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Celestia 1.4.0 Released!

Submitted by suwalski on Sat, 2005-12-24 16:51. General
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Just in time for testing new video cards that magically appeared under people's Christmas trees, a new release of Celestia is sure to please.

Celestia is a cross-platform OpenGL space simulator. By using state-of-the-art OpenGL it provides an accurate, comprehensive, educational, and fun space simulation for astronomers and casual users alike.

Source and AutoPackage:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia

Celestia Screenshots:
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/gallery.html

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Orbiter-able Fs-able Flightgear-able?

Submitted by BrendaEM on Wed, 2005-12-28 14:04.

Woulnd't it be great if Celestia merged with Flightgear, or took on its flight-sim abilities.

I think that Celestia could be made to work like the Windows simulator: Orbiter. It could import textures and models, but the dlls couldn't come over.

I chatted up the Orbiter board, and they seemed well stuck in the Windows getto: dlls, and DirectX all the way. I think there was an OpenGL vote, recently, in which people voted to keep Orbiter DirectX-only, so, don't hold your breath waiting for an open source Orbiter.

I wrote the Nasa blue Marble team five times to obtain Blue-arble data for open source projects, but got no reply. I realize that I could get it from an Alaskan Server, but it's been chopped up already.

Whirlwind is Windows and .Net -Only. Why did the American taxpayer pay for a program to be created for one platform only? It supports a monopoly.

MS flightsim compatible planes and scenery objects could be imported into an Open Source simulator as well.

awesome! by Anonymous George

Thanks!

Submitted by suwalski on Wed, 2005-12-28 02:36.

Thanks! The packages for 1.3.2 in Ubuntu were very well done. I'm sure the packager will get to it soon.