Jay Kae Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Orbx ! lol January 31st, 2007 is the day that the Orbx Forums opened up for general use, ppl were not interested in it at all as you can see from the stat page. How things change! Happy Birthday Orbx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Happy Birthday indeed, And where would we all be now if it never got off the ground not here for one thing. But just think how the whole team here has changed our hobby with the fantastic scenery and now the Lancair to use. I know myself i have never made as many friends on any other forum as this one so now lets all look to the future and the future is Orbx, Well done to you all that are involved here and many more years to come. cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Nice stat Jay! But Orbx is older. The company was officially registered on 20th July 2006. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evoras Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Wow! 4 yrs old today...she sure has grown. She has quite a large "family' too. Happy Birthday Orbx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dow Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Four weeks until another milestone is reached... see if you can spot it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Kae Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 Yeah I knew it was older cause I remember you showing a very early Orbx logo on the VOZ forums under a different username lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dow Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 I remember sitting in the terminal at YSCB with JV getting a sneak preview of YSTW in FS9 and an early demo of what FSX would produce... thinking to myself all the while "Yeah sure John, textures will go down to 0 feet, but so must performance". In the fullness of time I have learnt what words taste like! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Jeeeeeeez, time really fly's when you are having fun Great stuff Guys! manny happy returns ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Well, it's still the 31th of January here...so, congratulations to Orbx and the forum! I have found a few pictures of Orbx first (?) release: Tamworth 1.0 for FS9 which was released in August 2007. Still an excellent looking scenery! And a nice quote from the manual: Welcome! Thank you for downloading Orbx Tamworth Freeware Release 1.0 – we hope you have many hours of pleasure flying into this regional Australian airport. This scenery was designed by a talented group of flight simulation developers hand-picked by Orbx Simulation Systems. Most of the development team had previously contributed to the very successful Vista Australis (VOZ) Freeware project (vistaoz.org). The Tamworth project was intended to be a “proof of concept” demonstration to see what level of detail could be achieved for a regional Australian airport using data sourced from local knowledge, aerial and ground level photography and off-the-shelf tools including the FS2004 SDK. The scenery took some nine months to complete from inception to its current state. We should point out that in this freeware version, the airport is not yet fully complete, with many features which were planned not included as yet. At some point in the future, Orbx may choose to fully develop this airport into a commercial package both for private, military and commercial use. However, in its current form and under the terms of use, you are permitted to only use this as a freeware airport for private non-training and non-commercial use “as is”. I think you have more than achieved your goals! I'm looking forward to many more years with Orbx Greetings Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeszondag Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 HB, that's nice the same day our queen gets older every year... (not that it shows ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAviator Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Where is this stats page? Can't seem to find it! And also, any chance of seeing this early ORBX retro logo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Yeah I knew it was older cause I remember you showing a very early Orbx logo on the VOZ forums under a different username lol Oh you mean these ones Jay? FTX was in fact going to be called "VOZ X", then "VOZ Scenery X", then "VOZ Pro", then "Flight Terrain X" and eventually we settled on Full Terrain Experience. We may in fact adopt a completely new name for the Microsoft FLIGHT series of Orbx products, you never know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyxx Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 All I can say is I wish Orbx all the best and thank you all for your great work.......Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAviator Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 I've always wondered, how did you come up with Orbx? Or is that a company secret... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 I've always wondered, how did you come up with Orbx? Or is that a company secret... Orb = Planet, the whole world, our eventual coverage goal x = ten times the detail than before Simple huh? Our name is our mission statement. And contrary to many people's spelling, it's Orbx (little 'x'), not OrbX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Womack Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 And here I thought it was another of your wacky Australian birds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Kae Posted February 1, 2011 Author Share Posted February 1, 2011 Yeah that is the ones and there was also the first logo that actually said Orbx but.. I can see it in my mind's eye but I can't describe it if that makes any sense? There was red in it lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Kane Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 I just wanted to say Thank-you to all you guys at ORBX for everything you have done. As a long time Flight Enthusiast and Flight Simulator User this is the best thing that has come along in Flight Simulation. I am looking forward to the New Zealand Scenery most of all. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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