mikew

I don't think those bands imprinted themselves on me like they did for you guys. 38 Special,Journey and Toto sound pretty much the same when played one after the other. I loved that Boston album when it came out! It was basically one guy wasn't it? ..and the ZZ Top videos were always good value.

Hey, I actually won that hours earlier. I even had my answer in musical form: It wasn't my fault I had to do something else before I could post it.

Seem to be digging a hole for myelf here, but another 10 years back...

and 10 or so years even earlier

and 10 or so years earlier

Well, close enough to the weekend for me...

Great to see!

Wow! It's a balmy +20F here with no wind to speak of. Need to start getting the BBQ gear ready...

OK, thanks. If I enable the same debugging as last time (see the link to the winehq ticket above), I just get the following type of output if I move the joystick: 0025:trace:hid_report:process_device_event Received action 600 0025:trace:hid_report:process_hid_report Processing Request 0025:trace:hid_report:process_device_event Received action 600 0025:trace:hid_report:process_device_event Received action 600 0025:trace:hid_report:process_device_event Received action 600 002b:trace:hid_report:hid_internal_dispatch IOCTL_HID_READ_REPORT 002b:trace:hid_report:hid_internal_dispatch IOCTL_HID_READ_REPORT 0025:trace:hid_report:process_device_event Received action 600 0025:trace:hid_report:process_hid_report Processing Request 002b:trace:hid_report:hid_internal_dispatch IOCTL_HID_READ_REPORT 0025:trace:hid_report:process_device_event Received action 600 0025:trace:hid_report:process_hid_report Processing Request Since I pretty much always use a joystick with Windows, it probably explains why I haven't seen the exploding plane phenomena before.

Thanks for the Beer Cheese recipe! ...but I think I'll continue to enjoy them separately.

I've had another look and while the joystick is found, it doesn't do anything in TFXplorer except disabling the arrow keys. The joystick works fine with TAW which also uses Wine. Running TFXplorer after TAW just highlights how wonderful the TFXplorer rendering is. If only the two could be combined... The only problem left with running TAW in Wine without changing the default settings is how the 2D windows are handled. Once flying around in dgVoodoo, I haven't run into any stability problems, but pressing the 'Del' key to see the map usually results in a crash. One new experience with TFXplorer is having the plane spontaneously explode. I don't recall seeing that before. All I can do afterwards is F12 Smartview to toggle between the bits of debris.

It's a while since I wrote that, but yes, things have changed....and generally for the better. The x64 version seems to work OK now, and the joystick is indeed recognised: found HID "SDL Madcatz Mad Catz V.1 Stick" axis 0130 (0007): -32768-32767 axis 0131 (0008): -32768-32767 axis 0132 (0009): -32768-32767 axis 0135 (000A): -32768-32767 axis 0139 (000B): 0-8 button 0901 (0000) button 0902 (0001) button 0903 (0002) button 0904 (0003) button 0905 (0004) button 0906 (0005) button 0907 (0006) did1st.dat not opened; no patches will be considered trying to load .dat file ... identified an F-22 Total Air War .dat file loading .dat directory loading 19 directory names loading 19 file extensions extracting 10438 files .dat loaded successfully Direct3D 9 (SDK version 32) trying to create GPU context (8x AA, windowed, pure hardware T&L) 16x anisotropic filtering selected missing 3\BALL_3.3 but for some reason it still doesn't work, although if the joystick is plugged in the arrow keys don't work either for control. At least I can I can start the engines now as long as I have a US keyboard selected. The game.cfg was missing, so I created one with a single entry 'CONTROL=1' but that has no effect. Maybe it needs some other parameter?

What happened to the Green Bay Packers this season? I'm guessing from the huge stockpile of cheese: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/6/28/17515188/us-cheese-surplus-billion-pounds ..they didn't do very well.

Yes, those cost extra...but DLC is where it's at these days like the karaoke machine module from VEAO that's needed for renderings of "You've lost that loving feeling". From watching those videos I totally get how rewarding DCS can be in creating camaraderie between a group of people that can invest the time to take it seriously. Unfortunately, that's not me. The only online gaming I used to do was Mechwarrior3/TAW/Typhoon after coming home from the pub.

Has DCS World got a Beach Volleyball module yet? It sounds like it needs one.

You're a tough crowd to please. I agree that not much effort goes into producing 'new' WW2 documentaries for channels like Discovery/History/NatGeo. The limited WW2 footage is going to be used over and over. When planes and ships are involved, I'm happy to gloss over the fact that they aren't necessarily authentic. In 'The Battle of the River Plate' from 1956, the Graf Spee is 'played' by the American cruiser USS Salem where no attempt at all was made to cover over US markings etc. It doesn't detract from my enjoyment one bit.

Isn't there some treaty bannng 'weapons of mass disgustion''? Maybe the Manhattan Project was set up to develop a more acceptable alternative.

Yes, but thanks to the Babylonians, we only have 360 degrees in a circle. So, that heading must mean that the pilot has been told to land in another dimension, probably full of dinosaurs and stuff. Sounds like an awesome book!

I was thinking more in terms of military airfields. I can't remember a manouvre anything like your overhead approach when landing at Heathrow in a 767. Would be cool though... Runway 39? I'm sure that's just a joke told to rookie pilots, the equivalent of been sent to the stores for a tin of tartan paint on your first day as an apprentice.

Are there standard names for airport traffic patterns? and can the pattern vary between airports, countries etc? They may do things differently in the Caucasus. I'm fairly tolerant of incorrect details, but get annoyed by bad physics, eg in a book I've just been reading, it had something like 'the satellite stationed 1000 miles above New York'. It ruined what was otherwise quite a good book. I don't mind if the physics is totally made up like in Star Trek's warp drive as long as they don't go into too much detail of how it 'works'. What was ridiculous was Kirk fixing the aforementioned warp drive in one of the reboot movies by climbing inside it and kicking a vital component into place. 😠

Thanks for posting! A pity there wasn't more on DiD, but they were just a developer. I almost wish I'd got involved with the games industry back in the day, but I guess it wasn't all fun.

Yes, one should always clear temp internet files after a browsing session. I don't get that particular problem using Chrome, so it's probably the fault of Firefox.

Tooling around in the P-51 or A-10 is about all I've done in DCS as well, but that was ages ago so there may be updates. I may fire it up again if I get any time over the weekend.

This is Firefox on Linux, so I'm not sure I want to mess with any settings or it won't work at all. Easier just to zoom in or out until the problem goes away... Thanks for your input. There's more to fonts than meets the eye.

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