FLYBY2 – An Open-Source Screensaver for Windows and FM Towns OS

Story started[0] week ago, on Jan 31, 2022 when old screensaver in a form of flightsimulator demo flights found "on a crusty old Windows 95 computer originally from Lockheed Martin" by «Lazy Game Reviews».

On Feb 2, 2022 Soji Yamakawa[1], original developer of this screensaver & YSFlight flight simulator, commented[2] that he found source and now released it as open-source:

> Someone found my screensaver left in a PC that once was used by Lockheed Martine, and posted on YouTube[3]. So, I excavated source code from my backups and set up build for Windows and FM TOWNS OS.

> I made source code available from the following URL[4]

> I never expected someone finds my screensaver from a quarter century ago. It was so amazing!

> I didn't remember where I released it. But later I found that it was included in a CD-ROM bundled with a book I published back in 1996:

    Soji Yamakawa, "3D Screensaver SDK Saber", ASCII, 1996, ISBN4-7561-1403-2

> I think only Windows version screensaver was in this CD-ROM. So, I believe it is the first release for FM TOWNS.

> It requires 486DX or faster (needs FPU), and it needs to be launched from Towns OS V2.1 L31 or newer because the executable is in .EXG format.

> I have tested on Tsugaru[5,6] (an open-source FM TOWNS emulator - ed.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30159583

[1] http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/software/e.html

[2] http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/main/e2022.html

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAQt33Gj3KY

[4] https://github.com/captainys/FLYBY2

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269460

[6] http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/FM/e.html