Re: Ada and Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS)

[weisek@source.asset.com (Kevin Weise)]

In article <3j7f5p$l5r@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>,
David Weller <dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote:{
>>
>Actually, there's a company partnered with MaK Technologies that
>sells Ada DIS bindings.  Darned if I remember who they are at the
>moment.
>
This may be Coleman Research Corporation out of Orlando, FL.  I know
they have an Ada/DIS product, and are marketing it; but I'm darned if I
can remember how to contact them.  (CRC people here in Huntsville, AL
may be some help.)

>For those of you that are REAL gluttons for punishment, there's an
>interesting application that you can poke around with at the Naval
>Postgraduate School.  It's in C/C++, but I'm sure a reasonable
>motivated person could translate them if they were interested.  The
>site is ftp://taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil/pub/npsnet_mosaic.html
>
>Enjoy!
>
There's also supposed to be a *free* Ada/DIS implementation available
from AdaIC, sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/pub/AdaIC/tools/atip/adis, or
something like that.  It was done on SGI; BUT ...
a.  the Version 1.1 tar.gz file gunzips okay, but has a tar error, and
b.  the documentation is GROSSLY incomplete.  I have talked to both
    AdaIC and J.F. Taylor (sp?) about this, and they seem to be at odds about
    the documentation.  J.F. Taylor said they would give AdaIC a new
    copy of the documentation around the middle of January, AdaIC swears
    they haven't seen.  Maybe someone else can help them resolve their
    differences; I tried & failed.
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