tiger1962
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True, every 2 years from FS98 to FSX (in 2006). I think we got 4 years between versions this time due to Xbox console's update cycle.
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True, every 2 years from FS98 to FSX (in 2006). I think we got 4 years between versions this time due to Xbox console's update cycle.
M$ had a history of releasing a new flight sim every two to four years. MSFS (2020) was hailed as a 10-year flight sim, but it proved to be popular and with M$ being the primary partner, they are going back to releasing a new flight sim every two to four years. They did the same thing with Windows 10, hailed as being the last version of Windows, but now we have Windows 11 and Windows 12 is in development. That's my opinion, nothing more.
thomas_mac
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The 2024 Xbox Games Showcase is on June 9th at 10am PT where we should be getting more information on MSFS2024. Very excited!
Navy Chief
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Prices have really shot up. When I bought my M.2. drives last year, in advance of receiving a new PC, the prices were almost half what they are now. NC
Cazzie
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I'll get it, will have my son install another 2 TB programable SSD for it like I have for MSFS 2020. Nothing but what's required goes on this rocket box. All other programs are on my old computer, which in itself is no lightweight. I've had every one since FS98, why not, what else can a 78 year old man do? Living a dream, albeit in AI.
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jmig
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What an old man can do is keep his brain active and working by using MSFS(any version) to relive or live vicariously some of the good things in life. As I type this I am listening to SpaceX 4th flight attempt. It keeps me moving and living. Keep it up Cazzie!
Cazzie
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John,
Ten years ago I could ride a bicycle 100 miles. Today I am lucky to walk 1 mile with my rollator! I tell people to enjoy their 60s, it's the last decade of mid-life. Once you hit 70, you hit what my grandmother told me was the worst sickness she ever had, that "da*ned old age"! And she wasn't lying, it's progressive and in the end fatal. But God blessed me with a good noggin and adept hands, and the ability to read and interpret, and write so others could read. In my life I have enjoyed all sports save golf (most frustrating game I ever attempted), studied the heavens as an amateur astronomer (still do, have a Celestron C-8 telescope). And I also love the inner world as much as the outer world, as I have a Wolfe-Deberg light microscope. And of course I love photography and take images with a Nikon D5500 DSLR using all my devices. And my first love of flying things was not airplanes, it was birds and I am still an avid bird watcher. I love all things in nature. This time of year I love to roll my computer chair into my open back door and watch fireflies (we call them "lightning bugs") emerge from the ground starting around 8:30 and fly to the trees to mate. There is a new brood doing this every night up through July, always at dusk dark. This shot won me a first at a photo contest in the Nature category, also netted me $250.00, that's always good.
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Works for me. I have never been that keen on staying on topic. Nice shots to be sure.
We are all just killing time until more news out. I saw a bird fly in front of my car upon landing today. I recently mastered landing an f-16, the angle of attack, body and wing structure was identical to an F16. It stopped me in my tracks in aw. I never noticed things like that before. The feet even looked like wheels.
I cant help but think that the airframe of a crow or bird inspired the shape of the f16s delta wing. Even its giant head looked just like the bubble canopy.
I cant help but think that the airframe of a crow or bird inspired the shape of the f16s delta wing. Even its giant head looked just like the bubble canopy.
Cazzie
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Tom,
As I stated birds were my first love in my pre-school days. I had three color books of birds of the USA (Yellow, Blue, and Red), I grew up in a very rural county (Caswell, NC) and always could be found looking at birds and IDing them. My 2nd grade teacher (Mrs. Thelma Lemmon) was so inspired by my knowledge of birds, at the end of the year she gave me a huge Birds Of North America tome by Audubon. I still have and use it, it is my bird Bible. I love all, but my favorites are Goldfinches. I love watching the males go through their color molt beginning in late March and early April from the color of a female Goldfinch to their vibrant yellow and returning to their female colors after the breeding season, which began this month. Here's a image I took of an Eastern White-Breasted Nuthatch walking down an oak tree in my yard early this morning at sunrise. They are small birds, wren sized, and omnivorous as they eat insects and seeds. They are well known for storing sunflower seeds in cracks of the trees they nest in, most often oak trees. I used my Nikon D5500 and 200-mm lens; focus, ISO, and timer were all Auto.
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Cazzie, I have a paper model of the Nuthatch hanging from my ceiling. We call it the upside down bird. We have a bunch here as they seem to like oak trees. Love to see the little guys at the bird feeder. We keep this up maybe Simouthouse will created a bird flight forum. I found this little hatch laying on my patio during one of our very hot days. I brought it inside and cooled it down. Also some sugar water from a toothpick for strength. After about an hour it was able to sit on my finger and then the fence which you see here. Another 10 minutes and it flew away. Fun stuff.
jmig
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Cazzie, I hope I didn't offend you with my post. If so, I apologize. That never was my intention. When I read your post, I thought it seemed like you my be down or depressed because of your physical condition. My post was meant to support you and state that while we may be on our last leg, we are not down and out. As long as we can find positives in life and are grateful for what we have, vs. what we have lost, life is rewarding.
I too no longer do things I enjoy and love. I remember when we both use to post in the old photography forum. You often spoke of walking the area and showed us images you had taken. I love landscape photography. I have had more than a few moments of ecstasy when I was overwhelmed emotionally over seeing beautiful scenery and feeling close to God. At such times I thanked God for allowing me to be there and experience such beauty. I can no longer hike into the mountains and experience such emotional highs. Still, I can find happiness and souring emotions in the things I sill can do, and in the beauty of art and music. That was and is my life's motif. Find the beauty life offers wherever you are and whatever state you are currently find yourself.
You mentioned golf. I too played golf for many years. I concur on it frustration. However, all I needed to do was hit one perfect, beautiful shot where I watched the ball soar, land, and roll just where my mind's eye saw it moments before swinging, and that was what I remembered for the rest of the day. Flight simming can be that way for me. Especially with VR, I find myself in my VR cockpit and suddenly it is deja vu. I am for a moment back flying in real life feeling like I am 24-yrs-old. It is things like that that make my life full and happy. I believe regardless of age and circumstances life offers such moments. All we have to do is see them when they occur.
It sounded like, from reading your post, that you did this in the past. I say, keep it up. Find what you can do, do it, and thank God for being alive.
Cazzie
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Time for me to look for another good 2 TB programable SSD and have my computer engineer son installed it and have it ready. I have MSFS 2020 on a dedicated 2 TB SSD now, not going to bog it up with 2024. Going to jack my RAM up from 32 GB to 64 GB too.
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