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- Bywater Software
- Release Notice
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- Space Flight Simulator
- version 1.01
- (PC-Compatible Binaries)
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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".
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- 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.
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- Requirements: This implementation of the Space Flight Simulator
- requires an IBM PC or compatible microcomputer,
- with Hercules, EGA, or VGA graphics. The optional
- use of a pointer device (mouse) is supported. A
- fast cpu and a math coprocessor will also speed up
- and smooth out the overall display. The program
- requires one disk drive that has at least 700k
- of space available.
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- Documentation: Complete documentation for this program is in the
- file "sfs.ro", which is in a format compatible
- with the "ro" text formatter (also supplied).
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- Source Code: This release of the Space Flight Simulator will
- include source code for the complete Space Flight
- Simulator, and its underlying User Interface (ui).
- The source code can be compiled on the PC-compatible
- microcomputers, the AT&T Unix PC, and on Unix
- Platforms which have implemented the X Windows
- system, version 11 (tested on DecStation 2100 and
- 3100).
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- Communications: Bywater Software
- P. O. Box 4023
- Duke Station
- Durham, NC 27707
- USA
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- email: tcamp@teer3.acpub.duke.edu
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