What's new?
Linuxtrack 0.99.6
Freetrack Client for Wine
Freetrack client was added to Wine bridge, allowing games using this interface to utilize Linuxtrack.
Linuxtrack 0.99.3
Versioning change
I decided to change the versioning scheme - instead of 1.0 beta3 to 0.99.3. Hopefuly it will make
packaging a little bit easier.
New MacOSX package
After a long pause, caused by deep changes throughout the code and followed by a sudden departure
of my good old Mac Mini, I've created new MacOSX package.
Please note, that I had to discontinue
support for MacOSX 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard, along with PowerPC platform - the new packages will
be targetet towards MacOSX 10.6 Snow Leopard and up.
Improved 3D preview
The 3D preview model has been reworked - the cockpit should look much better now and also the
sky sphere should add a bit to the impression. Also the new visualization is much less resource
hungry and should run well on low power devices (Atom powered netbooks, ...).
XPlane plugin cooperates with Pilotview
XPlane plugin now cooperates with Sandy Barbour's Pilotview plugin. Please reinstall the XPlane
plugin to get this new functionality and don't forget to enable external data usage in Pilotview.
Please note, that you need Pilotview 1.70 to have this feature available.
Linuxtrack 1.0 Beta 2
Overhauled the pose computing
When using three point models, you can tweak them to minimize the unwanted viewpoint movement when
panning.
Wine bridge fix
Fixed problems in the wine bridge that prevented Condor soaring simulator and Falcon AF
to respond to the tracking. If you experience such a problem, please reinstall the linuxtrack wine plugin.
Linuxtrack 1.0 Beta 1
This Linuxtrack release is the beginning of the Linuxtrack 1.0 Beta run.
Linuxtrack requires wine now
If you use any device from NP (TrackIR, SmartNav4), you have to have wine installed in order to get
a firmware needed to run the device.
When the firmware is extracted, you might find TrackIR icon on your desktop - it is perfectly safe
to remove it.
Technical info: wine is being used to unpack windows TrackIR driver and extract the firmware from it.
The extraction takes place in a temporary wine prefix, that is removed when done.
64bit XPlane plugin
Linuxtrack now contains 64bit enabled XPlane plugin - it should work in both XPlane 9 and XPlane 10
32 and 64 bit.
Linuxtrack supports Wine games now
By installing wine plugin, you enable linuxtrack usage in TrackIR enabled windows games.
For now, 32bit games are supported only, but 64bit will be worked on soon.
Linuxtrack preferences directory changed
Linuxtrack now stores its preferences in your home directory, under .config/linuxtrack directory.
That includes TrackIR firmware too...
Mickey, the virtual mouse
Linuxtrack contains a virtual mouse application called mickey. It allows you to use headtracking
instead of, or along with conventional mouse. For the moment, mickey works on linux only, but MacOS
version is planned soon.