April 2006 - Posts
I just posted a bunch of photos of the P-12 my father has been building over the last 20+ years. The images span a wide time range covering about 18 or so of those years. You can find the gallery here . There are far more images that I haven't posted
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There are probably more forum posts and e-mails regarding realism than any other subject for FS, so I thought it might be useful to post some of my thoughts on what realism is all about. And btw, this is all just my opinion, and doesn't necessarily represent
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So it looks like the video we are working on for E3 will eventually be released to a large audience. I don't know exactly how that will happen, but I think it's pretty exciting. I watched a rough cut of the video storyboard today while we were capturing
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I'm sitting in MS Studios which is a full featured production studio on campus watching Jason Waskey do his magic capturing great shots of FSX in action. It's very cool. I don't know if you'll ever see any of it unless you go to E3, but maybe it will
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I would have thought you guys would be all over this, but I don't see much action in the forums yet, so here's a link to the article on flightsim.com . It's an interview with our studio manager Shawn Firminger which I think you will find interesting.
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Yet another flashback to my past, this time from a longtime friend and ex-Lobotomite Tom. When I left Nintendo it was to start my own company, which I founded with two friends. The company name was Lobotomy Software and we created console and PC games.
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Well maybe "fan" is a little strong, but last night was the first time my daughter took any real interest in what I was doing with Flight Simulator. I was working on a mission for E3, and she walked up wanting to know what I was doing. I showed her the
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As much as I would love to start up e-mail dialogs with readers of this blog, if I did so, I would have so much e-mail that I wouldn't have any time to respond to any of them much less make any blog posts. So unless you are a Microsoft employee, e-mail
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I'm a lucky SOB and I know it. I thank God everyday for the blessings in my life, and I honestly prayed for this job everyday for one and half years while I was unemployed. Okay, I didn't exactly pray for this specific job, but one that involved computer
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Unfortunately I'm home sick today, but I'll try to get some work done as well. My wife has been patiently asking for my travel schedule this year so I have been tracking down some dates. I noticed on the official Reno Air Racing website that the Jet class
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