[simpits-tech] Thoughts

[Marv De Beque]

Would you provide George's email to me?

You can respond direct to me.   I would be happy to provide some input.

Marv


On 11/23/02 2:12 PM, "kelly Mclaren" <kmclaren@videotron.ca> wrote:

> Stig, don't give up hope on a F16 pit.
> Thist was taking from from Comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flightsim news group
> Marc..
> 
> 
> Hello I am the former President of Military Simulations the producer and
> developer of Back To Baghdad. Would there be any interest for an up to
> version of this F-16 game if it included continuous 10M Satellite Imagery
> along with 1M imagery of important detail areas all flying at 60Hz on a
> GEForce 3 and higher graphics card. If so please let me know what features
> you folks would like to see. I am doing an initial study to see if there is
> any interest in this product before I commit the funds to do another build.
> Our product has transformed into a full Military training system so I need
> to move it back to the entertainment area if there is interest.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> George T. Keverian
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stig Joergensen" <stig.joergensen@clearsky.dk>
> To: <simpits-tech@simpits.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 1:31 PM
> Subject: [simpits-tech] Thoughts
> 
> 
>> Rob,
>> 
>> After i send the mail i realized that it could be read as one big
>> excuse, which was not the intension at all but a small attempt to state
>> fact - here i go again, making excuses - some one please stop me.....
>> 
>> Anyway, got slammed enough so i might aswell tell a little about my
>> project (or idea)
>> 
>> It started out as a sketch to build an F16 but the more i got into this,
>> i realized that a commercial plane might be better, as support for
>> cockpit interactivity might be better with the M$F$ series over time, i
>> fear that well only see a couple other sims out there with these kind of
>> support (falcon V - mostly due to Erwin, and LOMAC - thats genes
>> department), but i think that the FS series will continue to bring a new
>> one every other year or so - anyway thats the reason for me going
>> commercial.
>> 
>> So the next question came, what plane to choose, there was basically 4
>> to choose from,
>> 
>> 1) a piper (a small)
>> 2) a learjet (little bigger)
>> 3) the Airbus (big)
>> 4) Boeing (huge son-of-a-bitch).
>> 
>> I started to think about the learjet, a small plane with jet engines so
>> i could travel all over europe without spending a week in the air but
>> soon realized there was not that much info available, so i changes
>> horses again - and now it might be the B747 or A340, started working
>> with Steve S (where are you?) to collect some stuff and now have a good
>> collection of pilot stuff, not much on the cockpit or airframe front
>> though.
>> 
>> Then started to mess with electronics again (been 15+ years since my
>> last involvement, and the world pretty much got digital on me in the
>> mean time) - made a few small gizmos, just to see if i still had it -
>> they was working on the prototyping board so i was now convinced that i
>> would be ok, with a little help from various groups that it.
>> 
>> Next up i needed to design the cockpit - started to sketch a few things
>> and found that i currently dont have the room for a full cockpit,
>> although it could be cool if my home office was a flighdeck but not that
>> practical, so started to build a desktop pit where i can stove the
>> sticks away when not needed until the day where i move to a bigger place
>> 
>> while doing all of this, i spend a couple of hours a week researching
>> plastics and how cast panels and stuff like that. I haven't found the
>> solution yet though
>> 
>> This is where im at at the moment, my next project is to build a driver
>> for windows - a TCP/IP keyboard and mouse - but this might bee a too big
>> thing for me to handle - time will tell
>> 
>> thanks for staying on this long - i know i was rambling but..... who
>> knows - my thoughts might be useful to someone......
>> 
>> 
>> ohh and by the way - i did do an article
>> http://www.clearsky.dk/Electronics/PCBMaking/Step1.htm so i properly
>> shouldn't fell haunted...
>> 
>> 
>> /Stig
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rob Hommel [mailto:rhommel@tacoma.net]
>> Sent: 23. november 2002 11:02
>> To: simpits-tech@simpits.org
>> Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] F-15sim.com on Userfriendly.org
>> 
>> 
>> Stig
>> 
>> A reply from one of the regular suspects is always welcome. Prohm has
>> done a
>> great job of getting the site to the stage that someone with a bit of
>> html
>> experience could take over, as far as the writing side goes that task is
>> not
>> a real problem for most folks but seeing as to how most of the list
>> membership seems to have crippled their hands in some kind of freak
>> power
>> tool accident. I just don't know where we will find the person capable
>> of
>> doing the simple stuff.
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