[Largest ever Orbx team attendance at FS Expo 2019]

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

[Neil Hill is no longer with us]

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 used for Flightsim.]

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 used for Flightsim.]

1 hour ago, shortspecialbus said:

My first flightsim PC was a 286, I think the CPU was something like 2/4/6mhz switchable via a software command (you had to use the lowest one to play Defender because it was a .com file and so didn't use timing at all), with a 20MB hard drive that we used Stacker 2.0 on.  EGA graphics.  Played MSFS 3.3 and Sublogic ATP on that so much.

 

-stefan

 

 

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.

[Calling all FSX "misfit" (non-fitting) airports]

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.