No, we never tried Wine but the team has already rejected this solution because it wants a native Linux software, not an emulation or a virtual machine, mainly for performances reasons.

It's done.

My flight simulation club is working on the development on an opensource flight simulator (Fly! Legacy) under GPL license. http://sourceforge.net/projects/flylegacy Currently, only a Windows version of this software is available and so, one or several people would be necessary (because the current developers are very busy at the time) to help us to convert this Windows application to a Linux application. The application is developed in C++ and is compiled with Visual Studio 2008. About the librairies included in the project, I don't know all because I'm not developer of the project but I can tell you that uses: _ OpenGL _ OpenAL _ FreeImage _ OPAL-ODE _ Glew _ PThread _ STLport (not sure) Could you help us ? Thank you for your cooperation.

There is no programming problem. Indeed, if we could find someone who would accept to do the conversion for us, that would be perfect.

The problem is that we have a lack of developers on the project and as the result, those who developed the project at the moment don't have the opportunity to convert the Windows application into a Linux one, because they are working on more important priorities (like the creation of a 1st aircraft). I heard that this task would be pretty fast to do (a couple of days), but for the moment, we don't know anybody who have the skills to work on this. Unfortunately, an emulation solution (Wine, even a virtual machine) was rejected by the developers, mainly for performances reasons.

My flight simulation club is working on the development on an opensource flight simulator (Fly! Legacy) under GPL license. http://sourceforge.net/projects/flylegacy/[^] Currently, only a Windows version of this software is available and so, one or several people would be necessary (because the current developers are very busy at the time) to help us to convert this Windows application to a Linux application. The application is developed in C++ and is compiled with Visual Studio 2008. About the librairies included in the project, I don't know all because I'm not developer of the project but I can tell you that uses: _ OpenGL _ OpenAL _ FreeImage _ OPAL-ODE _ Glew _ PThread _ STLport (not sure) Could you help us ? Thank you for your cooperation.

On behalf of the Fly.Simvol team, I have the huge pleasure to announce that after several years of development and hard work, the 1st public version of Fly! Legacy (0.3.3 alpha), the opensource flight simulator (written in C++ and using OpenGL) based on Fly! II, the Terminal Reality's flight simulator of the early 2000s, is now available for download on Fly.Simvol (http://fly.simvol.org/indexus.php). If you are interested, you can also download the source code of the project at this address: http://sourceforge.net/projects/flylegacy/ This software has been mainly developed by Chris Wallace, Jean Sabatier, Laurent Claudet, Luc Lion, Didier Rigault, Frank Dhont (other people also took part in this project) and it is currently in development stage (alpha version). The work was huge because the first step of the development consisted in reproducing a software which has the same behavior than the original simulator, and which used its databases. After that, came the second step which was to make the new simulator compatible with all the third party add-on developed throughout the years by the passionnate users. This makes it possible to use sceneries, aircraft and plugins available on the different websites. Thus, the core software is centered on the Cessna 172 (from TRI) which was set to work as well as possible. Other aircraft can be easily adapted and we hope that a strong cooperation from the community to help us in this task. Today, the software is operational, but the intial project evolved: the idea is now to make the software independant from Fly! II, in order to allow a majority of users to take part in this project. For this purpose, the migration to SQL databases was made possible. Besides, this 1st alpha version (mainly targetted for developers) has a limitation (which will be removed in future versions): currently, Fly! II is still needed (7-8 files), but we are working to remove those last dependencies. Nevertheless, all the developers are welcome to help us complete this complex task as soon as possible. It is therefore important to keep in mind that bugs may remain and that some features have not yet been developed. Those tempted by the project can help us using various skills: C++ development, 3D objects designing, user interface, and so on... If you are interested, then you can contact us or post a message on our forum (http://forum.simvol.org<

Hello, we are looking for people who will be able to help us voluntarily to develop in C++ an opensource flight simulator (called FlyLegacy) which will run under Windows, Linux and Mac OS. http://flylegacy.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/flylegacy/ Here are two screenshots showing the progress of the project: http://fly.simvol.org/images-forum/Cessna_Legacy_5s.jpg http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/8800/flylegacyl017bp.jpg If you are interested by the project, please contact jean-sabatier@wanadoo.fr or post a message on our forum on http://forum.simvol.org. Feel free to ask me questions if you want more details. Thank you for your attention.

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Hello, we are looking for people who will be able to help us voluntarily to develop in C++ an opensource flight simulator (called FlyLegacy) which will run under Windows, Linux and Mac OS. http://flylegacy.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/flylegacy/ Here are two screenshots showing the progress of the project: http://fly.simvol.org/images-forum/Cessna_Legacy_5s.jpg http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/8800/flylegacyl017bp.jpg If you are interested by the project, please contact jean-sabatier@wanadoo.fr or post a message on our forum on http://forum.simvol.org. Feel free to ask me questions if you want more details. Thank you for your attention.

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