This software is free. Airport Simulator has been designed for a B&W Mac as well as a colour Mac.
If you feel I've been working hard, please send me a contribution, so that I can keep up the (good?) work. I'm not asking for much.
Version 1.1
As usual, some bugs were removed. Thanks to the e-mail feedback, some things were corrected and some new things were added:
• You can now click on the flight windows to change the flight info, without having to select the "Change flight info..." menu item.
• You now don't need to enter the flight ID's in capital letters (eg: wb255=WB255)
• A sound is played when two planes crash.
• Clicking on the flight windows should not (I hope) make the application quit.
• The planes are drawn in different colours (patterns if in B&W); red if a plane that is arriving; green if it is departing. I haven't tested if the colours show up well since I (still) have a B&W Mac. But they should...
• Delayed aircrafts cannot be cancelled, although one could think of terrorism, etc.
• There is a new option in the "Preferences" dialog. If it is "on", the program will try to keep AT LEAST 6 planes in each flight list, so that there is more activity.
• I haven't set up a feature that would enable speeding up the airport's clock, and therefore its speed, mainly because it's not that simple. I'd have to think of a new strategy in calculating the time. Anyway, the above option should keep you working...
Version 1.0
If memory runs too low and causes the program to crash or unexpectedly quit, you should be able to solve the problem by increasing the memory value in the Get Info window concerning the application, which is set to 512k. This SHOULD NOT happen; if it does, please send me a notification, as well as your Mac configuration (kind, RAM, processor, system version, etc.), and what you were doing in the program when it ended (creating a new flight; finishing editing...)
Airport Simulator has been tested under systems from 6.0.3 up to 7.1 on an SE/30 and a PowerMac 8000.
I would appreciate your comment on how the program works in your Mac. Either if it does or not, it is important for me to evaluate the behaviour of my programs with different Mac configurations.
Any bug, suggestion, remark can be sent to:
Miguel Frias
R. Artilharia Um, 46-4-Esq.
1070 Lisboa
PORTUGAL
or by e-mail, on Internet (quite eagered):
mac@pobox.com
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