FS9 A/C in FSX

CrashGordon wrote:

I can get the models to function. I can get the penels and sounds to function, but FSX does not appear to like many FS9 gauges. Anyone having success with FS9 gauges? What needs to be done to get FSX to use them?

At least I got some firepower in FSX.

Another issue is FSX now contains code, to stop any “gau” gauge based on the FS98 standard being used in FSX. This means that many of your favourite free add-ons from the past will no longer work. This again has other implications. Many developers have developed their own special coding systems based on the FS98 standard to enable them to do special things within FS all of which are now useless. We here at RCS Panels are amongst them. So none of our products, and those of many other developers can be used with FSX. This is not a simple problem to solve and for months now we have been working on writing new code to overcome this situation. This is not a long term problem for us because we can and will recode the packages and do new releases, but it will involve many hundreds of hours work. The difficulty is, many developers of things we know and love, have now moved out of FS, so their products will be lost forever. Personally I can see no reason for this other than another cynical move to get rid of the FREEWARE and the small PAYWARE developers. Remember the days when the FS community was a large friendly and helpful group of like minded people ? Well dream on, those days have gone.

Currently, neither of the above two problems effect XML gauges, which is good for those that use them, but no serious developer uses the XML format because it is “Open Code” and can be stolen by anybody without difficulty.