Gimme a flight sim!

Hi there,

With OpenAL being ported and many games being ported I want more and more a flight simulator on OS4.

Is it still something difficult to do? How far are we from such port?

Here are a few list of them:
Palomino
FlightGear
Fictional Air Combat

Maybe there are other too. Feel free to add more titles.

@Elwood

Some days ago i checked FlightGear, and sadly, but last version want B00st libraryes version 1.37.0 or more, but we have on aos4 only 1.33.1 . I already ask SSolie (who make b00st for aos4), to port latest versions of b00st (it also needs for build HeroesMight&Magic 3), but for now nothing.

I also download old versions of FlightGear (0.7 and 0.8), they not want BOOST, but they (as well as latest one) want PLIB library (http://plib.sourceforge.net/ , portable game library).

Dunno about others, maybe possible to port.

Also about 0.5-1 year ago i trying to port Gl-117, and while games more or less works, it crashes all the time on loading of levels. I have contacted with author, and he try to help me, but, after 1 or 2 weeks we can't fix it, and i drop it out. But still, with every new release of SDK i trying to recompile that game (in hope that is problem in std++ lib and alt). For now i found on HunoPPC site, that he also trying to port it, and have the same problem as i am before (crashing on level loading), dunno can he fix that or not. Let's hope that yes :) Game more or less "ok", but of course not fast. With everything off, 640x480 it give about 15-20fps on my peg2 with 1ghz of cpu.

EDIT: checked Palomino sources : it have data/shaders directory, in which many "glsl" files. That mean that game use shader language, which MiniGL do not have.

EDIT2: Fictional Air Combat looks pretty easy for brief look. Makefile are nice, only GL/GLU and SDL. Imho that one very possible and should be pretty easy to port (not at home, can't try).

@kas1e

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For PLIB, I have some code in my recycling bin. I had a brief go at porting it ages ago, and it can display stuff (no audio though, or joystick support0. However, PLIB is rather archaic and I had other things to do so, I never finished it off.

I should also add that the reliability and performance of FlightGear "inspired" me to buy Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX). FSX works well and is a polished product; FlightGear leaves much to be desired.**

Hans

** I tried FlightGear years ago, and don't know what its current state is.

I second this, os4 needs a decent flight sim !!

@Hans

Ok maybe someone can finish your port. Plib is often used. It would help a lot.

@kas1e

gl117 seems nice. I hope HunoPPC can find something.

A search for plib on happy penguin returned 20 result, not all that many, but who knows, some of those games might be good.

@spotUP

20 is a lot for our small market

@Elwood

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Well, there were a few downloads of the source code from my site, so hopefully at least one of those was by someone who will finish it off.

Hans