diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS index a6331f3ed..ae45a1e99 100644 --- a/AUTHORS +++ b/AUTHORS @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Flight Gear is a group project and has many contributors. I have attempted to make a complete list of people in the ``Thanks'' file located in the top level directory of this file. -My name is Curt Olson . I am the primary organizer +My name is Curt Olson . I am the primary organizer of this project. I maintain the official source code and run the FG web site. diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index 60549be51..d60c31a97 100644 --- a/COPYING +++ b/COPYING @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA + 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. - Copyright (C) 19yy + Copyright (C) This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode: - Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy name of author + Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c' for details. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c68609834..1ad7cd0b0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,85 @@ -New in 0.9.5-pre1 -* July 15, 2004 +New in 0.9.8 +* December 20, 2004 + +* Added an encoder and transponder to the available avionics modules. + +* Updates to the AI traffic manager. +* Updates to the submodel system. This allows things like contrails, + payload dropping, projectile firing, and aircraft carrier landings. +* Added some controls for aircraft carrier operations. +* Updated to sync with latest JSBSim developments. +* YAsim adds support for contra-rotating propeller pairs as well as + crude models for ITT, Oil Temp and Oil Pressure in the jet turbine + engine model. +* Instruments, avionics, and subsystems are now configurable per + aircraft. You can assemble the correct componets available for each + particular aircraft. +* Updates to the wet compass to make it behave much more like a real + wet compass including various errors and motion effects. +* Make display list usage optional since these can be a net + performance loss on some older or low memory platforms. +* Make sound inaudible until after the scenery is loaded. + +* Move radio stack and avionics code from cockpit library to + instrumentation library. +* Added several digital filters to the autopilot: exponential, dobule + exponential, moving average, and noise spike. These are available + to aircraft designers via the autopilot config file. + +* Fix a crash that could occur when the joystick config specified more + buttons or axes than the physical hardware provided. +* Fixes to make FlightGear work with 16bpp visual depth. + +* Various FreeBSD fixes. +* Various MSVC fixes. +* Various Mac OS X fixes. +* gcc 2.95 and 4.0 fixes. + +* Updated aircraft: 737, A-10, AN-225, B-52, BAC-TSR2, Concorde, + Spitfire, BO-105 Helicopter, F-15 (updated flight control system), + Fokker 50, Fokker 100, Seahawk made carrier capable (working + arresting hook), + +* New aircraft: Cessna Citation-II (wip), Beech 1900D, DHC-2 Beaver + (on floats) + +* Updated KAP140 autopilot instrument (used in default C172.) + +* Updated Nimitz model (aircraft carrier), updated radio tower models, + added Oracle head quarters to bay area scenery, added Dumbarton + bridge at the south end of the SFO bay, added a model of Alcatraz, + +New in 0.9.6 +* October 12, 2004 + +* Added some initial support for "submodels" which can be used to + impliment things like contrails, flares, tracers, etc. +* Make real world weather fetching a bit more robust and network friendly. +* Ensure the entire world is initially loaded before initializing the + flight dynamics (avoids wildly varying frame rates at a time when + the FDM might be trying to do various initialization steps that + might benefit from consistent and fast frame rates.) +* Other various (and minor) code cleanups, tweaks, and fixes. +* Fixed ATIS voice file. +* Updated aircraft: A320, Bo-105, Comper Swift, Concorde, F16, + Fokker-50, Fokker-100, Hunter, MD11, PC7, Spitfire, adjust + C172 cockpit sound levels, and Sgs-233. +* Updated joystick configs: CH pro yoke usb, Cyborg Evo, Thrustmaster FCS. +* Fix a bug in the nasal fuel tank management code. +* Return Canadian ILS's to nav data. +* Cleaned up some of the 3d models around the bay area. +* Add support for display list based rendering which yields + substantial performance gains for many systems. +* Synced with latest JSBSim code. +* Fixed a reference point bug in YASim. +* Revived the hi-res (tiled) screen shot code so you can again produce + insanely and arbitrarily large resolution screen shots. +* Beefed up the tile pager so it can more sensibly handle insanely + rapid motion. + + +New in 0.9.5 +* July 29, 2004 * New AIModel based air traffic subsystem (Durk Talsma) * Updates to the AIModel subsystem. diff --git a/README b/README index 783d5fc5d..d7fd5cab1 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ separate distribution. Please take a look at the "Thanks" file for a list of people who have contributed to this project. If you have contributed something but don't find your name in this file. Please send a polite reminder to -curt@flightgear.org +http://www.flightgear.org/~curt For a summary of changes/additions by version see the "NEWS" file. diff --git a/Thanks b/Thanks index bfc3111a6..29be2f9bc 100644 --- a/Thanks +++ b/Thanks @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ Alexei Novikov Contributed a first draft of a scenery creation howto. -Curt Olson +Curt Olson Curt is responsible for overall project and source code management. He has his hands in many of the areas, but is primarily responsible for the scenery subsystem, as well as much of the infrastructure in @@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN BY -Curt L. Olson +Curt L. Olson THE CONTENTS WERE LASTLY RESEARCHED AND UPDATED MARCH, 8 2000 diff --git a/preferences.xml b/preferences.xml index 101355e4b..138b4f096 100644 --- a/preferences.xml +++ b/preferences.xml @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ Started September 2000 by David Megginson, david@megginson.com - true + false