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- Bywater Software
- Release Notice
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- Space Flight Simulator
- version 1.01
- (Source Code)
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- Bywater Software is pleased to announce the public availability
- of its Space Flight Simulator in its first complete release,
- version 1.01. This software is copyright (c) 1991, Ted A.
- Campbell, and is released under the terms of an agreement specified
- in the file "sfs.ro" and in all source code file headers.
-
- Description: The Space Flight Simulator offers a graphics-based,
- real-time, animated simulation of orbital flight.
- Users can develop simulations by specifying a complete
- range of orbital parameters, and can develop simulations
- for all of the planets of the solar system and for some
- other celestial bodies. A particularly full map is
- given of the earth, which can be viewed as it would
- appear from the orbiting spacecraft, as a ground-track
- map, or as a "distant perspective" in which the earth
- (or another orbital focus) and the orbital track can
- be seen together.
-
- Implementation: Current implementations of the Space Flight Simulator
- for which source code is included are the following:
- (a) IBM PC and compatibles, utilizing the Microsoft
- QuickC compiler and requiring Hercules, EGA, or
- VGA graphics; (b) the AT&T Unix PC with a primary
- implementation for the TAM subsystem, and a rather
- poorer implementation for the MGR windowing system;
- (c) Unix-based computers utilizing the X Windows
- system, version 11 (tested on DecStation 2100 and
- 3100).
-
- Further Code: Compilation of this code requires the Bywater
- graphical User Interface (ui), which is not included
- in this archive.
-
- Documentation: Complete documentation for this program is in the
- file "sfs.ro", which is in a format compatible
- with the "ro" text formatter (also available). Chapter
- four contains complete instructions for compiling
- the program, shorter instructions (for existing
- implementations) follow this notice.
-
- Communications: Bywater Software
- P. O. Box 4023
- Duke Station
- Durham, NC 27707
- USA
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- email: tcamp@hercules.acpub.duke.edu
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- Quick Build Instructions for Existing Implementations:
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- (a) Build the User Interface (ui) using the build scripts
- supplied with it. This will create an include directory
- for header files and a lib directory for object modules
- of the User Interface.
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- (b) Change to the directory where SFS sourcecode is located:
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- Unix: cd sfs/sfs
- MSDOS: cd sfs\sfs
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- (c) Execute the build script for SFS:
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- Unix: sh buildsfs.sh
- MSDOS: buildsfs
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- On Unix systems, the user will be prompted for a number
- corresponding to the particular system to be implemented.
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