To: devnull@onion.rain.com (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) From: devnull@onion.rain.com (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) Reply-To: devnull@onion.rain.com (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) Sender: devnull@onion.rain.com (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) Return-Path: devnull@onion.rain.com (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) Errors-To: postmaster@onion.rain.com Precedence: bulk Bcc: hitech-sim-out Subject: Hitech Simulation Digest V2 : I28 Hitech Simulation Digest Volume 2 : Issue 28 Mon Apr 25 06:44:31 PDT 1994 Compilation copyright (C) 1994 Jeff Beadles Send submissions to "hitech-sim@onion.rain.com" Send add/drop requests to "majordomo@onion.rain.com" Archives are available via ftp from neon.rain.com [199.2.109.18] Today's Topics: F14 Update notes from MPS MORGAN@WVUGEO.WVNET.EDU Laydown Overshooting? "Bob Buckley - MSS bbuckley@grimmy" FST Demo uploaded stenger@tron.gun.de (Joerg Stenger) ------------------------------------------------------------ From: MORGAN@WVUGEO.WVNET.EDU Subject: F14 Update notes from MPS Hi all, Grabbed this off CI$. Scott in WV Morgan@wvugeo.wvnet.edu _________________________begin______________________________________ The new version of FLEET DEFENDER F-14 is now in QA being tested before uploading to the the boards. In the meantime I thought you might like to know what has been addressed in the current patch. FLEET DEFENDER: F-14 TOMCAT 4/18/94 Release Version: 1.1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for buying FLEET DEFENDER F-14 TOMCAT. MicroProse, Inc. 180 LakeFront Drive Hunt Valley, MD 21030 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes & Fixes as of 4/18/94 1. *** Heading drift has been fixed!!! *** 2. If you Request Help (Shift F1) multiple times the assisting aircraft won't be occupying the same space. 3. Enemy chutes fall slower. 4. Planes will leave carrier at about the same speed we do. 5. *** Padlock Jitters are gone! *** 6. Afterburners will be on at correct times with other planes. 7. If you disable training in Oceana, you will no longer crash right away when you have to take off from the carrier. 8. Planes will not circle the first waypoint at the start of a mission (unless told too). 9. E key will work only if training is on, if if Easy Mode landing is on. 10. Your wingman's lights will turn off when he is attack. 11. You will no longer padlock dead missiles. 12. Button 4 (on joystick) will now break lock (K key). (Previously L key) 13. You can no longer raise your gear on the deck. 14. Guns have been made harder for authentic weapon effect setting. 15. No crash log messages after ejection. 16. Planes will take off when they should (No more meeting the second half of a strike group leaving the carrier as you return). 17. Helicopters will land on the carrier. 18. Higher level enemys will use Allied strategies in knife fight. 19. Higher level enemys will stick around much longer. 20. *** All wingmen in a group will match leaders skill (instead of being average) *** 21. AIs can fire Phoenix missiles at same range we can. 22. Explosions will take place on top of land. 23. Carrier guns will not fire in "Opposites" training mission. 24. Stategic Strike in Fighting Withdrawl has been fixed. What you were escorting didn't match what the mission was looking for. The other strategic strike missions are correct. 25. The Rush Hour missions in El Dorado Canyon have been tweaked. 26. Removed "bing-bongs" from buttons. 27. Sped up debriefing; holding mouse on button now cycles the list. 28. Fixed RIO/pilot wing reversals on edit pilot box. 29. Medal of Honor will now appear in medals box. 30. Adlib Gold digital wrapper sounds fixed. 31. Added six missing planes to enemies list in scramble screen. 32. Fly over option on missions ending in death has been removed from top two difficulty levels. 33. Not enough memory error reporting more robust. 34. Pilot rank properly updated in HOF. 35. RIO rank now is the same as pilot rank everywhere. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Best, Quentin/MicroProse ------------------------------- From: "Bob Buckley - MSS bbuckley@grimmy" Subject: Laydown Overshooting? -- --PART-BOUNDARY=.19404221013.ZM9353.mss.ctaeng.com Encoding: 8 TEXT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I just started Tornado and am consistently going long on the laydown method. This occurs with both retard and non-retard bombing, and somethims with the runway denial stuff too. Why does this happen if the delivery is supposed to be acturately computer controlled? How do I deal with it? Thanks! --PART-BOUNDARY=.19404221013.ZM9353.mss.ctaeng.com Encoding: 8 text X-Zm-Content-Name: .signature Content-Type: text/plain ; charset=us-ascii =========================================================================== 'Bwana' Bob Buckley CTA, Inc. Sr. Software Engineer 5670 Greenwood Plaza Blvd Visual Systems Englewood, CO 80111 (303) 889-1207 (303) 889-1200 bbuckley@ctaeng.com (303) 889-1398 Fax =========================================================================== --PART-BOUNDARY=.19404221013.ZM9353.mss.ctaeng.com-- ------------------------------- From: stenger@tron.gun.de (Joerg Stenger) Subject: FST Demo uploaded Hi all, I have uploaded "Joerg's Flight-sim V1.0" to neon. It can be found in /pub/hitech-sim/fst (right, Jeff?). For running it, you need at least the files fly1_0.zip and jfs1_0.zip. If you have a SoundBlaster or 100% compatible soundcard you can also download sounds.zip. As I wrote in my previous posts, you shouldn't expect too much but I think, it's not too bad for a beginner . Since we have "our personal flight-engeneer", I wanted Stuart to verify the F-16 flight-model I designed. Unfortunately the files I sent him got scrambled, so there was no possibility for him to take a look at it. The flight-model, as it is implemented right now, makes the F-16 very hard to fly; if you are unconfident with it, you can edit the file "f16.fmd" (don't forget to make a back-up first). Here are some excerpts from the readme: [...] I have created 3 different theatres that can take place in this world: 3.1 Airlines ============ Always the same story : The crew on board suffers from a disease and it is up to you to fly the bird. Depending on what menu item you choose you either have to fly from Airport 1 to Airport 2 or vice versa. From both airports starts a 747 at approximately the same time you do; if you don't want to occupy yourself with IFR-navigation, just follow the Jumbo. If you want to use IFR, please refer to the file ifr.txt; there you will find all frequences. 3.2 Carrier Attack ================== Somehow a heavily defended carrier task-force has sneaked up to our coast. Intel reports that the last know location is about 50 km south of our Airfield 1. Your task is simple : Take off from Airfield 1, head south and destroy the task force. 3.3 Ground Strike ================= Rebels/Russians/Drug-smugglers [chose your prefered evil] have captured one our Landing-Strip and with it a number of F-15s. The strip is located about 70km in the east of Airbase 1. One of our agents has managed to install a tiny radio beacon that transmits on NDB frequency 509.00 MHz. Your task is to find the strip, destroy all F-15s, ground-units and buildings *except* the tower where our agent has hidden. 3.4 Air Show ============ This is my favourite one. It's Sunday and you decided to visit the air show. At the airfield, some folks do a race against the aircrafts with their cars. While you are watching them, the speakers announce that the owner of the ticket with number 4.5.67 has won a free ride in a Sopwith Camel. You take a closer look at your ticket and yes, you got that number... 4. Flight-Models ================ 4.1 The Jet =========== The Jet is a two-engine propeller machine which is very forgiving with respect to pilot's mistakes. It has a maximum speed of 468 knots. Because of the low thrust/weight ratio the Jet requires a long runway and needs some time to react on the steering inputs. 4.2 The F-16 ============ Unfortunately it is not possible to simulate with FST a G-limiter like the real F-16 has. The consequence is that you will exceed the structural G-limit very often which causes the plane to disassemble itself in flight. Although I already reduced the power you should fly it very carefully. FST also does not know the difference between afterburner and ''dry'' thrust. If you have set the power to 100% you are already in the 5th afterburner stage. All that leads to an ugly behaviour of the F-16, always keep an eye on your speed. 4.3 The Sopwith Camel ==================== The Camel is one of the most famous aircrafts in WWI. It is a small biplane without airbrakes, flaps or retractable gear. The propeller engine can push the camel to a maximum speed of 151 knots. The undercarriage is very robust. [...] 9. Credits ========== I want to thank Keir "Tao" Novik and Bernd "Bicycle Repair Man" Eggenstein for their suggestions. Special Thanks to Chera "Napalm" Bekker for Beta-testing and prove-reading. 10. ''Final Words'' ================== Joerg's Flight-Sim V1.0 was created with the FLIGHT SIM TOOLKIT (FST), a fabulous program by Domark. During constructing, I discovered that designing was much more fun than flying in it. However, constructing was very time-intensive. I can honestly recommend buying FST, if you are willing to spend some time with it. The sim itself contains nothing spectacular and, to be honest, it is quite simplistic. (Here I should write: ''The best freeware-sim you've ever seen'' but I hate advertising ) However I plan to release ''patches'' in the future, which will add more features like new planes, improved flight-models, new scenarios and SVGA. I am very interested in your opinion about the scenarios I created. Please send me your impressions/suggestions/criticism via e-mail. Remember, if I don't get any feed-back I can't improve anything. Enjoy, Joerg "Dancer" Stenger stenger@tron.gun.de -- Internet: stenger@zeus.uni-duisburg.de | Z-Netz: stenger@tron.gun.de ## CrossPoint v2.93 ## ------------------------------- [[ End of digest Volume 2 : Issue 28 ]]