raven

Hey folks, just created an account on the forum. I'm looking for the original dev of udpspeed, and info on it. Any help is greatly appreciated, see the post at Thanks in advance!

Hi, I'm new here, and recently got into IL2 1946, after 25 years, remembering how my dad got me into flying sims. It's been a blast. I came by udspeed: http://simhq.net/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2011230/all/New_UDPSpeed_Display_working_c.html I remember wanting something like that since forever! Thing is, nowadays in my machine (Steam deck & Linux), it doesn't print the gauges nicely, because of ddraw. Yet turns out there's a newer implementation for IL-2 BoX: https://dellywelly.itch.io/il-2-dials-client-windows The developer is symphatetic to add IL-2 1946 support, and we have the protocol docs shipped with the game in Devicelink.txt. It should be doable :). But maybe there's undocumented features, or mismatches with the protocol docs. The original developer seems to be OverDhill, based in this forum. http://dangerdogz.com/forums/profile/993-overdhill/ I see that he has been inactive, and I hope for the best for him. Tried to DM him, but I get a popup with "You are only allowed to send 0 messages per day. Please try again later". Does anybody know how to contact him? Could someone contact him, and ask him about his opinion on implementing udpspeed? Does udpspeed have many undocumented workarounds on the protocol? OverDhill, if you are reading this, would you be open in releasing the source code of udpspeed? It would greatly help on this efforts. Many thanks in advance! Raven