Feuerfalke

Yes, that's an A-10A. It's probably LockOn/FCs used for this demonstration, as there is probably no flyable F-15C in DCS:A-10C either ;)

Interesting! Thanks for sharing! IMHO some airplanes are art in themselves. The Super-Constellation comes to my mind, for example. Beautiful plane.

Get Vista or Win7 64bit, a fast processor, fast board and fast RAM. Graphics card for BlackShark is not that important, unless you are going to use multiple monitors. For BlackShark it doesn't make a big difference between dual- and quad-core AFAIK.

Two odd things in your story: 1. LockOn used a program to check your CD. You didn't need to activate it via internet, code or anything. So how can you have only one activation left? :huh: 2. If you uninstall FC2/DCS you will be asked if you want to deactivate your copy. If you do, you won't lose an activation. If you don't reinstalling won't cost you an activation either, unless your changed your PC in the meanwhile. Is it possible that you're mixing something up here?

Check out the description for the patch: As you wrote yourself, you have LockOn 1.01, so this patch obviously doesn't work for you. Try to uninstall the patch. If LockOn doesn't run then, you probably have to reinstall your LockOn-game. LockOn 1.1 is the basic LockOn + "Flaming Cliffs" addon, btw. You can buy this addon separately.

Very nice teaser! Love the ending motto. "Get ready to get ugly."

It's a 15pin gameport plug (analog), but AFAIK they only chose this connection because it is a standard format. They did the same for the connector between base and stick. They used a PS/2-connection there, but as with the gameport, I doubt you can connect your stick to a PS/2-port and expect it to work as some valid device.

AFAIK it only helps you if you have a Cougar Stick. The TM Warthog uses a separate USB-connection for each device. I doubt they will have ports for auxiliary devices like the Cougar. I doubt you can connect a Cougar-Throttle to a gameport or gameport-USB-adapter. Even if you can, directly connecting the throttle to the PC, you won't be able to program it, as the complete hardware for programming and saving the programming is in the Stick. So this is a good offer, if you e.g. have your throttle broken or plan to have a bunch of parts to make your Cougar life longer.

Sounds like a broken mic or possibly a connection error.

Wow, this is great news! I played most titles of the Total War-Series, but I just loved Shogun most of all and I still have the original cover and CD. Great game, great soundtrack.

You should update your DirectX and if that doesn't help try a newer graphics driver.

For BlackShark overclocking definitely made a difference, especially with dual or multicore processors in combination with Windows Vista/Win7.

This is actually a really good example of what I posted. This software was designed by a dev-team hired by the GB-government. They programmed the "game" and used it for training and advertising, much like the US-Army did with the Americas Army shooter. They released it to the public with the note, that you already payed for it - so it's even free to play. This agreement, however, does not grant you the right to decompile, modify or copy the sourcecode. The devs or the government still holds the right on this and cracking the coding still is a crime. Transfering back to the airplane-issue, this is much the same: You are allowed as a private owner to buy e.g. a Spitfire, if you find one available. But you are not allowed to copy the design and use the data to build your own 1:1 replica without permission, as this design is still owned by the Supermarine (or whoever has the rights now). Not for a real plane and not in a simulation, depending on how closely the company sticks to their rights.

So you just volunteered to post a first hand detailed review! :clap:

I actually like Steam. It's uncomplicated, fast in downloading and installing patches automatically, even offering automatic mod and editor installations for games you have or are interested in. I also got a lot of indie-games this way. I use Steam for years now - never had a problem with it - even in the 6 months without an internet connection. Just switch to offline mode and there you go. I have a hard time understanding all the complaining about Steam, especially as most of the complains are superficial issues like being forced to stay online and steams monopoly position or similar, which are mostly based on user errors or hear-say.

I got one of the first that my retailer received. First production is always subject to small issues. One of my MFDs flickered when first connected, then stopped working after about an hour. The replacement works perfect. They look very nice and you can vary their setup largely, from simply putting them on desktop to using the built-in holes to fix it in your virtual cockpit. They register as gaming devices and you can program them ingame. You can adjust illumination by key-combination on the MFD itself or with the drivers. AFAIK the new TM-software that will be released with the TM Warthog can program the MFDs with macros if needed. They also allow sheets of paper to be placed as "monitor". What sounds as a placeholder first can become pretty handy e.g. when using the MFDs for custom functions in BlackShark, FS or IL2. Some sheets for this implementation are coming with the MFDs, others are already available on the internet.

Actually, they do hold the rights. Even if you hire a simple designer, even for a basic logo for your own company or even personal use, you pay for it, you may use it, but the designer will remain owner of the design and may dictate you how to use it, where and when to stop using it. Fair or not, that's nothing odd or bad national law. At the very best, it's bad management, as these things could be treated otherwise in given contracts. Same is for Falcon4, but not the way you interpreted it. The Falcon4-code is created by people as well and no matter who gave the money for it, no matter what could be done now, the code belongs to the company from the original design. Even though it is now owned by Hasbro, the attitude stays the same: No changes to core elements. That's why Falcon AF still looks like 1998. ;)

Depends on the daytime. :P Nice job, Ghostrida9! :thumbup:

Description from that offer: Item Weight: 599 g LOL

Well, if I have to make a point when posting a picture I guess it may be that you both may be "right". The serials reserved for the A-10"B" may have never been used for the aircraft, as they never entered (real) "service".

It's pretty cool they managed to get Ermey for this scene. Gave the pilot for the series a nice start ;)

Really? Which aircombat planes do you know of, that travel around the world for a fight? X-plane and FS-series are civilian aircraft simulators that are designed to simulate long-range flights, intercontinental flights or simply sight-seeing-tours in your own neighborhood or at any place of interest. DCS is designed to simulate air-to-air combat or air-to-ground combat. As combat usually takes place in a rather limited area, the current system is much more suited for this simulation than a world-map. Naturally the interests of both categories are largely different.