AutoSave: Automatic flight saving add-on for FS98, FS2000 and FS2002
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Version 1.41, 31st October 2001
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Place AutoSave.dll in your FS98/FS2000/FS2002 Modules folder. It will save
flights ("STN" files in FS98, "FLT" plus "WX" files for FS2000) at
regular intervals, so you can retry that crashed landing or
quickly recover from other problems.

By default AutoSave saves a flight every 60 seconds, and keeps the last 10
files. These files (placed in the Pilots folder for FS98 and FS200, or in the
Flight\Myflts folder for FS2002) are named as follows:

	AutoSave day hhmmss
	
where 'day' is day of the wek. The time is the computer's local system
time, NOT the one on the FS98 clock. This format allows you to easily
select a suitable file to restart from. With 10 files at one minute
intervals you have the last 10 minutes covered.

Note that AutoSave does not save these files whilst the aircraft in on the
ground (EXCEPT maybe in slew mode if you started this mode in the air). This
allows you to take a breather and recoup after a crash! <G>. If you really
want it to save files when on the ground, you'll need an extra parameter --
see below.

The files aren't saved whilst FS is paused, either, to avoid overwriting
all those useful ones which identical copies of a paused simulator!

AutoSave creates a file in the main FS folder called AutoSave.cfg. This
contains two sections -- [User] and [Files]. don't edit the latter, as it
is used by AutoSave to keep track of the files it creates. However,
you can change the two parameters in the [User] section to suit yourself:

  Interval=60
  	gives the interval between saves in Seconds.
  
  Files=10
  	gives the number of files to be retained (1-30).
  	
You can also add parameters for an optional additional file which has a fixed
name and which is saved regardless of FS's mode or state:

  AlsoSave=name of file
  AlsoInterval=60
  
For example, adding
 
  AlsoSave=My Restart
  AlsoInterval=30
  
will save the flight as "My Restart" every 30 seconds. This is in addition
to the timed files above. The idea here is that you can set "My Restart" or
whatever as your default flight, so after an program or hardware crash, or
power outage, you can simply load up FS and continue from a few seconds
before the problem.

If you want only this behaviour, and no timed files, set the File parameter to
zero (thus "Files=0"). Then only the "also file" will operate.

Finally, if you want AutoSave to save flights at intervals whilst you are
on the ground, as for instance when taxying, add this parameter:

  SaveOnGround=Yes

It still won't save flights whilst paused, nor if the latitude and longitude
of the aircraft has remained exactly the same as the last time.


Changes to these parameters are not effective until FS is reloaded. (If you
decrease the number of files retained, you should also delete the excess files
in the Pilots (or for FS2002, the Flights\Myflts folder) folder, as they will
then be left untouched by AutoSave).

Changes in version 1.41
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Simplified to not rely on TIMER message from Windows. ON some systems, seemingly
only Win2000 or WinXP, these messages sometimes stop arriving.

Changes in version 1.40
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Made to work in the Release version of FS2002.


Changes in version 1.30
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Made to work in the Beta of FS2002 current at the date of release.


Changes in version 1.20
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An new option "SaveOnGround" is added to make the normal timed saves apply even
with the aircraft on the ground  -- provided it is not stationary and FS
is not paused.

This version also erases old .FMC autosaved files, apparently created if the
Wilco 767 Pilot in Command aircraft is currently loaded.


Changes in version 1.10
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Made to work in FS2000 by calling the correct routine -- which had moved! Also
the filenames used in FS2000 end with '.FLT' and '.WX., not the '.STN' of FS98.
Interestngly, the FLT files are in standard .ini file text format, so you can
check them and edit them if you like.

The WX files save the weather. If you have downloaded a whole world's worth
of real weather, these can be quite large. In consequence there could be a
slight 'stutter' when AutoSave saves the file -- although I think it is
unlikely that you will notice this if you are using a PC which is fast enough
to be running FS2000 well!

Changes in version 1.03
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Very minor change internally. No external impact whatsoever.

Changes in version 1.02
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Minor change to make the DLL accept the window classname for FS2000. With luck
this will make it compatible already!

Changes in version 1.01
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AlsoSave facilities added.

Timed saves prevented when paused.

Small bug fixed which made "Next" file out of line with saved filenames, so
overwriting the wrong one and leaving one AutoSave file on disk for each FS98
session.

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Freeware by Pete Dowson, October 2001
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