Erik

Welcome.

Second @GKABS, welcome all!

Really unfortunate news. Prayers for all and their families.

No worries at all, thanks for the report. You should be all set on next log in. Thank you.

Welcome.

Welcome.

If you're a new member here at CombatACE, welcome. Take a moment and introduce yourself to the community, it's a great way to break the ice.

Links are in place. Located in both the downloads catalogue and the file download page. If that doesn't get the point across I'm not sure what will. The requirements have been updated as well so take a moment and review them.

That's of the assumption that I've made no effort to communicate how to activate free downloads. Do you really think this is true?

Like it was yesterday, a short one hundred and twelve years ago and we went from the Wright Flyer to what we have today. Amazing!

Silly question, but why is it my responsibility to fix the inability of people being able to read? I've jumped through the hoops, I continue to support the site, now I have to spoon feed downloads on a golden platter with an Erik fix this or make this widget so they can figure it out. I'm not following the logic here and I'm asking sincerely. I'm of the opinion that if they have to put in just the smallest amount of effort to download files for free that's okay. Just me?

Your account looks like it should be able to download files with the free account. Can you confirm?

You could try providing more information, like the link to the file you were trying to download. We have thousands of files, nobody is going to guess which file you were trying to download.

If anyone can, it would certainly be you.

Posted at SimHQ letting Mike know I sent him a PM here. We'd be happy to host him at no cost if it saves the work. We'll see how it goes.

Your profile completion isn't critical, those are things like birthday, age, all the other stuff that nobody usually shares. Your email account is fundamental to your account, you can't have an account without an associated email address. If your email address is good, you can login and receive email there, then that is the gold standard. Being around 20+ years we've got a lot of old email addresses that people have changed or abandoned. Email providers are revoking bulk senders ability for having too many returned emails, meaning we send emails to accounts that don't exist. That's why we've been on the kick to get email addresses updated.

The report feature is for problems with content, that doesn't always translate very well into other languages. Over the years I've seen reports of someone's wife burning the meatloaf to Dave just being Dave. Trust me, if you're here long enough you will see it all. Just ignore the reports if you don't want to deal with them. One of us will come eventually and clear them out or deal with them. If you do interact please make notes so we don't follow up and duplicate your efforts. Yes we do get some reports of spam but those were in days past. Hopefully now with the new rules in place it's harder for people to spam the forum. I haven't seen any but then again you guys are pretty quick to get to it before I do. Thanks for looking out, not sure there's much to be done here other than user education and that's a never-ending battle. E

The posts are necessary, they distinguish you from bots.

It's not an immediate promotion so don't expect to get promoted immediately after making some posts. 1) We have to approve those posts and 2) The system batches promotions every 20 minutes. So from the time you post until they are approved is an unknown time frame and then 20-30 minutes after posts are approved the system will promote you if your account qualifies.

I think you can forget about putting aircraft on that beauty. Instead, just use it as a battering ram.

Two different animals. TCP/UDP is built for WAN architecture and IPX/SPX is built for LAN architecture, the prior is for internet connections the later is for local networking. IPX does not perform well in WAN environments and has scalability limitations even if you use a UDP wrapper, which is just the making of kludge supreme sandwich. If you're attempting to get an old code base online for multiplayer, it will likely need a connector setup to DirectX to use its engine which would be the cheapest and easiest way but the entire game would need to be rebuilt to support that. On older code base updating to modernize it into Win10/11 (supported OSs) would be the expensive part. That's usually why platforms without deep pocket support usually sunset. There are rare oddities out there but they are passion works usually supported by a devoted author with tons of time and something to prove. Don't know anything about EAW so can't speak directly on that so make of this what you will.

Why are we bumping a 12 year old topic. Wild

I can still see the "Be Kind Rewind" sign and hear the sound of tapes in their plastic boxes being tossed into the return box.

No, but I'll explain in a PM.

Really some good ideas, keep them coming. You guys have some amazing creativity. I'm enjoying reading your ideas.