Name of file: Fupat24.exe Description: Software patch for Flight Unlimited (MS-DOS version) Updates to version 2.4s Installation Notes for the Flight Unlimited Patch vF2.4S This patch contains following bug fixes and enhancements: 1. Updated Sound Blaster drivers that allow Flight Unlimited to recognize a wider range of Sound Blaster compatible sound cards. 2. New code which eliminates graphical trails caused by mouse movement on the screen. 3. FBO travel bug fixed. On some machines, if you didn't fly a plane while in a terrain area you couldn't travel back to your previous FBO. 4. New code for joystick hat calibration which should fix the spinning cockpit and views caused by improper hat calibration with Thrustmaster & Logitech Wingman joysticks. 5. New code for joystick calibration which should fix joystick non-detection and also joystick miscalibration. 6. 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. 7. New code which traps and avoids the divide overflow error caused by old mouse drivers. We also recommend using a MS Mouse driver version 8.20a or higher. 8. 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. 9. Starting Flight by typing "flight +nothrottle" (minus the quotes) at the command line or putting "nothrottle" on a blank line in you 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. 10. 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. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS 1. Make sure patch diskette is in the A: drive of your computer 2. At a dos prompt, switch to the flight directory on your hard drive. The dos command for this would be: cd\flight 3. Copy the file fupat24.exe into the flight directory. The dos command for this would be: copy a:\fupat24.exe 4. Type "fupat24.exe" (minus the quotes) 5. Type "patch" (minus the quotes) 6. Type "go" (minus the quotes) The patch is now installed and you can start Flight as you normally would. OPERATION NOTES It is a good idea after installing the patch to recalibrate the joystick. An easy way to do this is to press alt-j from the FBO. This will take you into the joystick calibration routine. 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. 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. 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. Copyright 1996 Looking Glass Technologies