I haven't visited Yashico's website in quite a while, but, if it is really gone, wouldn't it be a good idea starting another "re-upload to SOH for preservation" drive? Yashico's aircrafts are all beautifully made, with a perfect detail/framerate balance. Besides, Yashico dedicated his production to uncommon, rare models as the F1M2 Pete, which features a better fps performance than the only other F1M2 model ever developed and uploaded here.
Although the majority of Japanese CFS2 plane designers posed several limitations to their work usage, perfectly legitimate and understandable, I think a preservation effort with proper crediting would be a tangible tribute to their master work. A way to keep saying "thank you!" to them.
Yashico's works are password protected. We could post his aircrafts and release their unzip passwords only after receiving a request e-mail, thus ensuring the user's identity is not a phony one. So far, one of SOH's primary concerns has always been protecting original creators' copyrights and wishes. Re-uploading at SOH is a good guarantee against all of the piracy we hear about on the net.
Besides, we can always try getting in touch with him and see if we get his permission to proceed.
By the same token, considering CFS2 is a 14 year-old application with an ever-shrinking court of estimators, I cannot see how anyone could successfully speculate on these models and make money out of them.
Cheers!
KH :ernae: