January 17, 200620 yr For those with realplayer, check this outhttp://tigert.1g.fi/video/gns.3gpApologies for the crappy cellphone quality and weird codec.(since someone will ask anyway, it's a Reality-xp.com GNS gauge, with IOCards supplying keyboard shortcuts to invoke the button presses, a PSOne LCD on my TV Out showing the gauge itself, and www.schaeffer-ag.de -engraved frontpanel of my own design. And some nasty soldering behind for the buttons)Now excuse me, but I need to go back pressing the funky buttons and watching them blinkenlights! WOOHOO! 8-)//T
January 17, 200620 yr Hey T - I really like what you got there! I have two friends who would kill to have such a setup .
January 18, 200620 yr Cool!Could you explain a bit more. How it realy works? Like, how do you connect your PSONE screen to your pc?? And how do you get only the gps image on that screen? I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, I am a bit new in this area.Greetings.
January 18, 200620 yr Author >Cool!>Could you explain a bit more. How it realy works? Like, how do>you connect your PSONE screen to your pc?? And how do you get>only the gps image on that screen? I'm sorry if this is a>stupid question, I am a bit new in this area.TV-out drives the screen. It has video in connection.After that it works just like any other monitor in Windows - it's just small (640x480 resolution at the moment).Now, I used FS Panel Studio to set the GPS gauge in its own window, so that the coordinates on top left corner are negative and the bottom right corner is off the window too - giving us just the screen in the popup. Make FS2004 in windowed mode, and drag the GPS to the small screen. I position the GPS monitor below the other screen, so I can position and resize it to show exactly the screen area.The buttons are just "your good old iocards" giving keyboard events which the RealityXP GNS listens to.//Tuomas
January 20, 200620 yr Hi Tuomas,Nice workHow is the quality of the screen ?Could you post a pict of the screen with better resolution to see how it look like ?I've tried to transform a old 7' from a car-LCD but the quality was so poor ... unable to read the texts ... BOB
January 20, 200620 yr Author It's not what you'd expect from a TFT monitor of course, one has to remember this is a low res TV screen. The native resolution is something like 320x240. Which is pretty much what the real GNS has too though. But I'm getting some mild flickering and bleeding on particularly the blue colour. Here is a photo:http://tigert.com/aviation/vatsim/cockpit-.../baron-gns3.jpgHowever, in practice it is very OK. I can read it fine, so while not perfect, it works great. No real issues when using it. For a 50 EUR screen it is awesome.//Tuomas
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