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- Installation Notes for the Flight Unlimited Beta Patch vF2.01S
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- This patch contains following bug fixes and enhancements:
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- 1. New code for joystick hat calibration which should fix the spinning
- cockpit and views caused by improper hat calibration with Thrustmaster &
- Logitech Wingman joysticks.
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- 2. New code for joystick calibration which should fix joystick non-detection.
- and also joystick miscalibration.
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- 3. Throttle calibration bug. On several combinations of game card,
- machine and joystick, the joystick throttle calibration only
- gave you from %50 to max. This should be fixed.
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- 4. New code which traps and avoids the divide overflow error caused by
- old mouse drivers. Use MS Mouse driver 8.20a or higher.
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- 5. There are two fixes to the video code. The first caused Flight to
- not recognize certain video cards as being VESA 2.0 compliant.
- The second Kept the palette from being initialized correctly on
- certain video cards. Please note that the univbe driver supplied
- with Flight Unlimited will *not* work with the Matrox Millennium
- video card. If you chose to install univbe then you will need
- to either re-install and answer no when asked if you would like
- to install univbe, or start Flight by typing "flight +nounivbe"
- (minus the quotes, of course), then press enter.
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- 8. Starting Flight by typing "flight +nothrottle" (minus the quotes)
- at the command line or putting "nothrottle" on a blank line in your
- flite.cfg file kills the joystick throttle. If you don't
- want joystick throttle or if you're using 2 joysticks, one as main
- control, one as rudder, you won't get throttle changes.
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- 9. People having headset detection problems particularly of the
- virtual i/o eyeglasses should NOT run from windows 95. Also, if
- the system has problems detecting the virtual i/o you should
- add +vio at the command line or add "vio" to your flite.cfg. This
- prevents flight from trying to autodetect any other kind of headset
- which appears to cause problems on some machines.
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- 10. Total energy compensation has been added to the Grob's variometer.
- ( Thanks to Stig Oye of the Department of Fluid Mechanics at Technical
- University Denmark for his assistance.)
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- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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- Copy the included file fupat201.exe to the flight directory on your hard
- drive. Execute it by typing "fupat201.exe. (minus the quotes of course)
- then press enter. This will unpack 2 files. Next type "patch."
- This will unpack the actual patch files. Then type "go" and press enter
- to start the patch process. When you are asked if it is ok to overwrite
- any files answer yes.
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- The patch will now be installed and you can start Flight as you normally
- would. The new code will now be in effect.
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- OPERATION NOTES
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- If you still have problems calibrating your joystick please hold it in
- place for 1 second after you push it's button in each of the positions
- you are asked to move it to during the calibration procedure.
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- If you have a Wingman Extreme select Thrustmaster in the joystick calibration
- box. You will be asked to move your joystick hat to all 4 corners. Please
- move the hat slowly and make sure to move it all the way to the corners.
- CH joysticks use a different method of sending hat data and will calibrate
- automatically.
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- You should make sure that the throttle is not pushed all the way
- away from you when you start Flight. That can result in the throttle not
- being detected at all. Pull it all the way towards you, or center it
- before running Flight.
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