I use this on FS98 and the original Combat Flight Simulator and it works fine. I mentioned FS98 in my original post and probably led some to believe that it won't run on the newer ones. I think this will be fun and I'd like to know what someone could do with this. I plan to eventually use an ini file so this is modifiable by a user. You'll also need to let me know which COM port you'd like to use. It only outputs pitch and bank to the BASIC stamp at this time, but I'll find my SDK docs and give you a list of exactly what we can pull out of FS and I'll output whatever you'd like to try. I'll email you directly within a few days. If there's an interest and an agreement to use it for non-commercial use only, I'll share.Ĭool. I just hate sitting on this for so long without letting someone benefit. The BASIC stamp code is definitely a gimmee and is really simple. It could be modified to include acceleration/g-force, flap location, engine speed, whatever.I'll gladly give away the DLL as it is now and I'll even modify it to a certain degree, but I don't want to share the DLL source code right now.

This DLL presently sends out 'KDPPBB' with PP and BB being 2-digit hex pitch and bank values at 2400 8N1 on COM2. This little board replaces all the other hardware and works great! Wow! Then I went a little further and digitized a pot input and compared with the pitch/bank required from FS98 and controlled I/O pins to drive the relays for the air cylinder control valves. I then wrote a little code for the stamp to display the hex values on the 7-segment LED readout and saw that it was working fine. I pulled up my old FS98 code and modified for serial out.

The stamp is so robust that I finished that in no time and began to realize the potential of these things.

I recently got the WAM kit from Radio Shack to build a light controller for church. Maybe one day I'll get a welder friend to help with the rest.Īnyway, on to the story. Being an ex-EE/ current developer, the software and electronics is as far as it got. I designed some cool circuitry with dual latches (pitch and bank), summing amps, and comparators to drive a pneumatically-controlled moving cockpit. I developed a DLL in 1999 to send the pitch and bank values from FS98 to the printer port. Anyone interested in tinkering with Microsoft Flight Simulator and BASIC stamps?

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