IS VER

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Introduction

The VERsion packet contains information about the LFS and InSim versions, allowing you to prevent your program interacting with legacy versions of the game. To request an IS_VER packet, either set ReqI to non-zero in the IS_ISI packet when initialising InSim, or send an IS_TINY packet with a SubT of TINY_VER.

struct IS_VER // VERsion
{
	byte	Size;			// 20
	byte	Type;			// ISP_VERSION
	byte	ReqI;			// ReqI as received in the request packet
	byte	Zero;

	char	Version[8];		// LFS version, e.g. 0.3G
	char	Product[6];		// Product: DEMO / S1 / S2 / S3
	byte	InSimVer;		// InSim version (see below)
	byte	Spare;			// Spare
};

Packet Details

Size

The size of the packet, always 20.

Type

The type of packet from the ISP_ enumeration, always ISP_VER.

ReqI

Contains the ReqI as received in the request for an IS_VER to be sent.

Version

The LFS version, e.g. 0.7G.

Product

The LFS product, e.g. S3.

InSimVer

The current InSim version, which at the time of writing is version 10. If this value does not match the version of InSim you are expecting, your program may not work correctly.