JimAttrill

OFF ran fine under XP but now with W7 Ultimate I get the error "wmp.dll or one of its dependencies is missing or not registered" I have tried an uninstall and reinstall with the same result...

If you want a stable aircraft there is always the BE2 It's quite fun trying to stay alive.... I am about to try to fly through the whole war with 4 Squadron. I do cheat though, when a pilot goes west I add another one at the same date. I was really on 4 squadron 40 years ago so it's the least I can do.

I have just come back to OFF as I now have a new pooter - old one got struck by lightning. I am running W7 Ultimate 64-bit and have given up trying to get OFF to run. After installation (3 times!) it moans about some .dll file missing or corrupt. Running as an Admin doesn't help neither does running in XP mode. So I have now installed XP on my D drive and dual boot it. BTW DO NOT INSTALL XP AFTER W7 AS IT SCREWS UP W7. So I had to reinstall W7 and all the software etc. Took ages. However, OFF works fine on XP. I don't mind the extra effort as I was going to install XP anyway as I have other programs that won't work in W7, especially drivers for old printers are not available. So, having cleared all my dead Be2c and Fe2b pilots out I am ready to start again

Haven't they been scrapped along with most of the rest of the RAF?

My father joined the RAF in 1922 (a year before TE Lawrence) and retired as a Flt. Sgt. Fitter I in 1958. I joined the RAF in 1968 and left in 1973 as a Cpl. Engine Fitter. You can guess which side I fly on :salute:

What's a vuvuzela in Russian?

It last snowed here on September 16th 1981 I must say that Christmas isn't what it is up north as it's normally about 35º C and too hot to eat turkeys and such stuff. And the 25th is my birthday as well as that of another well-known person

I recognise that glassy building on the left - it used to be the Stock Exchange. I haven't been in that part of town for at least 15 years as I don't own an armoured car. Downtown Jo'burg is rather like downtown Detroit it seems.

One way for a country to lose a fortune is to host the World Cup. You end up with a lot of stadiums that will lose money for ever. The only people that make money are Septic Bladder and his cronies.

Hi Captain Sopwith, maybe I should try again to get WOG to work. I will (reinstall) Dosbox and start from there. I do remember I had problems like too much memory (which the installation program reported as not enough memory) and carried on from there. I couldn't get the joystick to work at all the last time I tried. Could you publish the details of your Autoexec.bat and config.sys files? If you pm me I will send you my email address. regards Jim

Nothing to do with TrackIr really, but I wore glasses from the age of 7 until 58. I was very short-sighted. As of about 45 I ended up having to wear very expensive multi-focals. Then my eyesight deteriorated suddenly (by about 2 diopters in my left eye), and I found I had cataracts, which are quite common here where there is a lot of sunlight. So I had the op, both eyes now have plastic lenses inside and I can see perfectly long-distance without glasses for almost the first time in my life. The down-side is that I need glasses to read and to use this computer, but they cost next to nothing and I have about 10 pairs scattered around the house. If I had known of this I would have had the operation done many years ago. Being able to drive and swim and generally operate without glasses or contact lenses is wonderful. Needing cheap reading glasses is not a problem. Sorry about this OT post......

Was it successful? The gunner looks a bit apprehensive....

They are quite rightly considered to be the first 'composite' aircraft, or at least the forerunners of that method of construction. Built by skilled furniture and piano makers as there was a shortage of metal workers. There is a non-flying one in our local war museum. (along with a lovely SE5a ... and the only Me262 night fighter etc.) I don't suppose the football fans will pay the museum a visit.

If one ignores obviously made-up ones like G-BOAC on a Concorde, I find the best ever British reg was G-EAOU on a famous Vickers Vimy.

I looked at the trailer, no rotaries or radials to be seen, but one aircraft looked remarkably like a Tiger Moth

The problem I have with the Fee is that I don't seem to be able to fly it at all without stalling and crashing - all this without any help from the enemy! Maybe I'm just a useless pilot. Quote from an unnamed web site: "how do you know if there is a pilot in the room?" - "They will tell you". If you find this funny you are obviously ground crew (like me).

I have no problems with my VLC copy of Windows XP pro on the many machines it has been installed on.

I sort-of remember seeing a scene in the film where there were two triplanes with engines running. One had a rotary (much to my surprise) and the other had a radial. Was I seeing things?

As with UncleAl I flew up the Thames in an SE5a an emptied my Vickers at the Houses of Parliament. So perish all politicians

I am still flying (and crashing) a Fee. Rather more than one, to tell the truth. I have decided that until I can fly this thing I cannot promote myself to more capable fighters. Some days it all goes well, and other days I feel like giving up and joining the PBI

Germany has always been protective of trees. Someone I knew crashed into a tree with his Beetle back in 1972 - and got a big bill for the tree

Ypres was completely unpronounceable to the average British Tommy, so they anglicized it to 'Wipers'. This may also have been a way to take the sting out of what happened there, rather as Paschendaele was called 'Passion Dale', which sounds like quite a nice sort of place if you weren't there.

Nothing wrong with that. I was a volunteer, and joined for the RAF technical training (and also to 'escape' from an existing and boring apprenticeship). And being technical in the RAF was hardly 'military' - possibly more dangerous now with Iraq and Afghanistan etc. The role of the RAF is summed up in the Army Rumour Service website: "In the Army it is generally the commissioned officers who send the chaps to do most of the dirty work. In the navy the officers and the chaps have to do it together on a large floating Exocet target. The RAF is unique in that the chaps stay safe and dry in a nice, cosy bomb-proof hangar while the commissioned officers are shot down and given a ferocious beasting on Al Jazeera TV. Consequently, in order to maintain morale, many RAF officers' messes are equipped with miniature pool tables and Fruit Machines. Classy eh? This seems only right and proper since the ground crew and engineers, by necessity, need to be educated and intelligent people whilst the prime qualifications for aircrew (apart from lightning reflexes and a good memory) are the ability to talk self-opinionated, noisy bollocks while nursing a half pint of piss-weak lager at the mess bar" Of course this (unofficial) Army web site is not exactly pro-RAF, but is subjective in its criticism of just about everything military (especially procurement) and with good reason IMHO. They are here for those who could do with a good laugh: http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/The_Royal_Air_Force

Hi Morris, I will have the other sound card if it's still going. I am fed up with the cm501 on-board sound card on my Asus M2n sli mobo. Apart from anything else it doesn't work with Windoze 7. Not that I run OFF under W7 anyway, because my joystick only half works.

Here is one of mine - they are both Royal Navy issue watches of 1990. One I have had since 2003 and has a cracked glass and this is a 'new' replacement. Unfortunately watches of WWI times are very rare and expensive http://www.rltwatche...catalog/cwc.JPG These are Cabot Watch Company - CWC - watches with Swiss movements issued to the UK forces.