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Flight Sim discussions; mostly on the core platform ( graphics and terrain, platform team, sim engine, geo tools and geo data, international, internal tools, technical art ) plus news on releases and updates, and the occasional tweaks and tips.

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2008 61

  1. New Job, New Blog
  2. Heads up, PTaylor leaving the building
  3. Cool Scenery Index site
  4. KJFK by FSDreamTeam released
  5. Available North American GA airports
  6. Another list of great places to visit
  7. FSX Gold
  8. For 2D Panel fans
  9. Freeware and affordable modeling tools for FSX
  10. Another aircraft developer hints at going "FSX only"; once current projects are off the books.
  11. Another developer commits to going "FSX only" in the future
  12. Available "True FSX" Freeware Aircraft Add-ons and FSX
  13. Another developer goes "FSX mostly" based on customer demand
  14. Excellent scenery library management post
  15. Two more Propliners for FSX
  16. Some really gorgeous sceneries and airports for FSX on the way
  17. More positive news for FSX
  18. Rocket Racing League
  19. Article on how to convert 3DSMax content for use with GMax
  20. Gamefest 2008 and the DirectX 11 announcement
  21. Rendering Engine Updates for TS2, or the dirt I can spill after the National Train Show demo ( animated characters )
  22. What is available at the MSDN ESP Developer Center
  23. Confused about FSX-Acceleration? What does it contain, and is it worth it.
  24. Intel CPU release cycle update
  25. Yaft
  26. A couple of sweet airports coming up
  27. More HW articles
  28. Interesting geo-site, map2explore.com
  29. Beautiful "classsic" airliner coming up
  30. Success of FSX and Future of the Franchise
  31. Really nice screenshots from some amazing add-ons
  32. Nice post measuring relative aircraft performance
  33. Have Acceleration? Like the Missions? How about a free bonus?
  34. Nice French bird due up for FSX
  35. Interesting "rumors" about the next-gen ATI and NV parts surfacing
  36. TrainSim2 to make an appearance
  37. Great FSX video using FTX
  38. Changes to this blog and my posting habits
  39. FSX Tip-Flight UI: User cannot interact with panels/views after loading saved flight in fullscreen (Vista, DX10, multi-mon, dual monitor)
  40. Holy FPS, Batman!
  41. Vista product page with magic screenies
  42. FSX Content Taxonomy
  43. ESP News:Developer Conference later this month and new ESP Dev Center on MSDN
  44. Caveat Emptor:FS9 port-overs may reduce your simming experience, Part II
  45. I just have to share
  46. Back of the envelope
  47. Guess who's back?
  48. “Holy Grail or Fools’ Errand”, Indeed!
  49. Vista SP1 review and rollout timeframe
  50. Updated:Issues that may affect 3rd party content for FSX and that will not be fixed in SP1
  51. Interview up at SimPilot
  52. GPU variants, performance envelopes, and being an informed consumer
  53. Last Post was 100th Blog post
  54. FSX Release Identifiers, so users can verify what they have installed
  55. Manual for F/A-18 VC in Acceleration
  56. Partial fix for the "w-key" cockpit view issue
  57. Aces Studio Organization:Yesterday and Today
  58. Great jobs available in Aces
  59. New Year, new role, new series of posts
  60. Four points about FSX and Blurries
  61. Why your 4G of RAM Windows 32-bit system may not report all of the 4G (even though it is in use )

2007 83

  1. Registry repair tool if you have installed more than 1 time and have troubles
  2. How to upgrade the propellers in FS9 aircraft for FSX-SP2
  3. DXDiag, DX versions, and what your computer can do
  4. Help for SP2 Menu Crash?
  5. Christmas Eve Holiday Wishes!
  6. FSX-SP2 SDK is available for download
  7. Trying to help with FSX-SP2 install issues
  8. FSX-SP2 is available for download!
  9. For real this time, Vista SP1 RC available for public download
  10. True FSX Planes
  11. FS9 Planes that work in Acceleration ( and by implication the "to be released" freely downloadable SP2 )
  12. FSX Perf Benchmark
  13. 4 HW reviews of interest to the FS community, and 1 comparo
  14. More reasons to not worry about DX10.1
  15. More on FSX-SP2(DX10) delay factors
  16. ESP Part III
  17. FSX-SP2 Beta posted
  18. More on ESP
  19. FSX-DX10 Info, Part III
  20. FSX-DX10 Info, Part II
  21. Microsoft ESP announced
  22. AVSim FanCon news
  23. Great Tool for AI carriers when using Acceleration
  24. Game Engine Design, Design Goals, and Choices
  25. 3 Transparency Fixes for older content with issues in Acceleration/SP2
  26. Maybe old news, but Windows Vista SP1 Beta is available for download
  27. DevCon Topics
  28. FSX-SP2(DX10) delay factors
  29. FSX-DX10 Info
  30. Acceleration and SP2
  31. FSX-SP2 Details post should be
  32. FSX-SP2 details post is delayed
  33. Vista OOM fix:Must have update from the mother-ship
  34. FSX-DX10:3rd progress report - just another Wednesday
  35. Platform performance Update:early reports on Fall CPUs is that they rock!
  36. Windows update ( XP and Vista ) for Intel multi-core processors.
  37. Friday the 13th is here, and so is the 2nd FSX-DX10 progress report
  38. Vista Appcompat update for FSX
  39. FSX SP1: The blog posts
  40. FSX Performance benchmarks by Toms' Hardware
  41. FSX Tip of the Week:Reporting those pesky content errors
  42. DX10 on XP: Round 2
  43. For those without broadband, PC Pilot has SP1 on CD
  44. Summer is here, and so is the start of info about FSX-DX10
  45. FSX and Win32 Process Address Space
  46. Focusing on the Blurries
  47. FSX Tip of the Week:Water slider and FPS costs
  48. SP1 Tip of the Week:AI at 80% max
  49. FSX:Tweak of the Week ( or 2 )
  50. SP1:Tweak of the Week ( or not )
  51. FSX Tower Controller Fix for non-English versions
  52. SP1 Tips
  53. This blog is not Support!
  54. Deleted the imminent post
  55. FSX SP1:New tweaks
  56. FSX SP1:SDK, SimConnect, and 3rd party fixes
  57. FSX SP1:Missions, MultiPlayer, and Misc Fixes
  58. FSX SP1:Preparing to Install
  59. FSX SP1 is now live!
  60. FSX SP1 News:AMD quote
  61. FSX SP1:Size of the download
  62. Tweak of the Week
  63. FSX SP1 in Final Test
  64. FSX SP1:Beta4 posted
  65. Moderated Blog comments and rules
  66. FSX SP1:Beta3 posted
  67. Heads up Vista FSX flyers – Vista multiple monitor fix now available!
  68. On a positive note
  69. Due to BLog spamming by a certain individual
  70. FSX SP1: Beta2 posted
  71. FSX SP1 News:Intel quote
  72. Two things, today is my birthday and we have posted FSX SP1 Beta to the beta forums
  73. FSX SP1 Update:Beta
  74. Blog posts:context is important
  75. 3rd party complications due to multiple FSX releases?
  76. Optimized for Vista does not mean DX10
  77. FSX:More on SLI and Multi-core
  78. Timeline Update:XP,DX9,DX10
  79. SP1 Status
  80. Why DX10 wasnt created on XP and why it isnt in XP
  81. What are the components of DX10
  82. The PC Industry, Multicore, and FSX ( with a little DX10 thrown in for good measure )
  83. FSX Progress Update - SP1 and DX10

2006 4

  1. FSX:Responding to Community Feedback
  2. FSX:Today and Tomorrow
  3. New job, new role - in Aces Studio
  4. VS SDK Community Documents