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As I understand it, neither helmet contractor was fired. VSI who won the contract initially were having a lot of problems. BAE who lost the initial bid stepped in and said they could proceed in parallel (they do the Eurofighter helmet amongst others so know what they are doing) to create an alternate. Further down the line, VSI have (maybe?) got their act together, and Lockheed have agreed to stop funding the BAE alternate. Probably some politics in the decision as well...

If you've bought it from Steam, all you need is the serial number provided. Open up Steam and start the A-10C download. As soon as it gets to the point of downloading, pause it. In the library, right-click on the A-10C link in your list of games and go to something along the lines of "View CD key". Probably a good idea to save it to a text file for later reference. You can then right-click on the library link again and go to "Delete Local Content..." to get rid of the bit it had downloaded/started to install. Then you just download DCS World, and the DCS A-10C download (1.2.1 or latest etc) from the DCS website and use your Steam CD key. Hope that helps.

Played a lot of BF2 back in the day. Sadly BF3 is also for consoles... and EA have a habit of never finishing off/fixing bugs in the damn games. BF2 with destructible terrain/buildings would be ideal.

Yeah, I thought all retail was D2. Anyone interested in seeing OC results: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=264874

Hmm, thanks for the advice. Slightly annoyed I sat on the fence during the Steam Christmas sale not sure which way to go. Though from memory the Steam prices may not have even matched regular DVD price... Current UK prices: Steam Arma II #19.99 or DVD #12.89 (incl. del from Play) OA #19.99 or DVD #14.99 (incl. del from Play) CO #29.99 Edit: Not sure what's wrong with the Pound symbol??? I've put '#' in for the Pound symbol.

Can anyone say whether it is better to buy the DVD, or Steam version (Arma II, OA, plus DLC), assuming any price difference is ignored? If you buy the DVDs, how do you deal with the BAF and PMC addons which are 'digital download' only? Thanks!

Indeed :) This the one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVXLY-u-SdA&hd=1

Might be worth checking Ebay, probably find some a bit cheaper than that.

Nice. Thanks. Anyone know how you download it as a PDF?

The reason I was wanting the download (similar to the Ka-50 videos on DCS site) was to avoid YouTube's compression :)

I may have missed it, but I'm sure Wags said the producers notes would be put up for download. Anyone know when that's going to happen?

US$35 according to the website: http://www.newhavendisplay.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=22_131 (Digikey: £40.59 for the UK, or US$45 for the US...you guys have it so good). Looking at the actual image a few pages back, it looks like the bottom row of characters are actually slightly smaller than the top. Producers note #2 shows the same thing :/

Haha, nice :D I was bored and just had a quick search and found this: http://www.tecpro.net/Downloads/Character_Displays.pdf Gives a list of their different character LCD sizes (including the character sizes). They actually do a 16 x 2 with 4.84 x 9.66mm characters!

They are available: From: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9052 Not sure how they fit size-wise vs the real thing. (or how clear they are to read...) And your work is impressive!