(C) by Fabrizio Giudici, 1994.
All rights reserved.


Hello people!
FGFLY is an experimental flight simulator I've been writing for two years.
Finally the time has come to release the first demo!

This is just a short file YOU MUST ABSOLUTELY READ BEFORE RUNNING FGFLY.



* FGFLY is a P.D. program, and this is just a demo. The program is really
  full of bugs, AND MAY CAUSE YOUR MACHINE TO CRASH!! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.
  I suggest to run FGFLY from a non-compressed partition, and with disk
  caching disabled. Otherwise I experienced that if the computer hangs,
  the disk FAT may be not updated, so you have to waste some time to
  run disk diagnostics after rebooting.

  Sometimes FGFLY crashes and leave the PC Timer badly programmed (i.e.
  it goes 16 times faster than normal). In this case, you should reset
  your computer.

  SUMMING UP, KEEP IN MIND THAT YOU MAY HAVE TO RESET YOUR COMPUTER AFTER
  RUNNING FGFLY! 

* I myself verified that the executables in this distribution are virus-free.
  However I suggest you to perform a supplementary check before running them
  (you know how viruses are ...).

* Before running FGFLY, look at the FGFLY.FAQ file which contains many
  useful info about this simulator. Read carefully FLY.MAN that is the
  manual.

* I'm going to distribute incomplete and buggy versions of FGFLY because
  I think that a feedback from potential users may be a strong help for
  me in further development steps. HOWEVER PRESENTLY I SIMPLY CANNOT MANAGE
  LARGE AMOUNTS OF SUGGESTIONS/BUG REPORTS, SO PLEASE DON'T SEND THEM NOW!
  For this reason I didn't include my e-mail address in these files, even
  if I guess some of you could manage in finding it.

  Please be patient. I'm studying to build an automatic e-mail processor
  to collect suggestions/reports via e-mail. When it will be ready, I'll
  put the proper instructions to use it in the next FGFLY versions.

  If you want, you may send me a postcard depicting your country with
  your brief opinion about FGFLY. My address is:

  Fabrizio Giudici
  Via Nizza 6/13 
  16145 Genoa
  ITALY

  I will appreciate it very much.
  If you want, you may also send a contribution to the same address.
  I will appreciate it VERY VERY much.
  But I guess you'll think the current demo is not worth a single dollar...

* Since this is my very first distribution to the Public Domain, I guess
  something goes wrong (e.g. some file is missing etc...). In this case
  I'll release a fixed .zip (fgfly01b.zip) by the next week.

* My idea is to distribute a new version every 2-3 weeks. I'll post a notice
  to comp.sys.pc.games.flight-sim and to comp.sys.pc.demos (perhaps I 
  mispelled them, but you should understand) each time a new version is ready.

* I think that most of the bugs will be fixed just after next 
  Christmas Holidays, and a "playable" version should appear by the end of
  January 1995.





