1. How do I install and run Sol on Windows?
Use the SOL Installer for Windows link to download InstallSol.exe. Once the download is finished, run the installer. Click the Install button. After the installation finishes, a shortcut to Sol will be placed on your desktop. Double click the shortcut to run Sol.
2. How do I install and run Sol on Linux?
Use the SOL zip for Linux link to download sol.linux.zip. This zip contains the Sol program binaries and data files for Linux. Binary compatibility with any particular Linux version is not guaranteed. To install, create an install dir, such as /usr/local/sol, and unzip sol.linux.zip in this dir. Run Sol using "./sol".
3. How do I uninstall Sol?
Delete the Sol installation directory, which is typically C:\Program Files\Sol on Windows. Also, delete the Sol shortcut from the desktop.
4. How do I make Sol use a different screen size?
To customize Sol's video settings, create a text file named sol.ini in the Sol installation dir, with the contents:
[SOL]
Width=800
Height=600
Depth=32
FullScreen="TRUE"
Sol uses video settings from sol.ini if this file is found on launch. Whether a particular configuration will work depends on what modes your video card and display support.
5. Will Sol's source code be released?
A later version of Sol may be released as shareware or commercial software, so it will not be open sourced at this time. For now, it is ad-supported freeware, so please visit our sponsors' links.
6. How was Sol developed?
Sol is a cross platform C++ application using a custom OpenGL-based 3D game engine. The development environment is the vi editor. On Windows, it is built using Cygwin and the Win32 API to avoid dependencies on specific Windows DLLs. Sol contains custom code for celestial motion, atmospheric effects, temporal events, 3D collision detection, and AI.
7. What are Sol's license terms?
Sol is freeware which individuals are free to install and run for personal use, with no warranty of functionality or usability for any particular purpose. Sol is Copyright (c) 2007 by Paul Hamill and may not be redistributed without the author's permission. See the file License.txt installed with Sol for detailed license terms.
8. What is Sol's privacy/security policy?
Sol does not make network connections, collect
user information, modify system files, or execute malicious code.
Sol has been
certified clean of adware and spyware by Softpedia:
