1 A very special thanks is due to the following people and groups.
3 Note: as hard as we've tried, it is impossible to perfectly maintain
4 this file. If you are aware of someone who you think should be
5 included here, PLEASE let me know. Projects like this are made
6 possible only by the help and hard work of others. I want to properly
7 credit everyone who has contributed to this project.
10 Raul Alonzo <amil@las.es>
11 Mr. Alonzo is the author of Ssystem and provided his kind permission
12 for using the moon texture. I also used parts of his code as a template
13 when adding the texture. Ssystem Homepage can be found at:
14 http://www1.las.es/~amil/ssystem
17 Paul Bleisch <pbleisch@acm.org>
18 Paul redid the "debug" system so that it would be much more flexible,
19 so it could be easily disabled for production system, and so that
20 messages for certain subsystems could be selectively enabled.
21 Also contributed a first stab at a config file/command line parsing
25 Bernie Bright <bbright@c031.aone.net.au>
26 Many C++ style, usage, and implementation improvements.
27 STL portability, tons o' stuff. :-)
28 Currently trying to get a BeOS port together but life keeps getting
32 Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com>
33 Gene has done a lot of work getting FG to compile with the MSVC++
34 compiler. Also, he has pushed, proded, and bugged me endlessly to
35 do my stuff right. (I mean that in a good way, because sometimes
36 when the little nudge in the right direction isn't working, I need
37 a good hard shove.) :-)
40 John Check <j4strngs@rockfish.net>
45 Vector 2D, 3D, 4D and Matrix 3D and 4D inlined C++ classes. (Based on
46 Graphics Gems IV ed. Paul S. Heckbert)
47 http://www.animats.com/simpleppp/ftp/public_html/topics/developers.html
50 Bruce Finney <bfinney@gte.net>
54 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler <zlib@gzip.org>
55 Authors of the zlib library. Used for on-the-fly compression and
56 decompression routines.
57 http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
60 Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
61 Changes and updates for compiling on FreeBSD
64 Habibie <habibie@MailandNews.com>
65 RedHat package building changes for SimGear.
68 Bruce Jackson of NASA <e.b.jackson@larc.nasa.gov>
69 Developed the LaRCsim code under funding by NASA which we use to provide
70 the flight model. Bruce has patiently answered my many, many questions.
71 http://dcb.larc.nasa.gov/www/DCBStaff/ebj/ebj.html
74 Richard Kaszeta <bofh@me.umn.edu>
75 Contributed screen buffer to ppm screen shot routine.
76 Rich has also helped in the early development of the Flight Gear "altitude
77 hold autopilot module" by teaching Curt Olson the basics of Control Theory
78 and helping him code and debug early versions. Curt's "Boss" Bob Hain
79 also contributed <bob@me.umn.edu>. Further details available at:
80 http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/fgfs/Docs/Autopilot/AltitudeHold/AltitudeHold.html
81 Rich's Homepage: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
84 Tom Knienieder <tom@knienieder.com>
85 Ported Steve's Audio library first to OpenBSD and IRIX and
86 after that also to Win32
89 David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
90 SimGear property manager/registry
93 Curt Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
94 Curt is responsible for overall project and source code management.
95 He has his hands in many of the areas.
98 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@games.no>
99 Incorporated the Gnu automake/autoconf system (with libtool).
100 This should streamline and standardize the build process for all
101 Unix-like platforms. It should have little effect on IDE type
102 environments since the don't use the Unix make system.
105 Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se>
106 Mr. Schlyter provided Durk Talsma with all the information
107 he needed to write the astro code. Mr. S. is also willing
108 to answer astro-related questions whenever one needs to.
109 http://welcome.to/pausch
112 Durk Talsma <d.talsma@chello.nl>
113 Accurate Sun, Moon, and Planets.
114 Sun changes color based on position in sky.
115 Moon has correct phase and blends well into the sky.
116 Planets are correctly positioned and have proper magnitude.
117 Help with time functions, gui, and other misc stuff.
118 http://people.a2000.nl/dtals
121 Mark Vallevand <Mark.Vallevand@UNISYS.com>
122 Contributed some METAR parsing code.
123 Contributed some win32 screen printing routines.
126 Gary R. Van Sickle <tiberius@braemarinc.com>
127 Contributed some initial GameGLUT support and other fixes.
128 Has done some interesting preliminary work on a binary file format
129 http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/fgfs.htm
131 Has set up a 'Cygwin Tips' site that has been very helpful to many
132 people in getting a Cygwin Unix-on-Windows build environment set up
133 so they can build FG effectively.
134 http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/cygwin.htm
137 Norman Vine <nhv@yahoo.com>
138 Provided more than uncountable URL's to the "FlightGear Community".
139 Many performance optimizations throughout the code.
140 Lots of windoze related contributions.
141 Contributed wgs84 distance and course routines.
142 Contributed a great circle route autopilot mode based on wgs84 routines.
145 Ed Williams <Ed_Williams@compuserve.com>
146 Contributed magnetic variation code (impliments Nima WMM 2000)
147 We've also borrowed from Ed's wonderful aviation formulary at various
149 http://www.best.com/~williams/index.html
152 Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw@equi4.com>
153 Author of MetaKit - a portable, embeddible database with a portable
154 data file format. This software is not GPL'd but the author is kindly
155 allowing us to bundle MetaKit with our code. MetaKit has a liberal
156 X/MIT-style license. Please see the following URL for more info:
157 http://www.equi4.com/metakit
160 WoodSoup Project http://www.woodsoup.org
161 Provided computing resources and services so that the Flight Gear
162 project could have real home. This includes, web services,
163 ftp services, shell accounts, email lists, dns services, etc.
166 Robert Allan Zeh <raz@cmg.FCNBD.COM>
167 Helped me tremendously in figuring out the Cygnus win32 compiler and
168 how to link with .dll's. With out him the first runable win32
169 version of FG would have been impossible.
176 THIS DOCUMENT WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN BY
177 Curt L. Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
180 05 Jul 2000 Removed non-SimGear entries (CLO)
182 08 Mar 2000 CONTENTS RESEARCHED AND UPDATED by
183 Oliver Delise <delise@mail.isis.de>