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GaugeBook is free software for FSX (Service Pack 2 needed) to display gauges on a netbook. It is based on Java and can therefore be used on Linux and Windows. If you just want to use it, grab one of the downloads below, if you want to learn more about the software or how to participate in the development, navigate through our site.
Right now GaugeBook is only developed for FSX because it provides the SimConnect interface. An FS2004 is not yet planned because of the missing interface. As of yesterday I own a copy of the FS2004 and first tests with FSUIPC were succesful. There will be a FS2004 / FSUIPC - version but if it will have all features of the FSX / SimConnect one, I can't yet tell..
FS2004 to be supported in the next version
The next version of GaugeBook (0.7.6 beta) will be the first to support FS2004, although not all features of the FSX / SimConnect version are going to be implemented. The interface used is FSUIPC. FS2004 users will have to launch a new tool I called GaugeHook on their Flight Sim machine, which connects to FSUIPC and sets up a small HTTP server that the GaugeBookFSUIPC uses to get the data from. HTTP is used just in the first versions. For better performance and less network load, this will be changed to a UDP protocol later on.
