A Freeware Scenery Assembler for Microsoft® Flight Simulator™
Note from Adam Szofran: Special thanks to Tom Allensworth and Jeff Babb for making AVSIM the new home of the FSASM page. Even though I am no longer maintaining FSASM and related addons, I believe there are still a few people in the sim community who need access to this page. Thanks to AVSIM for providing this service.
Commercial licenses are still required for those who want to incorporate FS6IPC.DLL into commercial or shareware products. See Commercial Use of FS6IPC.DLL for more information.
- Download FSASM
- Download FSASM add-on software
- Download BETA software (including information on programming FS6IPC.DLL)
- Download older FSASM 5.x files (For a limited time only)
What is FSASM?
FSASM is a powerful scenery compiler for use with Microsoft® Flight Simulator™ version 6.0 for Windows 95 (FS6) and version 5.1 for DOS (FS5.1). FSASM includes a large library of configurable objects you can use to design static and dynamic scenery of high quality. FSASM is extensively documented and is suitable for use by both novice scenery designers and advanced programmers.
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What can I do with FSASM?
FSASM makes it easy to create simple scenery with just a few objects or highly detailed scenery covering vast geographic areas. FSASM allows you to include all of the objects and features you see in normal scenery. But with FSASM you can do so much more. Here are just a few of the custom objects you can place in your scenery with FSASM:
- Approach lighting systems including PAPI, AT-VASIS and T-VASIS.
- Pilot controlled lighting of airport lighting and arbitrary objects.
- Light houses and sailboats.
- Spinning radar and rotating airport beacons.
- ILS, runway, and taxiway hold marks.
- Radio and TV towers.
- Transmission line towers.
- Animated windsocks that indicate the current wind direction, speed, and turbulance.
- Control towers, hangars, buildings, and bridges.
FSASM also allows you to:
- Easily lay out road and river systems that span great distances.
- Create dynamic scenery.
- Accurately place synthetic scenery tiles.
- Add items to the Airports Menu.
- Create elevated, landable areas.
- Set local time zones.
- Design taxiway and runway signs.
- Sit in the shade under textured trees.
Download FSASM
Click below to download FSASM and related files.
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Description |
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1,431k |
The latest version of FSASM. Requires Windows 95 to run
and generates scenery for FS5.1, FS6 (FS95), and FS6.1 (FS98)*. |
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10k |
Describes what's new in FSASM 6.0.0. |
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56k |
FSASM Scenery Object Library for FS95 and FS98. |
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55k |
Flight Data Recorder for FS95 and FS98. |
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36k |
Interprocess Communication module for FS95 and FS98*. Used
by GPS 1.x, NAV, CoPilot, SquawkBox etc. |
Information on using FS6IPC.DLL in your applications is available from the beta software download area.
Click here for available non-English language translations of FSASM documentation.
Commercial Use of FS6IPC.DLL
If you plan to incorporate FS6IPC.DLL into a commercial product (including shareware), you must obtain a commercial license from me before you publish your product. For licensing details contact me at fsasm@avsim.com. Please be sure to include some obvious reference to licensing in the subject line of your message so it won't get lost in the shuffle. Serious inquiries only, please.
Thanks,
Adam Szofran
fsasm@avsim.com
Other Sites of Interest to the Scenery Designer
For more information on designing scenery for Flight Simulator, check out these great sites!
- AVSIM Online
- Abacus Publishing (home of Airport & Scenery Designer and CoPilot)
- BglNav: A Freeware Flight Planner
- Comox Valley Flight Sim Stopover
- MicroWINGS - The International Association For Aerospace Simulations
- OzPack: Australia's own scenery design team
- Pro Controller and Squawk Box
Credits
Authors
Adam Szofran
FSASM.EXE, macros, objects
John Blackie
Macros, objects, tutorials, FSLANG
Tom Monnone
Objects, tutorials, User's Guide
Contributors
Maurizio M. Gavioli, et al.
FS5STRUC editor and contributors
John Trindle
Basis for the synthetic scenery tile algorithm
Basil Copeland
Terrain.tut
How to Contact the Authors
Note: Due to the large volume of mail, we simply can't reply to all messages in a timely manner. For faster answers, try directing your questions to the Internet Flight-Sim mailing list or the FSFORUM or SIMGAMES forums on Compuserve. For information on how to subscribe to the Internet Flight-Sim mailing list, send a message to mailserv@grove.iup.edu with "help" as the only text in the body of the message.
You may contact the authors of FSASM via the email addresses shown below:
Adam Szofran
Internet: fsasm@avsim.comCompuserve: >INTERNET:fsasm@avsim.com
John Blackie
Internet: 100032.532@compuserve.comCompuserve: 100032,532
Tom Monnone
Internet: 100033.2150@compuserve.comCompuserve: 100033,2150
Legal Stuff
Disclaimer
FSASM comes with no warranty or claim of fitness or reliability. FSASM and its files are distributed AS IS, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. The authors of FSASM have absolutely no affiliation whatsoever with Microsoft Corporation. Neither the authors of FSASM, nor Microsoft Corporation shall be held liable for any loss of data, down time, loss of revenue or any other direct or indirect damage or claims caused by FSASM or FILES CREATED BY FSASM.
Redistribution Terms
FSASM and ANY SCENERY FILES CREATED using FSASM are FREEWARE, and:
- MAY NOT BE sold.
- MAY NOT BE uploaded to, nor archived in, BBSs or Internet sites which charge file download fees.
- MAY NOT BE uploaded to, nor archived in, BBSs or Internet sites which are partly or wholly beneficially owned or operated by a commercial enterprise which is engaged in the sale of computer hardware or software.
- MAY NOT BE redistributed with computer hardware or software for which money is charged.
- MAY NOT BE redistributed by a commercial publisher in any form or under any pretext. This prohibition includes but is not limited to floppy disks and CD-ROMs distributed with magazines or books.
- MAY NOT BE redistributed on floppy disk, CD-ROM, nor in any other printed or electronic storage form for which money is charged, nor as part of a package for which money is charged. This prohibition includes but is not limited to any form of redistribution for which any type of materials or handling fees are charged.
- MAY NOT BE disassembled, decompiled, decomposed, decoded, nor reverse engineered.
Subject to the exclusions listed above, the FSASM archive may be uploaded to BBSs or Internet sites and otherwise redistributed on a FREEWARE basis as long as the original FSASM compressed archive and its contents are not modified in any way.
THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS to the redistribution terms stated above without the express written permission of the authors.
Copyright
The components of FSASM carry one or more of the following copyrights:
Copyright © 1994-1997 by Adam Szofran. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 1994-1997 by John Blackie. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 1994-1997 by Tom Monnone. All rights reserved.
Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Flight Simulator is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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