[simpits-tech] TripleHead2Go...

[Joseph Fagner]

It's a self fulfilling prophesy.  People don't want to buy stuff from
someone because they are afraid of them going out of business.  They go out
of business because no one buys anything and then those folks turn around
and go...see, I told you so.

Plus, the market is just so darn small, it's hard to make a living doing
just this.  You have to broaden your offerings to more markets.

Leo and I and Mike have been working together to bring more and more stuff
to F-16 builders.  5 years ago there was little to go on, now as you said
David, it's a matter of having money and you can buy just about everything
you need to put a pit together.  There are kits for the structure, Mike
lasers panels for the viper, leo's stuff, Mike and I make the ICP and
caution panels and we are working on a plug and go CMDS panel as well.

Oh, next thing leo and I are going to do is try to get the CRT RWR fully
functional.  We got the real one I have about 90% there.  There are two
issues we have problems with.  I think leo is going to try to build and
offer a turn key one based on his design and thus no need for a real
display.

Leo and I had many long conversations where he was just frustrated as all
get out trying to break into the heavies market...just didn't work out for
him.  However, I suspect I might hear a little bit of a change in heart for
a second go around.

Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: simpits-tech-bounces at simpits.org
[mailto:simpits-tech-bounces at simpits.org] On Behalf Of David C. Allen
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:34 PM
To: Simulator Cockpit tech list
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] TripleHead2Go...

At 04:56 PM 5/1/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>Not so much.  Support for MSFS was abandoned for other reasons...mainly the
>fact that people bitched and complained that he didn't add support for 3rd
>party stuff, even after he asked those 3rd party vendors for the needed
>information to allow the support and he was basically told to go piss off.

Yes everything had to go through FSUIPC, but now we have SimConnect, 
more doors open!

>Problem with the Heavy community is they are pretty embedded with the EPIC
>system.

EPIC was old school and builders who invested in it are slow to give 
up on all the time and money.

>  So the market for MSFS just dried up on him so he decided not to
>waste time writing software for MSFS when no one from that market was
buying
>his hardware.

There are so many card builders on the market today, but the sad part 
is how long they stay in business.
The panel makers like FDS are entering into the electronics game, and 
the software guys like project magenta are selling hardware. Someone 
starting a 737 today just needs money and a shipping address.

More and more stuff is going to be plug and play.

>Now, for the race car sims and us Falcon guys, it's a different story.  He
>and I have been working on a number of projects for the last 6 months.  He
>is about to release functional gauges for Falcon flyiers.  Two, 1.5 and one
>inch gauges.  Support is also being added for Hyd and Cabin pressure gauges
>which are not supported in Falcon.

Leo makes great stuff, I am using his load cell amps to generate the 
proper input levels from load cells and a old Plasma module. Hope to 
get the 1 x Plasma-Lite + 1 x NITRO expansion cards then the analog 
out will be solved

David
www.737FlightSim

>Jay

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