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Microsoft Flight Simulators - Programmers Interfaces

Ronald

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I'm mapping out the landscape how i'm going to able to interface with the internals of Microsoft flightsimulator

What are the programmers way-to-interface (exchange internal) data with Microsoft flightsimulator?
So far i've only found "the unofficial ways" in the form of Peter Downson's famous PFC.DLL, FSUIPC.DLL and WideFS
- http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html
- http://www.flightsimulatorcenter.com/ImagesNozoom/MANUALI/ME111/ME111336.PDF
- http://expotec.de/db_dat/WideFS.pdf

and the "official way" MSFS "SimConnect" SDK
- https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc526983.aspx

Questions:
A - Are there any other ways - for a programmer - to "peek and poke" data from and to Microsoft flightsimulator?
B - Are there any other persons then Pete Downson, who have created their own interfaces into MSFS?
 
I think there are a couple of others out there but I don't recall the names or developers offhand. I don't think they are supported. MS introduced simconnect as the official way to connect and, as I recall, FSUIPC uses it for FSX and later. The developer of AFX and Instant Scenery has his own way to Interface with FS for some functions but not to generally read or write variables.
 
There are other ways but you have to be skilled at using Cheat Engine and ASM.
 
Thanks everyone for your answers.

There are other ways but you have to be skilled at using Cheat Engine and ASM.
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Thanks for the "Cheat Engine" link, that is a whole new way of tackling this challenge Naruto-kun :-)
 
Ronald said:
I'm mapping out the landscape how i'm going to able to interface with the internals of Microsoft flightsimulator

What are the programmers way-to-interface (exchange internal) data with Microsoft flightsimulator?
So far i've only found "the unofficial ways" in the form of Peter Downson's famous PFC.DLL, FSUIPC.DLL and WideFS
- http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html
- http://www.flightsimulatorcenter.com/ImagesNozoom/MANUALI/ME111/ME111336.PDF
- http://expotec.de/db_dat/WideFS.pdf

and the "official way" MSFS "SimConnect" SDK
- https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc526983.aspx

Questions:
A - Are there any other ways - for a programmer - to "peek and poke" data from and to Microsoft flightsimulator?
B - Are there any other persons then Pete Downson, who have created their own interfaces into MSFS?
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Thank you to take it on this side ! Happy landings from GER and "Holm und Rippenbruch"
 
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