Posted November 15, 2019 by bbosen
#Flight Simulator #LINUX #FlightSim #Flight sim
LINUX Air Combat's first official "Production Release" is now available, after more than four years of intense development and testing. In terms of features and technology, this is now the world's leading open-source combat flight simulator. During our four-year development period, we published numerous updates as new features were added and as bugs were fixed.
We expect this new "LAC R7.92" official release version to remain stable and unchanged for at least a year while we gather user input from the growing online player community.
The download archive available in itch.io includes full source code in "c++", accompanied by all associated image, texture, and sound file resources and a "makefile" according to well-established norms within the LINUX community. Certain free, well-known prerequisites are required as follows:
Prerequisites for running a compiled, binary version of LINUX AIR COMBAT
Additional Prerequisites for compiling your own version from the LINUX AIR COMBAT source code
If your LINUX system is typical, you will need to compile LINUX AIR COMBAT from the free source code (the well-organized source code makes this very easy, even for non-programmers). In addition to the prerequisites listed above, you will also need gcc (almost always present), and all of these tools and libraries, which are generally NOT preinstalled in most major LINUX desktop distributions: