Orbiter - Space Flight Simulator

[impaktor]

Noz posted that this has been open sourced now (MIT License, by the looks of it):
https://github.com/mschweiger/orbiter

[impaktor]

Hacker News discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27982671

[Thaeris]

Neat. Just a matter of time before someone switches up DirectX for OGL etc., and a Linux port should happen.

:D

[sturnclaw]

Looking at the code, it's not going to be nearly that simple... lots of files and APIs using DWORD et al and #include <windows.h> everywhere. All of the tools use old .rc -based UIs, and it's very much a windows-developed app. Still a pretty cool project to poke around in and see how they implemented their stuff; some parts like lua MFD handling might make its way into Pioneer in a slightly reimagined state.