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the first pic looks like DART. but i guess they all kinda look the same.

Rest in Peace, Neil and Peace and Love to all of Neil's family(related or otherwise). He was a very nice man and very talented as well. Sad news indeed.

my first PC was a TRS 80. I just never thought of it as a PC and I didn't play flight sim on it. I wrote some programs in BASIC and I used a tape drive to load Zaxxon. that was fun. but my first PC as I see it was a 286 and I remember well using highmem sys and qemm (quarterdeck?) to get as much available lower (lower!) memory available. device =... I used to play around with fancy prompts as well by putting in different characters and using different colors and date and time. had one that was a flag like cursor. I really liked using red green and blue to make three dimensional looking prompts. they looked 3D to me anyways. but the FS maps were great and I remember how happy I was when I discovered I could fly off of one map and onto another - like Chicago to New York or Seatlle down to San fransisco. I was proud of myself for that. on a side note - anyone have a Vectrex?

my first PC was a 286 also. It had the 'Turbo' button that machines used to have. Im not sure what version of DOS I ran but it was before Windows existed. The first computer I played flightsim on was my brothers. It was 8086 with no hard drive and 4 meg of ram I think. I remember that we would play some games on that that were written in Turbo Pascal and when I tried to play them on my 286, they were just a blur they went so fast. and now we cant get machines fast enough.

Neil - I saw a thread today in the P3D forum about 'peeling' textures and I read it and I need to mention that KIPT has that problem. Its always had it as long as I can remember but if theres a fix then that would be great. and has anyone ever looked at improving KHMZ. its in a beautiful location and a great trip from KIPT. Id love to see it as a full blown Global airport due to its pleasant mountains and valleys with a scenic interstate and river and small town approach from the south. But the freeware aiprots are incredible and much appreciated too.