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FLYBY2 – An Open-Source Screensaver for Windows and FM Towns OS

5 points by app4soft 5y ago

app4soft 5y ago
Story started[0] week ago, on Jan 31, 2022 when old screensaver in a form of flightsimulator demo flights found "on a crusty old Windows 95 computer originally from Lockheed Martin" by «Lazy Game Reviews». On Feb 2, 2022 Soji Yamakawa[1], original developer of this screensaver & YSFlight flight simulator, commented[2] that he found source and now released it as open-source: > Someone found my screensaver left in a PC that once was used by Lockheed Martine, and posted on YouTube[3]. So, I excavated source code from my backups and set up build for Windows and FM TOWNS OS. > I made source code available from the following URL[4] > I never expected someone finds my screensaver from a quarter century ago. It was so amazing! > I didn't remember where I released it. But later I found that it was included in a CD-ROM bundled with a book I published back in 1996: Soji Yamakawa, "3D Screensaver SDK Saber", ASCII, 1996, ISBN4-7561-1403-2 > I think only Windows version screensaver was in this CD-ROM. So, I believe it is the first release for FM TOWNS. > It requires 486DX or faster (needs FPU), and it needs to be launched from Towns OS V2.1 L31 or newer because the executable is in .EXG format. > I have tested on Tsugaru[5,6] (an open-source FM TOWNS emulator - ed.) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30159583 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30159583 [1] http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/software/e.html http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/software/e.html [2] http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/main/e2022.html http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/main/e2022.html [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAQt33Gj3KY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAQt33Gj3KY [4] https://github.com/captainys/FLYBY2 https://github.com/captainys/FLYBY2 [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269460 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269460 [6] http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/FM/e.html http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/FM/e.html
- app4soft 5y ago
  N.B. YSFlight[0] is freeware & partially open-source[1] flight simulator. One of the cool features is that it could be used as screensaver Linux, macOS & Windows if launch it with a `-demoforever` flag. P.S. Here is free "YSFlight Handook"[2,3], where are a lot of YSFlight internals documented. [0] https://ysflight.org https://ysflight.org [1] https://github.com/captainys/public https://github.com/captainys/public [2] https://forum.ysfhq.com/viewtopic.php?t=8172&p=92286#p92286 https://forum.ysfhq.com/viewtopic.php?t=8172&p=92286#p92286 [3] https://ysflight-opensource.github.io/handbook/ysflight-installing.html#run-from-console https://ysflight-opensource.github.io/handbook/ysflight-inst...

5 points by app4soft 5y ago

Story started[0] week ago, on Jan 31, 2022 when old screensaver in a form of flightsimulator demo flights found "on a crusty old Windows 95 computer originally from Lockheed Martin" by «Lazy Game Reviews». On Feb 2, 2022 Soji Yamakawa[1], original developer of this screensaver & YSFlight flight simulator, commented[2] that he found source and now released it as open-source: > Someone found my screensaver left in a PC that once was used by Lockheed Martine, and posted on YouTube[3]. So, I excavated source code from my backups and set up build for Windows and FM TOWNS OS. > I made source code available from the following URL[4] > I never expected someone finds my screensaver from a quarter century ago. It was so amazing! > I didn't remember where I released it. But later I found that it was included in a CD-ROM bundled with a book I published back in 1996: Soji Yamakawa, "3D Screensaver SDK Saber", ASCII, 1996, ISBN4-7561-1403-2 > I think only Windows version screensaver was in this CD-ROM. So, I believe it is the first release for FM TOWNS. > It requires 486DX or faster (needs FPU), and it needs to be launched from Towns OS V2.1 L31 or newer because the executable is in .EXG format. > I have tested on Tsugaru[5,6] (an open-source FM TOWNS emulator - ed.) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30159583 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30159583 [1] http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/software/e.html http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/software/e.html [2] http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/main/e2022.html http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/main/e2022.html [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAQt33Gj3KY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAQt33Gj3KY [4] https://github.com/captainys/FLYBY2 https://github.com/captainys/FLYBY2 [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269460 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269460 [6] http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/FM/e.html http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/FM/e.html

app4soft 5y ago
N.B. YSFlight[0] is freeware & partially open-source[1] flight simulator. One of the cool features is that it could be used as screensaver Linux, macOS & Windows if launch it with a `-demoforever` flag. P.S. Here is free "YSFlight Handook"[2,3], where are a lot of YSFlight internals documented. [0] https://ysflight.org https://ysflight.org [1] https://github.com/captainys/public https://github.com/captainys/public [2] https://forum.ysfhq.com/viewtopic.php?t=8172&p=92286#p92286 https://forum.ysfhq.com/viewtopic.php?t=8172&p=92286#p92286 [3] https://ysflight-opensource.github.io/handbook/ysflight-installing.html#run-from-console https://ysflight-opensource.github.io/handbook/ysflight-inst...