Multiplayer  1st person flightsimulation software for win9x / winXP / win2000 / vista

Red Baron 3D flight simulation game from Sierra; it allows up to 50 people to fly / fight simultaneously

What works

rb3d server:

- everything works. ( tested from suse 10.1 upto 11.1 )

rb3d player:

- installs

- plays  ( single play and multi player )

(tested and used from suse 10.1 upto 11.0 )

glide emulator (emulating a 3dfx voodoo graphics card ) for much better graphics works well, too.

more information on playing Red Baron 3d and running a Red baron server :

http://www.xs4all.nl/~rensg/rb3dindex.html

What does not

In fact, this is a generic problem with wine :

joystick buttons are not caught and discarded by a button => keyboard stroke mapping program, such as autohotkey. wine passes the button presses through to the program anyway.

(allthough the keyboard strokes get passed through, authotkey works very well)

in RB3d this is irritating, because several buttons are hardcoded into the program.

button nr 3 in particular, drops a bomb. so you kill yourself, whenever you hit that one, standing on the runway......

A windows utility for this is available, Auto hotkey.

 download the Red Baron 3d specific configuration here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rensg/rb3d/downloads/RB3d-AutoHotkey.ahk

What was not tested
nothing.

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