2 Dec
2010
2 Dec
'10
10:10 p.m.
Replying to myself here. I got an email from Geert and he allowed me to
forward it to the list.
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Hi Pontus,
We were pointed to the mailing list and I found your message...
The DC-10 Sim was moved from Houston to Oslo in 2004. Installation and
reconstruction took considerable time. Me and my coworker joined end of
2007. Two out of three old PDPs have been replaced by newer.
See http://www.xs4all.nl/~geerol/FLG-talk-75dpi.pdf
Last half year we have (step by step) interfaced the Sim to MSFS 2004
for visual only. The original Night Vision System has never worked
again. The third PDP-11 receives the position information from the core
Simulator ran by the other two machines. The 3rd PDP got a DELUA
ethernet card and I've written a program that receives the data from
CPU-A and kicks it onto the ethernet as UDP Broadcasts.
The conversion software runs at a PC with Unix and receives the
broadcasts and converts runway oriented X, Y and Z into Lat, Lon and
AGL, using a table with all known runways. It also counts overflows in
24 bit X and Y and maps to 32 bit. This drops the limit of NVS: 86 NM in
X and Y are current max. They flew LAX-SFO: close (+- 45 NM distance) to
SFO visual orientation hopped to SFO. MS FS2004 runs with FSUIPC
licensed (23 Euro) and a LUA program that sets position, lights etc. The
conversion program on Unix connects to this LUA module.
If you are a flightsimmer Lillestrom, Norway is worth the trip!!
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2010-11-30 09:12, Pontus Pihlgren skrev:
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 03:45:45PM -0800, Gene Buckle
wrote:
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Jason T wrote:
No idea. I suspect it's close to the upload date of the video.
It's a shame they don't have the motion base active.
This is from the Norwegian Cooperative Nordic Simulator Center(NSC).
They aquired the flight sim in 2007 (or so) and have been working on
restoring it. It's _awesome_ that they have gotten this far. Imagine
getting all that hardware going! It is three PDP-11 cooperating!
I found the Zip-drive somewhat anachronistic and amusing.
Read more here:
http://www.dc10.no/
and here:
http://www.toomuchfs.com/2mfs/showdoc.php?dsn=493
I'm not affiliated, but I want to take a trip to norway now :D
/P
On Mon,
Nov 29, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Gene Buckle<geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-DpcvY4aBk
>
Any idea when the video was taken? Obviously fairly recently,
given
the LCD panels, etc.