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Following the Eye Candy Discussion
I just looked in my Directories and found a 'joke' review that I wrote for a
Flight Sim magazine three years ago. They did not print it as it seemed a bit too far fetched! Looking at it again, I thought a few of you guys might like to see how so much of what I wroteas fantasy then has become fact already... Eastern Promise June 2001 Flight Sim Breakthrough from the Balkans! Report by Christopher Jarman We have been studying reports of a completely new Flight Sim brought out by two programmers from Kosavo. Marc Svetlanski and Igorich Bjomic have been working on the software for four years ever since seeing a hacked version of MS FS98 given them by an RAF enthusiast. Uninhibited by Western ideas of simming, Marc, a brilliant programmer from the university of Ulaan and his partner Igorich who runs a small computer assembly works, have come up with some totally original ideas. To begin with the Sim is designed to be run on five screens. It will not even work very well on one alone. In order to obtain a more realistic all-round experience the panel and forward view is placed on the centre monitor and the quarter and side views on either side. GPS and moving maps can be placed in any of the screens. The terrain, which at present is of Eastern Europe only, is completely realistic as it is constantly downloaded from US satellite pictures. Thus while flying over a city, it is theoretically possible to look down and see what is actually taking place in real time. Due to licensing difficulties with Washington, the final details and permission for this effect have still to be worked out. Full ATC interactivity has been built in from the start using a huge database of conversations recorded from international air traffic frequencies. At present, while English is the universal language PC Pilot feels that the European accents of both pilots and controllers would make it hard for English or American simmers to understand, but the programmers have promised to work on this. Future upgrades are designed to tap into your own actual local ATC, which you will be able to hear but not, of course, to transmit to. The exciting development is the aircraft. There are heavy Russian civil jets, a whole fleet of Tupolevs including the military Tu-126, all the latest MIGs and many of the famous small trainers and acrobatic aircraft from that part of the world. The flight models are said to be first rate and have all been provided by the manufacturers' own experts who gave up their spare time freely to make this Sim as accurate as it could be. (Three of the flight modellers are Heroes of the Soviet Union, and one is an ex cosmonaut who had to retire from space flight due to an addiction which we must assume was vodka.) The weather is automatically set to real weather gathered from the internet every thirty minutes from worldwide meteorological reports by default. However, it is possible to select artificial, weather to your own requirements if you wish. Complete coverage of the exercise area in maps to a scale of 1:500,000 is available. The interface is similar to FSNav but using full colour. The map provision is intended to cover the whole planet eventually, in great detail including the underwater terrain, as a submarine Sim is being developed alongside this one. Another innovation is the ability to take on the personalities of some of the more famous USSR and Warsaw Pact pilots, both men and women. You select who you wish to be and as well as fitting you to the appropriate aircraft, you are programmed to fly in the same style. It is possible, for example to choose to work as Yuri Gagarin and to take part in a historical space mission. With the help of Soviet Psychologists the program has been cunningly written to provide headphone feedback and cues to the way you need to react and behave in order to stay in character with your chosen pilot. As soon as we are able to obtain a copy of this program - codenamed 'Blue December' we will be giving it a full review. In the meantime have a very happy Christmas. |
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Hi Quilljar,
Interesting, thought-provaking,and well written. Soooo, what are the winning Lotto numbers going to be next week? Come on, you can tell me - I won't tell anyone else, and we can split the money, upgrade the Parhelia and computer, buy that Sim', and start working our way through the payware addons... :-)) Regards, John "Quilljar" wrote in message ... I just looked in my Directories and found a 'joke' review that I wrote for a Flight Sim magazine three years ago. They did not print it as it seemed a bit too far fetched! Looking at it again, I thought a few of you guys might like to see how so much of what I wroteas fantasy then has become fact already... Eastern Promise June 2001 Flight Sim Breakthrough from the Balkans! Report by Christopher Jarman We have been studying reports of a completely new Flight Sim brought out by two programmers from Kosavo. Marc Svetlanski and Igorich Bjomic have been working on the software for four years ever since seeing a hacked version of MS FS98 given them by an RAF enthusiast. Uninhibited by Western ideas of simming, Marc, a brilliant programmer from the university of Ulaan and his partner Igorich who runs a small computer assembly works, have come up with some totally original ideas. To begin with the Sim is designed to be run on five screens. It will not even work very well on one alone. In order to obtain a more realistic all-round experience the panel and forward view is placed on the centre monitor and the quarter and side views on either side. GPS and moving maps can be placed in any of the screens. The terrain, which at present is of Eastern Europe only, is completely realistic as it is constantly downloaded from US satellite pictures. Thus while flying over a city, it is theoretically possible to look down and see what is actually taking place in real time. Due to licensing difficulties with Washington, the final details and permission for this effect have still to be worked out. Full ATC interactivity has been built in from the start using a huge database of conversations recorded from international air traffic frequencies. At present, while English is the universal language PC Pilot feels that the European accents of both pilots and controllers would make it hard for English or American simmers to understand, but the programmers have promised to work on this. Future upgrades are designed to tap into your own actual local ATC, which you will be able to hear but not, of course, to transmit to. The exciting development is the aircraft. There are heavy Russian civil jets, a whole fleet of Tupolevs including the military Tu-126, all the latest MIGs and many of the famous small trainers and acrobatic aircraft from that part of the world. The flight models are said to be first rate and have all been provided by the manufacturers' own experts who gave up their spare time freely to make this Sim as accurate as it could be. (Three of the flight modellers are Heroes of the Soviet Union, and one is an ex cosmonaut who had to retire from space flight due to an addiction which we must assume was vodka.) The weather is automatically set to real weather gathered from the internet every thirty minutes from worldwide meteorological reports by default. However, it is possible to select artificial, weather to your own requirements if you wish. Complete coverage of the exercise area in maps to a scale of 1:500,000 is available. The interface is similar to FSNav but using full colour. The map provision is intended to cover the whole planet eventually, in great detail including the underwater terrain, as a submarine Sim is being developed alongside this one. Another innovation is the ability to take on the personalities of some of the more famous USSR and Warsaw Pact pilots, both men and women. You select who you wish to be and as well as fitting you to the appropriate aircraft, you are programmed to fly in the same style. It is possible, for example to choose to work as Yuri Gagarin and to take part in a historical space mission. With the help of Soviet Psychologists the program has been cunningly written to provide headphone feedback and cues to the way you need to react and behave in order to stay in character with your chosen pilot. As soon as we are able to obtain a copy of this program - codenamed 'Blue December' we will be giving it a full review. In the meantime have a very happy Christmas. |
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John Ward wrote:
Hi Quilljar, Interesting, thought-provaking,and well written. You are too kind as usual John; an Aussie gent! |
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