Hardware Requirements:
There is nothing advanced about vPAR, either the QuadRadar or the Transponder.
I used four computers during development and testing of vPAR, both Intel
and AMD processors, and the weakest machine tested was a P133 with
32 MB of RAM. Decompressed, the vPAR QuadRadar, the largest of the
two programs, requires less than 2 MB of free space. No fancy
video cards are required, either, since OpenGL and DirectDraw are not
involved in the old-style plotting commands used.
Operating Systems:
The only operating system that vPAR was designed for is Windows.
The original version of the PAR program, as well as the early stages of
development for vPAR, was developed and tested in Windows ME and then later
in Windows XP. The P133 test machine I mentioned above ran the vPAR Transponder
on Windows 98 and a P166 with Windows 98 ran the vPAR QuadRadar. There are
no plans to build this program for support of any other operating system.
There are no extra DLL's, or "runtime libraries", required as both
vPAR programs were written to include all required function calls. This
made the programs larger than they really needed to be, but they really
aren't large to begin with, as mentioned above.
Flight Simulation Software:
The only simulation software this program was designed for is Microsoft's
Flight Simulator. As mentioned above, FS98 should still be supported,
and this program was tested successfully with FS2000, FS2002, and FS2004.
The Transponder requires FSUIPC to be installed in the "MODULES" folder
in the Flight Simulator's main folder. See below for versions supported.
FSUIPC Versions:
The original program was written and tested with FSUIPC 2.8. The
vPAR Transponder, which is the only part of vPAR that accesses Flight Simulator's
state data through FSUIPC, should be equally compatible with FS98 and later.
The required state data in use include Latitude, Longitude, Altitude, Heading
and Magnetic Variation. To operate with FSUIPC 3 and later, which
is required for use of the vPAR Transponder with FS004, you'll need a registry
key. Use the following:
Program Name: |
vPAR_X.exe |
Key: |
ELDV W3GG 40IT |
Sector File
Section: |
Pattern:
(1=spot 10, 2=spot 20, and so forth) |
[FIXES] |
;-----*--1---------2-*-------3----- PLUNC N042.07.50.440 W088.03.36.340 |
[VOR] |
;---*----1--*------2-------*-3---------4- ORD 113.000 N041.59.15.607 W087.54.17.635 |
[NDB] |
;-----*--1----*----2---------*---------4--- ERMIN 332.000 N041.43.08.415 W087.50.11.198 |
[AIRPORT] |
;----*---1---*-----2--------*3---------4---* KORD 120.750 N041.58.46.542 W087.54.16.071 B |
[RUNWAY] |
;---*---*1--*---*--2---------3-*-------4------*--5---------6-*-------7----- 04L 22R 040 220 N041.58.53.997 W087.54.50.079 N041.59.51.169 W087.53.46.912 |
[ARTCC], [ARTCC
LOW] & [ARTCC HIGH] |
;--------1-*-------2------*--3---------4-*-------5------*--6---------7 CHI_CTR N040.00.00.000 W086.09.00.000 N040.41.00.000 W084.40.00.000 |
[SID] & [STAR] |
;--------1---------2------*--3---------4-*-------5------*--6---------7*--------8 CATALINA FIVE CATALINA LAX LAX SXC SXC |
[LOW AIRWAY] &
[HIGH AIRWAY] |
;--------1---------2------*--3---------4-*-------5------*--6---------7-*-------8 J84-94-100-128 OBK OBK DBQ DBQ |
[GEO] |
;--------1-----*---2---------3*--------4-----*---5---------6*---- N040.00.00.000 W124.00.00.000 N039.45.00.000 W123.50.00.000 WHITE |