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Call of Duty, a nice clay pigeon launcher and a box of clay targets, (gettin ready for turkey season), a gigabyte MoBo with all the bells and whistles, an AMD XP 2000+ cpu, and the PC-2700 RAM, a cpu fan that may require me to take a class in HVAC, and a power supply to make it all work. This setup will allow me to improve the system as I can afford it. Sure beats my old P3 1ghz... :D B) "It is nice to throw in a game and it just works with no tweaking"...for that reason alone I wont hassle ya MJ. I can relate... :(

Well, for me personally, the game itself doesnt work. Its because I have a Radeon 8500 that doesnt fully support DX9, an operating system, win98, that doesnt work with the game, and a pentium3 1ghz, which isnt enough to run the game like it should be run. Funny thing is, the system requirements listed on the box indicated I fell well within all the requirements. And guess what? I cant take it back for a refund! I almost feel like Ive been taken. I hope wags comes thru, I kinda think he will... FB is still my favorite anyway. I love the old WW2 aircraft and the LACK of complexity. Kinda one reason why I still play SFP1. Love the era, and the aircraft. Hopefully by the end of Christmas break, Ill get my replacement disc back.

The reason for the season... LUKE 2:4-14... And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. Im a long way from perfect. My friends say Im a C.O.B., hehe. But Ive never been happier in my life. My prayers are with each and every one of you. May Gods peace reside in your hearts and in your homes. Merry Christmas my friends...

:D Not only birds can be dangerous, deer, salmon and turtles are hazardous too! http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/media/app...ticles/0066.htm What a hoot! The turtle "dashing"?? LOL! PS. I had the pleasure as LSE on the DD-971, to get a ride in the SH-2 back in '84. We were in the Persian Gulf playing sitting duck for the Iranians. The helo naturally did a LOT of patroling. We had flight ops nearly continuasly. The flight was a blast.

MJ, Could you PM me your email addy. The email function on the forum doesnt allow attachments.

Ive had a bit of trouble with the upload lately. I was able to upload 5 files with no apparent problem. But the last two have given me quite a bit of guff. Twice getting an error message after waiting for the file to finish the upload. The other times, 2 or 3, I had no idea if the file successfully uploaded, and after a week passes and the last file still not posted for download, I have to assume it wasnt successful. My suggestion is having a page come up with a note telling us the file upload was successful. Just a thought...

Hi MJ, any findings yet?

This is the BEST mod I can recall for ANY game. Ive never seen one add so MUCH QUALITY stuff. It plays well, is darn fun single or multi-player, and can run on my old Pentium3 system without so much as a hiccup. Its funny cuase I never got into MOH, this comes along and its become one of my favorites...not sure why the difference.

Ive been waitin for this boat and its finally come in! :D Very nice work AD, love that pit. Cant wait...

WHOA! Did you see that screen of the FFG? Man! The detail! I'm...I'm gettin' whoozy... Interesting, an actual individual ship sim. Reminds me of Destroyer Command, except present day. This could be interesting. I could finally have my own combat information center and NO ONE to tell not to touch any buttons with yellow stripes... I'd love to go sub hunting in my old ship, the David R. Ray DD-971. :ph34r:

Dear Jesus, We pray for your presence and comfort with this man Wally, as he mourns the loss of his wife. Let him in ever growing faith lay hold your promise of life again one day. And till then, allow your peace to reside in his heart. Let hope never dim, let laughter and smiles never fade as memories come to mind. Let him always look forward, never behind. Let him walk Lord, with you...Amen If we, or I, can help in any way, just say the word.

Zag, dont feel bad, I got a P3 1ghz with 512 MB RAM and a radeon 8500 and running win98 and this game just plain aint werkin! I just bought it a couple days ago and have spent more time online and in the options page, than actually flying. I did find a work around using the old demo files to get the game to launch finally. I also discovered there is a force feedback centering problem that is being addressed in the upcoming patch along with the win98 issue. I was able to fool with the controller settings to dampen problems a bit. But in the meantime, my flight control isnt as good as I want it to be. I was also able to improve the framerates somewhat by over-clocking my video card a bit and seeting all settings on performance over quality with the card, and to generally all low settings in-game. But by far, the biggest problem, which I havent found a resolution or fix for, and which hasnt been mentioned in any patch updates, is flashing textures. My plane, the terrain, and sometimes parts of the sky flash off and on, disappear for a few moments, or turn invisible completely, forcing me to reboot. The cockpit, everything, can suddenly disappear...not good in a fight when I might need those indicators... :P All I can say is be patient. Matt Wagner seems to be a pretty squared away fellow that tries to keep us up to date on news. He says a patch is nearing completion. I beleive him. Ill give him the benefit of the doubt and a chance to get things fixed before I start looking for a rope. ;)

Jetson, I too have lost family. Its the lousiest thing that can happen in this life. But remember that God loves you both and one day you will be together again in an even better place; a wonderful hope. Spend every minute with her you can and talk. Be there for her like I wish I had been for my brother. Hold fast your faith and let it grow. May Gods peace be with you both as my prayers surely are. Life will go on; we will be here when you are able to come back.

I tend to agree. I cant make more than two or three passes before I get tagged. Then again, maybe thats the problem. I perhaps should do one fast pass and drop everything. But that doesnt leave much room for accuracy on my part. Hmmmm...I wonder how you could tweak that ingame. Is it hard coded? Or is there an ini file somewhere we can screw up?

Im talking about when I post an image on the forum in a thread. Like if I wanted to post an image right now, I would use the image button MJ has provided. But how do I size that image so that, for instance, it isnt so large. I tried HTML tags, but they dont work.

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I loved reading this post, what a hoot. Talk about a buncha charachters! :P I already explained this once but not to its entirety. I was once at a church whose preacher had license plates that said "SKYPILOT". I always thought that was kinda cool. Preachers are known by some as "skypilots", and it turned out, he actually was a small plane pilot. When it came time to figure out a moniker, I had always wanted to be a pilot but the only thing I flew was a pc, hence "pcpilot". Little minds make little connections I guess... Please keep in mind it has NOTHING to do with political correctness, hehe. I have a second rarely used nik given to me by my best freinds back in my wooley youth. I was hardcore redneck, country, rodeo, shotgun, two-fisted tequila sorta guy, who after a long nite of partying, didnt look so good in the morning. We were sitting around a campfire one particularily cold morning. I had a lousy nites sleep because the stars had really been spinning because of the booze and a rock under my sleeping bag was in my butt so I couldnt get comfortable all nite. I woke up, hair in disarray, sore, cranky, and some fool handed me a bowl of oatmeal, not my number one brealfast food. At the same time, someone snapped a picture and said I looked like an axe murderer. But Danial, my "best" friend, said "No, He looks like a hillbilly after a bad nite. He looks like "Racketyjack". Everybody cracked up. Me I just withdrew to my oatmeal grumbling how Id use an axe on the poor idiot that called me that. Well, that was all anyone needed of course...My first name is jeff and a lot of people know me as JB. So it wasnt hard for everyone to start calling me Jack, which my closest friends do to this day, some 20 years later. My other online name and email uses "Racketyjack". Long winded sucker aint I? Us southern boys love to tell a story, hehe. ;)

Man, youd think youd know better by now, lol! :P

Well, heres the MiG-15bis Hangar Screen. This plane was part of the F-86 Sabre pack. Work on the screens is going to slow down now due to work tommorrow. Wont get much done during the week. However, I will get these six images zipped and uploaded to Biohaz this week as soon as the website is fixed. I still am planning on doing screens for the B-57 Canberra, the AN-12BP Cub-A, and the MiG-17PFU.

Im really lovin this hehe... Capun, an email is on the way to you.

Hope the release version has a good NAVY skin, the old blue color. That plane looks sharp.;)

Capun, Ill zip the F2H and email it to you if I can get the file small enough. Its a 2.3MB High Res BMP unzipped. I'll PM you if I have any problems. Another note about the low-res B-66 screen...The preview jpg posted here doesnt look to good, but the actual ingame hanger screen isnt bad at all; looks good. Not quite as good as the High Res but perfectly usable. Also, I am working on the O-1E Birddog right now. Sure is hard to find good camo images to use...looking for a good hires Tigerstripe camo or woodland.

Here's the best one yet. Hope Capun likes it, I do...:) This one REALLY looks nice ingame.

Nah, Ima freak too I 'spose. Still working on a campaign off and on, now at 16 missions. Was flying up till last week when I scratched the CRAP outta my game disk. Now I gots to gets a 'nother one...:( Havent bothered to get latest patch update yet 'cause cant play game till CD is replaced. I did get the beta before I wanked my disc though. Sure love that Mustang.

HOLY MOLY! Sure wouldnt want to be in that house... I can see me now...walking to the window to let some air in...WHAAAM!!! An HH-1 eh? Ive seen H-2's on, not sure if Ive ever seen an H-1. Your lucky to have a useful skill to restore something like that though. Always loved the air museums. B)