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History
Version 2.0:
- The simulator has been released as Universal Binary to support both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
- The Mount Pleasant field 1.1 scenery has been released.
- The Reeds Landing September 1.0 scenery has been released.
- The Agusta A109 K2 1.1 helicopter has been released.
- The Blue bubble 1.0 helicopter has been released.
- The Dauphin 3.1 helicopter has been released.
- The Dauphin police 1.2 helicopter has been released.
- The Eco 7 1.0 helicopter has been released.
- The Green bubble 1.0 helicopter has been released.
- The Hughes 3.1 helicopter has been released.
- The Raptor 3.1 helicopter has been released.
- The Raptor blue 3.1 helicopter has been released.
- The Raptor yellow 3.1 helicopter has been released.
- The Robinson R22 1.1 helicopter has been released.
- The Walkera 36 1.0 helicopter has been released.
Version 1.9:
- The support of game input devices with a 16 bit resolution has been added.
- The graphical interface has been improved.
Version 1.8:
- A bug has been corrected in the loading of the size of the simulation window.
- The Mount Pleasant field 1.0 scenery has been released.
- The Robinson R22 1.0 helicopter has been released.
Version 1.7:
- Minor bugs have been corrected.
Version 1.6:
- The support of game input devices has been improved.
Version 1.5:
- A bug has been corrected in the sensitivity of the analog main rotor throttle and pitch function.
Version 1.4:
- A bug has been corrected in the loading of previously saved game input device settings.
- The real time simulation has been improved to be independent from the speed of the rendering.
- The sceneries can contain multiple animated objects.
- The helicopters can contain multiple animated objects.
- All sceneries have been updated to support the new format.
- All helicopters have been updated to support the new format.
- The Agusta A109 K2 1.0 helicopter has been released.
- The Dauphin police 1.1 helicopter has been released.
Version 1.3:
- The Mammendorf 1.0 scenery has been released.
- The Stadtpark 1.0 scenery has been released.
- The Raptor blue 2.1 helicopter has been released.
- The Raptor yellow 2.1 helicopter has been released.
- The management of sceneries removed from the Sceneries folder has been improved.
- The management of helicopters removed from the Helicopters folder has been improved.
- A help tag displaying the characteristics of the loaded scenery has been added on the scenery 3D view.
- A help tag displaying the characteristics of the loaded helicopter has been added on the helicopter 3D view.
Version 1.2:
- A quick start guide has been added on the website.
- A list of known problems has been added on the website.
- The paths to the scenery and the helicopter currently loaded are relative paths.
- Only sceneries and helicopters located in the Sceneries and in the Helicopters folders can be loaded.
- Some messages are displayed as warnings in a Warning window to keep an history of the errors.
Version 1.1:
- A copy/paste problem has been corrected.
- A timer problem has been corrected.
Version 1.0:
- The first release.
- Many parts of the simulator have been rewritten, mainly the content and the organization of the configuration files.
Version 1.0b12:
- The behavior of the helicopters has been improved.
- The weather has been improved.
- The PPF files have been improved.
- The skies library has been updated.
- The helicopters library has been updated.
- The documentation has been updated.
Version 1.0b11:
- The 3D engine has been improved.
- The simulator is more configurable thanks to sky PPF files: sky properties can be modified with a plain text editor.
Version 1.0b10:
- A full recompilation has been made to be compatible with Panther.
- The support of game input devices has been corrected.
- The response curve of the analog input devices is editable.
- The weather is configurable.
- The display is configurable.
- The simulator is more configurable.
- The first official version (v1.0) will be released within a few days.
Version 1.0b9:
- A first recompilation has been made to be compatible with Panther.
- The support of game input devices has problems under Panther (while it works correctly under Jaguar).
- A link to a temporary non official forum allows users to share ideas, problems, solutions and help each others.
- The weather configuration is in progress.
- This is still a beta version with known bug resolution and improvements in progress.
Version 1.0b8:
- The support of game input devices has been improved.
- The sound can be turned on or off.
- The Displays preference pane can be opened to modify the resolution and the colors depth.
- The weather configuration is in progress.
- This is still a beta version with known bug resolution and improvements in progress.
Version 1.0b7:
- The support of game input devices has been improved.
- A sound bug has been corrected.
- The gyroscope can be set in normal lock mode or in heading lock mode.
- The pilot height and sight are configurable.
- The weather configuration is in progress.
- This is still a beta version with known bug resolution and improvements in progress.
Version 1.0b6:
- Major improvements have been made in the support of game input devices (keyboard, joysticks, gamepads).
- The keyboard is used as radio-transmitter by default (default keys are "ZQDXOKM." keys on AZERTY keyboards and "WADXOK;," on QWERTY keyboards) but you can also use a digital gamepad, a dual analog gamepad, a fake radio-transmitter or even a real radio-transmitter.
- Analog sticks are more configurable.
- The gyroscope configuration is in progress.
- The pilot characteristics are in progress.
- The weather configuration is in progress.
- This is still a beta version with known bug resolution and improvements in progress.
Version 1.0b5:
- A full recompilation has been made to be compatible with Jaguar.
- The 3D engine has been improved.
- The Vertol draft helicopter has been added in the library of draft helicopters.
- The documentation teaching how to build your own grounds has been written.
- The documentation teaching how to build your own skies has been written.
- The documentation teaching how to build your own helicopters has been written.
- The documentation teaching how to build your own transmitters has been written.
Version 1.0b4:
- The code has been improved to enhance some calculations.
- An engine sound file (WAV file) has been added to each helicopter and is now necessary to fly them.
- The engine sound volume decreases with the distance between the helicopter and the pilot.
- The engine sound has a realistic Doppler effect when the helicopter approaches, passes and goes away.
- The Dauphin, Hugues and Raptor helicopters have been updated in the helicopters library.
- The Sunset sky has been added in the skies library.
- Several draft helicopters are downloadable from the helicopters library so you can build ready to use ones.
- The application is compatible with Extended Software Updater available at AlphaMacSoftware's website.
Version 1.0b3:
- The behavior of the helicopter has been a bit improved.
- A bug in the Window menu has been corrected; now a full screen mode and a windowed mode are provided.
- The File menu allows you to load the ground, the sky, the helicopter and the transmitter of your choice in their respective folders.
- A more beautiful Hugues helicopter is provided by default.
- A bug in the default keys mapping has been corrected.
- The collision detection with the ground has been improved.
- The simulation reinitializes when the helicopter crashes.
Version 1.0b2:
- The simulator is more configurable thanks to 3DMF and PPF files: ground properties, helicopter properties and keyboard properties can be modified with a plain text editor (a documentation will be provided later, but the comments in the PPF files should help for the moment).
- A bug has been corrected in the management of the number of frames per second (NUMBER_OF_FRAMES_PER_SECOND variable in the Transmitter.PPF file).
Version 1.0b1:
- The first release.
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