Lexx_Luthor

Sounds like you hit the invisible wall near the map edge. Were you flying near the map edge? Next time it happens, just bank and turn away from the wall back toward map center and see if everything gets right again.

F-104 If you know about P-38 vs Zero, you know how to do F-104.

pfft They used to do it with slide rules. I love the way 99 turns to the runway for takeoff and the once glorious California sun shines off the pure metal fuselage -- they can't do that anymore.

How did I miss this? I loved The Tron but it didn't effect me much but still very inspiring -- and not too "disney." I recently was looking to get it on DVD but it seems the only one is very expensive now. Jedi (page 1):: The earliest I know of is the 1976 Whoopisode The Deadly Assassin. They even called it a Matrix. I have that whoopisode on DVD; its not exactly the best but it did alot with the background story of the Time Lord home planet of Gallifrey. Somebody may have done the idea earlier. Anybody here know? Add me to The List. Never saw ET either.

76, I'm repoasting this to be at the top of your new page. The later version:

I dunno fellas. One of our Argentine members poasted that Argentina cut back its military after the 2001 currency event down there. So maybe they can't do the Invasion thing anyways. I have no clue. I can only guess that the Argentine military is a shadow of what it was in the 1980s. Now, so too with UK I suppose. Anyways, Argentina and UK are both insolvent, and worse, in debt to giant banks. But so is everybody.

DBS about 2k I think. But give 6k a shot and lemme know. I made it 1 SF ago. Nobody tried it I suppose. "...will be done in 2 SF's."

FC did you see my reply attempt at the bottom of last page?

Yak-50 was a monster, far outperforming the lower quality MiG-15 and -17, and was designed for night ops from the start, but MiG was cheap and a bit earlier. Yak almost made it with this. Yak-50, 3 pages ~> http://prototypes.free.fr/yak50/yak50-1.htm The pot of these early prototypes were all far more advanced than MiG's stuff, and potentially the best fighters of their time, as they all used the the greatest engine of the time in high quality airframes. That DogSabre~esque 1951 Su-15, among others ~> http://prototypes.free.fr/t6/t6-1e.htm SOME of these pages have more than one page. Use the little blue arrow boxes to nav between sub-pages. Its a very difficult site to navigate, but works well with BabelFish online translator. More... MiG prototypes ~> http://prototypes.free.fr/ye8/ye8-1.htm Soviet Rocket planes ~> http://xplanes.free.fr/florov/afr-1.html Ramjets, endless reading here ~> http://xplanes.free.fr/stato/stato-1.html Fairey Delta ~> http://prototypes.free.fr/fd2/fd2-1.htm

Yea that's the early version. That is a cool bird indeed; very well engineered. Get Yefim's book. Shucks I'll buy it for ya its about 30$ at TEH AMAZON just PM me. It has fantastic cockpit shots using test coordinates, and stuph on other La jets. La-190:: French site on La jets ~> http://xplanes.free.fr/lavo/arl-11.html , works well with BabelFish complete web page translator.

Woa, that is Awsim. That's the early version. Love it. :good: As for good looks, czech out the La-190, just for czeching out purposes, since the -190's engine was a failure.

Interesting thanks.

2 moons ago

I think the new DBS map was over 2k, and with no tile left behind!!

That is obsolete but you can download it as a test map, with blank colour coded tiles (SF1) (6 Million Meter Map) See if it works. It has flattened airbases setup if I recall. My chronic problem is I can't tile terrain worth a zinc nickel. Since then I am supposed to be working on a 10k map initially based off 3dem, infinitely more accurate, and containing LeMay's Ring of Fire surrounding USSR, last year...you remember... Merry Christmas from North Pole #3 ...that thing. If I were to upload it, it can only have blank tiles unless we poked around. I'd love to get back on this thing if can be useful to others, like a strategic level campaign, maybe with some compromise concepts to make it easily playable and enjoyable.### Careful: KMD has a fascinating bug in the X map coordinate beyond about 2000km. You'll see it. I can work around it. ------ ### footnote: I'm guessing a good computer SacSim would be halfway between an air combat JetSim and Silent Hunter games, detailed modelling of manning ECM gear, nav, bombing, in addition to the classical joystick. When you think about it, Silent Hunter is a strategic interception game, with unguided missiles, and guns on deck; something for everyone. Granted I never tried SH, but I've heard some about it.

Not great. SF1 here. I used 4550 and it worked but severely limited performance. You need a real gaming card. SF2 may be perform worse, or better, with 4550. Dunno. I took an old Athalon cpu fan and screwed it into the 4550 heatsink. Kept it completely cool to the touch.

Blake's 7 I said it. I saw some of that, about 13 blakasodes. Pretty good but I never finished watching that series.

ahhh ezlead, the Developers set up a time loop. Leela:: How clever. Doc:: Its criminal! Question if anybody knows: What is the home world of The Developers?

Thanks fellas. At least in the past, there was cornball sci fi, and the real tries. Today, I perceive high budget fails....thinking Hollywood here. The recent sci-fi I love is all non-Hollywood -- mainly Canada and NZ. Babylons~5 I see as USA but not Hollywood, as it seems Joe Michael S....as it seems J.M.S. doesn't seem to fit in Hollywood, so I liked his series. FC:: I wish they would review LEXX. That would be a riot.

You guys crack me up. Ya'll just watched Skylane (sp?). I never heard of it. I just got my Robinson Crusoe on Mars on DVD, great survival sci-fi for the 1960s, well the first half anyways, the 2nd half with the aliens was somewhat okay in concept I think. Oddly, the transition from 1st part (survival) to 2nd part (aliens) is the best and most intense part of the film. Can't beat Paul Mantee in this one. He was a furniture mover before and after (hence the good build), with only acting classes before he did this movie, but he had intitiative and good directing. Great commentary on the DVD. Go classical and you'll never go back. There will be much less Whaling and Pulling of Teeth.

Star Wars -- original, stand alone complete film with no camp sequels nor "prequels," as a timeless old story in a high budget intersteller vastness pushing science fiction to a higher dimension. Kelly's Heroes -- Tank pwns Bank The US and German Armies private enterprises were NOT after wads of banker debt backed paper "notes" in saddle bags like Hollywood movies normally plot it. Clint Eastwood's classical films seem to focus on gold. All Quiet on the Western Front -- the original movie, and novel, of all time, ever made. Worst movie? Almost all of them, but as let downs go after earlier favorites:: Return Jedi, Failsafe, etc... --- ezlead yea vampires are so over cooked...but...I just got Tom Baker's State of Decay (1970s Doctor Who) and the new twist is the sole surviving giant vampire, leader of a defeated ancient race that long ago battled the Time Lords across the universe. The old rusted Earth scout ship programmed to pierce the heart of the awakening giant, and fuel tanks filled with blood to feed the healing beast, were for me some fascinating concepts in this whoopisode.

Lemme try that again, I always write sloppy. Sorry. You need a distinct 2nd stage powered flight visual effect. The "in flight" effect should be confined to the coasting after the 2nd stage burns out...or after 1st stage burns out, if there is only one stage. Something like that.

The "in flight" effect also covers the un-powered coasting flight as well. Test it out. You need a distinct 2nd stage visual effect. Big smokey solid fuel boosters make a giant cloud, then jump off, leaving a much smaller 2nd stage exhaust for the remainder of powered flight. Now, TK's sustainers work physically, as can be tested by setting up overly fantastic thrust or acceleration for the 2nd stage and watching the huge ramp in acceleration at staging. But the 2nd stage visual effects have never worked, at least not in SF1. S-200 staging...

Woa server great video thanks. I love how the trail gets bright when it extends into the sunshine at high altitudes. And the 2nd stage exhaust spreading out into thin air near space is sweet. How to do this over the SF, with the booster edit -- sustainer *visual* effects/emitters never having worked, or did TK fix that in The SF2 sometime? Here's another with wild spread... ~>

TX. the souls manning the FAA, military, etc... are mostly just normal, real life, men and women, like everybody else. They never look up. Nobody ever really does. There is no system in place for .gov "experts" to offer discussion of visual effects like this in our skies. Anyways, few if any official "experts" bother to look up at the sky, and watch it, for hours and hours, over years and years. Instead, they eat, drink, sleep, make babies, drive to work, etc... normal stuff. If you are interested about this stuff, get your butt out and watch the sky for over a year, especially at sunsets. You will generally need "continental" winter weather with warm fronts, a clear view of the horizon, and east-west high altitude commercial traffic routes in your area to see this sunset effect. If that takes too long, you have to trust the weirdos that watch the sky for hours and hours at a time, over many years and years. A pair of binoculars, 7 x 50 minimum, is helpful in "zooming in" at things you see in the sky that catch your attention, like the briefly shining star that can often be seen at the tip of a contrail in the sunset at 200 miles distance. That "rocket plume" in the Panic video is just that -- sun bouncing off metal or reflective paint. Very few men or women have ever seen it, because they have never seen the sky. Kinda sad in a way. TX::