diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index d60c31a97..60549be51 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) + Copyright (C) 19yy 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) year name of author + Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy 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 b95dcd4bd..776d96cd4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,179 @@ +New in 0.8.0 +* September 7, 2002 + +* The world is now populated with random ground objects with + appropriate type and density for the local ground cover type + (buildings, water towers, farm houses, silos, cows, trees, etc.) +* Many (most?) ground textures updated for a much nicer, more coherent, + more realistic overall look and feel. +* Added a java client library for FlightGear. +* Added some external scripting examples (python.) +* Implemented a Bendix/King KT 70 transponder. +* Implemented a Bendix/King KR 87 adf. +* Added support for 3d instrument panels inside 3d cockpits. +* Added support for animation of 3d models tied to internal properties. +* New/updated aircraft include: Cessna 172, Piper J3 Cub, DC-3, A4 + Skyhawk, Cessna 310, 747, 1903 Wright Flyer (non-linear with stall + modeled, based on wind tunnel data.) +* Convert the magic carpet into a UFO, complete with sound effects and + a 3d model (based on real world data of course.) :-) +* Environment manager overhaul +* Support for a base wind speed with gusts. +* Support for a base wind direction with variation. +* Support for more dynamically reconfigurable cloud layers. Cloud + layers are no longer hard coded. + +* Updates and additions to the FAQ +* Improvements to the sound effects module. +* Autopilot fixes to allow it to work much better on large airliners. +* Added a generic interface for running the flight dynamics model as a + separate process communicating via a network connection. +* Synced with the latest JSBSim code. +* Synced with the latest UIUCmodel code. +* Many fixes and updates to the YASim FDM (fixed flap drag issue, new + tail wheel lock, lots of solver fixes, and fixes to other internal + stuff.) +* Added support for menus defined in an xml file. +* Make the help system start more robustly/quickly in Win32 +* Added support for detecting the name of a joystick and using the + appropriate default joystick config file. +* Overhauled the remote/network property interface. +* Added a --show-aircraft option to dump out a list of all the + available aircraft you can select with the --aircraft=NAME option. +* Added a --random-wind command line option. +* --wind= option can now contain ranges, + i.e. --wind=min_dir:max_dir@min_speed:max_speed; the system will + automatically vary the wind within these ranges. +* A "physical" crash (i.e. too-hard impact with the ground) causes the + sim to freeze. You can then reset the sim to the starting state + with the menu->reset option. + +* Support in the scenery tile cache for maintaining tiles in the cache + relative to several view points that could be *very* far apart. +* Brake makes the magic carpet fly backwards. +* Many clean ups, fixes, and improvements with the tile pager. Memory free + is now done incrementally and spread out through multiple frames to hide it. +* Modernized the autoconf/make scripts. +* Cleaned up old cruft from the build system. +* Default to using FGEnvironment +* Removed support for efence (in favor of valgrind.) +* Bumped minimum plib version required up to 1.4.2, however the latest + cvs (and hopefully release) works much better. +* Added valgrind debugging config files/scripts. +* Weeded out many warnings/errors flagged by valgrind. +* Overhauled the FGSubsystem class. +* Fixed reporting of winds, cloudbase and altimeter setting. +* FGSteam converted to a proper FGSubsystem. +* Fix fog on 3dfx cards. +* Added internal support for turning each tank on/off individually. +* Added support for a fuel selector switch. +* Fixes to builtin property browser. +* Fixed several math overflow problems with time elapsed calculations + that had crept in. These would cause some things to stop updating + (like portions of the instrument panel, and radio station frequency + matching.) +* Updates to the network OpenGC interface. + +* Irix fixes. +* Mac OS X fixes. +* MSVC fixes. +* IA-64 w/ Intel compiler fixes. + +* automake/conf script enhancemnts and fixes. +* Updated the UIUCModel code. +* Removed some dos line endings that crept in. +* Spelling fixes. +* Removed some depricated code related to the old view management system. +* Fix a problem with VOR station lookups where we wouldn't always find + the closest station of a given frequency. +* Changed the default Nav radio frequencies to be more appropriate for SFO. +* Retrimmed the C172 +* Added seats and other interior stuff to the J3 Cub, and retrimmed. Also + fixed wing incidence in the 3d visual model. +* Fixed C310u3a-3d. 3d cockpit instruments can now be seen. +* Fixes to the DC-3 such as tank location; other surface and wheel position + adjustments. Increase effectiveness of rudder, vstab, and hstab. +* Updated some of the preconfigured joystick files. +* Updated man pages +* Fixed problem with pressure/altitude getting botched up after a reset +* Use a nicer helvetica font for the menus. +* Various fixes to the internal pui property browser. +* Fixed a typo in the scenery file loader that could cause a crash on + some platforms. +* More joystick configuration defaults. (Saitek Cyborg Gold 3D USB, + non FF sidewinder precision 2 usb) +* More texture tweaks. +* Additional fixes and panel work for the J3 Cub. + + +New in 0.7.10 +* April 20, 2002 + +* Much work on drawing and animating 3d aircraft models for things like the + chase and tower views. Propellers spin, control surfaces move, gear + retracts, etc. +* Overhauled mouse handling code and make it user configurable. +* Added a new environment (as in weather) subsystem. +* Added a new logging module +* Aded a new ATC subsystem. +* Virtual 3d Cessna 172 cockpit (work in progress) but many things are + animated and working. +* Virtual 3d Cessna 310 cockpit. +* Instrument panel background can now be a set of tiled textures so we can + achieve *much* higher resolution. + +* Major property manager overhaul. +* Major view code overhaul. All views are now configurable via config files. +* Major overhaul of the sound manager, it is now much more + configurable with many sound effect improvements. +* Seperate XML I/O opertions into a separate header. +* Impliment a standard FGSubsystem interface for module consistency. +* Add waypoint dialog now shows entire current waypoint list in a scroll box. +* Elevator trim position now shown on the HUD. +* Use an LED font for radios (and added infrastructer/support for + additional fonts.) +* Continued work on developing a generalized network interface to an external + flight dynamics model running as a separate process on the same or different + machine. +* Initial glideslope and climb rate can be specified from the command line. +* Fixes and improvements to make ground trimming more robust. +* Many JSBSim updates and improvements, JSBSim now exports all it's + interesting internal state via the property manager. +* Many updates to UIUCsim including support for non-linear models, flaps. +* Move tower view location when teleporting to a new airport. +* Created a new /devices subtree in the property manager to display + current device status. + +* Many YASim updates and bug fixes, autogen contact points for + collision detection, support for full engine startup procedure, + minimal support for magnetos, support skid objects (non-rolling gear + objects), reduce idle power a bit, export gear compression amount to + the property tree, include wind when computing airspeed, + +* Fixes to the property picker/browser. +* Fixes and updates to the configure script. +* Several potential memory abuse bugs detected (valgrind) and fixed (Melchior) +* Fix an instrument panel text bug ... an integer overflow could prevent + the text from displaying if the panel was turned off for more than 37.8 + minutes. +* Fixed a segfault when trying to audibly ident a nav station. Changes in + the sound manager code broke some assumptions. +* Fixed a bug (another int overflow) which could trick the event + manager into thinking the next time to run the events is *way* in + the future. +* Various performance optimizations. +* More work on saving/restoring flights +* Of all the ILS stations of the specified frequency, pick the one the most + directly points at us. +* Various restructures in the scenery loading code in preparation for + more flexible runway lighting support. +* Fixes/improvements to the scenery/line interesection code. + +* Various IRIX fixes. +* Various MSVC fixes. +* Various compiler warning messages fixed. + + New in 0.7.9 (final) * February 16, 2002