entire project is available and licensed under the GPL.

For more information, please visit the Flight Gear web page at:

www.flightgear.org

New in Version 0.57:
* Converted to a simpler frame rate counting method.
* Fixed the AOA reading on the HUD.
* Removed gpc from the Lib section of distribution by request of the
gpc Author. The gpc license is unfortunately not compatible with
the GPL. I may look for an alternative library, or just require
that developers download this library separately.
* First slew of changes from the MacOS porting effort contributed by
"Robert Puyol" <pu...@abvent.fr>.
* Support for an arbitrary number of serial ports + additional serial port
output tweaks.
* Serial output tweaks to make things more robust and act more like a GPS.
* Portability enhancements for Borland, Solaris, and SGI.
* Some internal class renaming and reorganizations. fgFLIGHT becomes FGState.
fgCONTROLS becomes FGControls.
* Started work on an "external" flight model so the sim can be driven from
external input (serial port, network, file, etc.)
* Fixed a problem that creeped in with setting the initial startup altitude.
This could cause an unrecoverable bounce and you'd end up flipped on your
back. Should be fixed now.
* Sun now appears to grow in size as it gets very low in the horizon.
* Fixed a view frustum culling bug where the scene was not accurately culled
when your view was anything other than straight forward.

Curt.
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