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Sounds great Erik. I hope the site and EAW history can be saved. Fingers crossed. VBH

The dowload site where it all started and created by Mike 'Sandbagger' Norris will disappear forever January 2026. It is suggested that if there's still something of interest you need from there better hurry up and start downloading! https://simhq.net/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4673492/tally-ho-site-closing-down#Post4673492 All the best Mike! VonBeerhofen

Great to hear about your progress Gkabs. Concentrate on the positive and hopefully you'll be 100% OK quickly. Enjoyment is a very powerful tool for recovery, so try to keep having fun and enjoy each new day as much as possible! My thoughts are with you and with all people having a hard time. VonBeerhofen

I've been experimenting on low poly count 3D models to improve nature in EAWPRO. This is one design meant to increase the number of palm trees in Pacific Tide IV and get a denser jungle with a multi-tree 100% model of this design. Something like this but then times2, BTW this is a fast rendering standard 8 bit version! VonBeerhofen

The bug preventing EAW from correctly displaying airspeed will be solved in EAWPRO's next release, after some rigorous testing with other recent changes. VonBeerhofen

Staying positive is 1/2 the battle won GKABS, and I hope the support from your friends and family will provide the other 1/2. Here's my 2cts, hang in there and have faith! VonBeerhofen

Glad to have been of some assistance. Have fun, VonBeerhofen

Here is some more information: VonBeerhofen

Almost forgot, If you have v1.28 then my large font is probably already in and you won't see much difference. For that version I think you can change it's size in the EAW.INI if I remember correctly. VonBeerhofen

Probably easiest is to replace the HUD font with this one: https://www.thatoneplease.co/vonbeerhofen/LargeFont.zip Just extract the ZIP into your game folder where the EAW.EXE resides. VonBeerhofen

I see some similarities with a fried video card. When that happened to me with an fx5500, my machine became totally unpredictable and no indication that the card was at fault. It took me about 4 weeks searching the web before I started to believe. In the mean time I had tried several reinstalls of the OS and all drivers. A cheap used Gforce2 send to me by mail from Australia kept my Dimension 8100 going till today. Hey it's 25 years old now, VonBeerhofen

Could this have something to do with Microsoft's move to impose Win 11 on the entire world? Obviously the install will try to communicate with Microsoft to verify certain things. If possible try to reinstall without an active internet connection, no cables router/modem. Good luck, hope you get it working! VonBeerhofen

Hi GKABS, I don't often visit this page on account of being too busy but I understand life dealt you a particular tough blow from which you are now recuperating. Just want to let you know that I'm hoping for your full recovery and a continuation of your work in these forums, which I've been following on and off. Stay strong! VonBeerhofen

I forgot to mention that expert knowledge about the Windows Kernel, DirectX and graphics cards are also required. Couldn't access the link either VBH

Hi buccaneer, Sounds a bit like what the EAW community attempted to do. I've been a code group member for a short time after which I went my own way with EAW's source code. First of all we all had to learn C++ in order to understand the code and additionally I unravelled most of the hex code and disassembly of the EXE linking many tables to the source and figuring out their formats. We started this in 2005 when the source code was handed to us and if you're familiar with the game you may understand what was achieved and what not. I'm still working on it with the source by my side and without further help. I couldn't have done much without the code, not even with the knowledge of various computer languages in my skill set. I agree with previous remarks about needing a skilled team with good knowledge about flight models, physics & lots of time and money. I wish I could be of further help but EAW still consumes 80% of my life. Good luck with your effort! VonBeerhofen