Need testers for 737 systems simulator software

[capetonian]

Great software! Thanks! I plan to donate shortly. Question, would it be possible to have it start in a different mode than cold and dark in the future? Sometimes i am short on time and would like to jump in and fly right away. Maybe be able to save a set-up and choose on start-up or read current state of switches? Thanks,
Rob

Prosim does check the state of the switches although some switches do not seem to get recognized. I know aht this is an issue that Marty knows about and will tackle when the time comes. As far as realism in concerned this software hits the nail on the head... and also in the case of a ´quick´start. Maybe Marty will build it into the software, in the meanwhile you can do the following.

Create a flight and then chose ´save current position´in the web interface. Next time you start up your system start FS and make sure your engines are running, then start up Prosim737, set all your switches the way you want them, open a browser and choose the situation that you previously saved, before unpausing the sim make sure that you have hydraulic power otherwise you will find yourself plummeting straight down with no way to steer the aircraft.

As far as a donation is concerned don´t forget that Marty is writing this software in his own time and that he is using official Boeing books and specs to be able to model the 737 as closely as possible, those books cost a load of cash and Marty uses the donations to fund these books!

I might seem biased toward Prosim737 and I must confess that I am, very. It´s good, it´s realistic, it has a complex logic for fault replication and it´s free. There is currently nothing on the market that beets it for accuracy. Okay okay , . I´ll stop now )

[capetonian]

It was changed as Port 8080 didnt work on my PC The instructor station works fine on 8081

Okay, that is clear.
Can you check the following for me, if you go into the config menu, do you have a valid IP address and port number for SIOC? It's normally 127.0.0.1 8092 if you are running it on the same machine, otherwise just change the IP address.
If that works you should always at least see a message if you navigate to http://localhost:8080/sioc, if you have nothing configured then you should see:

// Generated SIOC config stub for ProSim737
// Make sure you configure the correct hardware inputs/outputs

If you see that, then it is all working fine, but you still need to define inputs and outputs. Open the Prosim Configuration panel and choose the tab switches, next to each switch you will probably see a drop down menu with the text : " Not connected" if you click on the drop-down arrow you will see another option, IOCP, choose this and a new field will appear next to your switch, fill in a number here that corresponds to the input on your Open cockpits card Fior my example I have used 300. Save the config.
Now point your browser again to the sioc link: http://localhost:8080/sioc
You should now see something like:

// Generated SIOC config stub for ProSim737
// Make sure you configure the correct hardware inputs/outputs

Var 0300, Link IOCARD_SW, Input 0 // Alt horn cutout Off


There you go, of course you must manually edit the 'Ínput x' to correspond with any input on your setup. Copy that whole list and save it as a text file.

Once you have that done, you can compile your script with SIOC (so that it is a .ssi file) and you're in business.

I hope that helps, if you have any questions just shout!

[metamarty]

Donations are helping while we are starting up the new prosim line of software. When I put the donations system online half a year ago prosim was meant to be only a systems simulator that was to be distributed freely. Plans have changed a little bit, but the good news is that prosim as it is today will remain free for non commercial use. However, modules will become available to complete the package so it will be a full 737 suite. These will be distributed as payware addon modules. Prices will be as low as we can keep them. Once this will generate some revenue, the donations can be swapped for software or payed back.

I am making every effort to get this as close to the real cockpit as I can. Bit since this has only been in development for a few months I cannot give a release date.

Here's a screenshot of todays testflight, note the split axis autopilot operation, which currently uses CWS for pitch and LNAV for lateral guidance.

[ANDYSMITH]

Hi Marty, I just tried to make a donation from your web site and when I enter the amount in the window I get a message below that reads "you have entered an invalid amount". If I can get your paypal email address I can send directly from paypal?
your thoughts....Andy

[metamarty]

Hi Marty, I just tried to make a donation from your web site and when I enter the amount in the window I get a message below that reads "you have entered an invalid amount". If I can get your paypal email address I can send directly from paypal?
your thoughts....Andy

The paypal address is marty@hinttech.com. This could be a localisation problem where paypal wants to see a comma instead of a dot for numbers, so "0.50" should be "0,50". You might want to try that.

[capetonian]

Looks good Marty,

I flew 18 approaches last night on KSFO 28R, single channel, dual channel, the flare and the approach are absolutly lovely .... I
'll post some screensohts this evening.

Andrew.

[fsaviator]

Marty,
I am at the point of looking at software to run my sim. I've been watching this thread closely and appreciate what you're providing to the community. I downloaded the newest version but it doesn't want to run. I'm running FS9, registered FSUIPC and I've updated my NET Framework to 4.

Here is the crashlog message:

5/19/2010 7:37:02 PM
Could not load file or assembly 'System.Xml.Linq, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
at ProSim737.Configuration.load()
at ProSim737.Form1..ctor()
at ProSim737.Program.Main()

To be up front though, I have not connected any hardware and I am not running any other software such as SIOC. I'm basically trying to take a look at ProSim.

I extracted and put the Prosim737 folder in my Program Files Directory.

Thanks for your time.

Warren

[metamarty]

Marty,
I am at the point of looking at software to run my sim. I've been watching this thread closely and appreciate what you're providing to the community. I downloaded the newest version but it doesn't want to run. I'm running FS9, registered FSUIPC and I've updated my NET Framework to 4.

Here is the crashlog message:

5/19/2010 7:37:02 PM
Could not load file or assembly 'System.Xml.Linq, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
at ProSim737.Configuration.load()
at ProSim737.Form1..ctor()
at ProSim737.Program.Main()

To be up front though, I have not connected any hardware and I am not running any other software such as SIOC. I'm basically trying to take a look at ProSim.

I extracted and put the Prosim737 folder in my Program Files Directory.

Thanks for your time.

Warren

I've had a report of this exact problem earlier. It indicates that the dot net runtime was not correctly installed. The "could not load file or assembly..." basically means that some dot net runtime stuff is missing. Prosim uses dot net runtime 3.5, but installing 4 should work in theory. Could you try reinstalling the dot net runtime?

[metamarty]

Looks good Marty,

I flew 18 approaches last night on KSFO 28R, single channel, dual channel, the flare and the approach are absolutly lovely .... I
'll post some screensohts this evening.

Andrew.

Looking forward to the screenshots. You can also try flying an ILS in CWS mode. It is pretty fun.

[ANDYSMITH]

yes it was the comma thing. all is well now.

thanks
Andy Smith (snj5pilot@yahoo.com)