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Bywater Software
Release Notice
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".
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.
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.
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).
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).
Communications: Bywater Software
P. O. Box 4023
Duke Station
Durham, NC 27707
USA
email: tcamp@teer3.acpub.duke.edu