[simpits-tech] FSX

[lestatandakasha at msn.com]

This is exactly what i have ended up doing. And i have had exactly the same 
conversation with my wife.

I agree Matrox TH2G is an amazing product - but the massive hike in the 
price since Microsoft stopped Vista from monitor spanning has annoyed me 
immensely - their product prices have risen by 50% but the products 
themselves remain the same.

Anyway - ill leave you to it again.

PS Gene - thank you for that link, a very very useful find indeed - i shall 
be handing them some money :)

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From: "Rick Davis" <rd at ns.sympatico.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 9:38 PM
To: "Simulator Cockpit Builder's List" <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] FSX

> Well said Gene,
>
> Spreading it out also helps on the wife front as she tends to forget what
> I've actually put out over the years!  I could be fiddling around with a 
> new
> toy and say to her ... "This? Oh, I've had that here for years now. Forgot
> all about it actually. Don't you remember that box over there in the 
> corner
> all these years?
>
>>puzzled look ... leaves basement ... shaking head <
>
> BWHAHAHAHA!
>
> R
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gene Buckle" <geneb at deltasoft.com>
> To: "Simulator Cockpit Builder's List" <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 5:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] FSX
>
>
>>> Gene
>>> What do people think "money wise" when you tell them you have a REAL 
>>> F15.
>>
>> No clue.  The jaw drop that happens when I tell 'em I only paid $1500 for
>> it is priceless though. :)
>>
>> As time goes on, the bar is getting lower and lower for people to build
>> their own flight simulators.  When I started at this in 1995, the only
>> game in town was EPIC.  Now there's a lot of stuff out there and it gets
>> better and cheaper with every passing hardware generation.  For example,
>> you can build a 32 channel output board that will sink 500mA per channel
>> for $20 in parts and a few evenings of assembly time[*]  Commercially you
>> can buy the same thing for $100-$150.
>>
>> Yes, over time the small purchases add up - but the financial cost of
>> building your dream project is a lot easier to handle spread over a long
>> period of time.  If you're not starting out with a real cockpit or flight
>> deck, the only real hard spike in project cost is going to be the video
>> system.  Some people will go my route and build their projectors and
>> others that can will spend the $2700-$3500+ for COTS projectors.  Sol7
>> doesn't offer me enough value for the price they're charging.  I can just
>> as easily construct a folded projection system based around convex 
>> acrylic
>> first surface mirrors in combination with concave screens.  The only real
>> feature that Sol7 has that I could use would be the edge blending and
>> apparently that's not available in the $470 edition.  I'd rather spend 
>> the
>> money on those first surface mirrors and do the edge alignment by hand.
>>
>> g.
>>
>> [*] "Warning & Status Lights" project in Building Recreational Flight
>> Simulators
>>
>>
>>
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