Sim Community Observer

by Ed Reddy

Article Type: Simulation Community
Article Date: January 17 to January 24, 2002

• Headlines:
  
  
  
  • Richard Harvey Says Farewell
    
  • CFS3 Patch Details Released
    
  • LO-MAC Release Date Update
    
  • Strike Fighters Project 1 Patch is out NOW!
    
  • Gazette 183 ** Great Pix ** The Crash of Flight 143 ** Red Baron
    
  
  
  
  
• Media Sites:
  
  
  
  • COMBATSIM.COM
    
  • Frugals World of Simulations
    
  • Migman
    
  • SimHQ
    
  • Subsim
    
  • Wargamer
    
  • Military Gamer
  
  
  
  
• Game and Hardware-Specific Sites:
  
  
  
  • Aces High
    
  • America's Army
    
  • Combat Flight Simulator 2 & 3
    
  • CFS Pilots
    
  • Day of Defeat
    
  • F4 Unified Team
    
  • Fighter Ace
    
  • Flanker
    
  • Fighter Squadron: SDOE
    
  • IL-2 Sturmovik
    
  • LO:MAC
    
  • GI Combat
    
  • Operation Flashpoint
    
  • WarBirds
    
  • WWII Online
    
  • Flight-sim Usenet
    
  • Hardware
  
  
  
  

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COMBATSIM.COM

• URL: http://www.combatsim.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Game News:
    
    
    
    • Strategy First to Publish Just Flight Add-ons (alt. link)
      
    • Platoon Easy Mod (alt. link)
      
    • Rise of Nations to Launch in UK this May (alt. link)
      
    • War and Peace Patch v1.0.2 (alt. link)
      
    • GHC adds Battlefield 1942 Section (alt. link)
      
    • Richard Harvey Says Farewell
      
    • USAF T-37 Tweet Add-on for FS2002
      
    • Ruud Faber's FScene2002 USA & Canada
      
    • Praetorians Website Now Live
      
    • Thrustmaster Releases New Sound System
      
    • LO-MAC Video and Screens
      
    • Raven Shield Multiplayer Demo Patch v1.2
      
    • BF1942's Road to Rome Expansion Ships Feb. 04.
      
    • Battlefield 1942 v1.3 Patch Annoucement
      
    • CFS3 Patch Details Released
      
    • Thrustmaster Renews Contract With The U.S. Airforce
      
    • Korea: Forgotten Conflict Screenshots
      
    • Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield MP Demo Patch Announcement
      
    • Win a 64-Bit System
      
    • Tom's Hardware: Powerline Wireless Network
      
    • Falcon V: OIR - Gold by June 2003
      
    • Falcon V: OIR - A-10 Screenshot
      
    • Falcon V Developer to Relocate to Seattle
      
    • Strike Fighters Patch Released
      
    • Screenshots: Forgotten Battles
      
    • HOTAS Covers Giveaway
      
    • NVIDIA Launches Multimedia Player Demo
      
    • Tom's Hardware Compares Video Cards
      
    • Quantum3D Supports NVIDIA Quadro FX GPU
      
    • Falcon V Still Alive?
      
    • GI Combat v1.04 Patch
      
      
    
    
  • Military News:
    
    
    
    • Historic AVRO Arrow Hangers Slated for Demolition (alt. link)
      
    • Navy Names New Destroyers Honoring Naval Heroes (alt. link)
      
    • B-52 Sees Biggest Improvement in 15 Years (alt. link)
      
    • Danish Air Force Upgrades F-16 AN/ALQ-162 Countermeasures Systems (alt. link)
      
    • US Navy and Canadian F/A-18's Get New Center Barrels and Nacelles (alt. link)
      
    • UK Selects Javelin Anti-Tank Weapon System
      
    • Four Marines Die in Texas Helicopter Crash
      
    • V-22 Osprey Completes At-Sea Period
      
    • Fighter Squadron Deactivated
      
    • BAE to Provide F-16 IFF Equipment
      
    • Daily Chuckle: GE's Wright Brothers Commercial
      
    • CAE to Build Additional C-130J Cockpit Trainers for USAF
      
    • BVR's Commissions Flight Simulators for Israeli Airforce
      
    • FlightSafety International Gives 1,000th Simulator Lesson
      
    • Successful Tomahawk Launch Precursor to SSGN Conversion Testing
      
    • Unmanned Firebee Delivers Payloads
      
    • Predator Gets Advanced Antenna
      
    • U.S. Army Uses Fakespace Simulation
      
    • Eurofighter Typhoon Cockpit Trainer Handover
      
    • Air Force Association's 19th Annual Air Warfare Symposium
      
    • BAE Wins Contract to Enhance Subs
      
    • Northrop Grumman Converts Sub's Missile Capabilities
      
      
    
    
  • Articles:
    
    
    
    • The Jet Set: Skins in Strike Fighters: Project 1
      
    • IGI 2: Covert Strike, Multiplayer Demo
      
    • Jug Time
      
    
    
  
  

Frugals World of Simulations

• URL: http://www.frugalsworld.com
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Listen Up, Europeans!
    
  • Our "Allies"
    
  • G2 Update Now
    
  
  

MigMan

• URL: http://www.migman.com
  
  
• Contests:
  
  
  
  • Microsoft and MiGMan competition
    
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • FREE AREA - Beginner's tip : setup your controller in Windows
    
  • Personal Display Systems
    
  • Total Air War
    
  • ThunderHawk
    
  
  

SimHQ

• URL: http://www.simhq.com
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Book Review: The Atlas of Eastern Front Battles
    
  
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Soaring Flight Simulator v4.10
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Every time a topic I start scrolls...
    
  • ***Word association***
    
  • US Anti War Movement
    
  • BOB: Here's what happened (Continued)
    
  • Enemy Engaged: MP game on.
    
  
  
  

Subsim.com

• URL: http://www.subsim.com
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Enigma Snags SP Publisher
    
  • PM v1.03 FOR SH2 & DC - DOWNLOAD NOW!!
    
  
  
  

Wargamer.com

• URL: http://www.wargamer.com
  
  
• Contests:
  
  
  
  • Newsletter G.I. Combat Contest
    
  • Games That Sell!" Contest/Survey
    
  • Scenario Design Contest
  
  
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Interview: American Conquest
    
  • Screenshots Feature: Praetorians
    
  • PC Game Review: Age of Mythology
    
  • PC Game Review: Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings
    
  • Book Review: Lost Subs
    
  • PC Game Review: Medal of Honor Allied Assault: Spearhead
    
  • PC Game Review: Lost Victories: Army Group South 1941 and Operation Watchtower 1942: Guadalcanal
    
  • Book Review: I Served
    
  • Board Game Review: Prussia's Glory
    
  
  
• Wargamer's latest news (updated daily)
  

MilitaryGamer.com

• URL: http://www.militarygamer.com
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Bill Mauldin, 81, the much-beloved "GI cartoonist" of World War II, Dies
    
  • The Combat Mission Community By Scott Boston
    
  • Developer Q & A - Korea: Forgotten Conflict - Plastic Reality
    
  • CMBB AAR - 2nd Panzer Advance By Andrew Muir
    
  • The Great Crusade - Pt 3- D-Day - By Neil Stalker and Wild Bill Wilder
    
  • Review - Europa 1400 – The Guild By Jim Cobb - Picking Your Parents Is Important!
    
  
  
• MGO's latest news (updated daily)
  

Game-Specific Sites

Combat Flight Simulator 2 & 3

• URL: CFS2: http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs2/
  
• URL: CFS3: http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs3/
  
• URL: CFS Insider: http://microsoftgamesinsider.com/CFSInsider
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Latest News on the CFS3 Patch
    
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• New downloads from Flightsim.com
  
• To download, login and in Main / File Libraries (Downloads) / Search File Libraries, copy and paste in the bolded zipped file name.
  
  
  
  • CFS Belgian WWI Mission--A Taste Fix - fixww1ca.zip
    
  • CFS Scenery--Fassberg - fassberg.zip
    
  • CFS Scenery--Wunstorf - wunstorf.zip
    
  • CFS2/FS2002 Mitsubishi A6M2 Model 21 - a6m2m21.zip
    
  • CFS2 Scenery--East Anglia Air Bases - 8thabs.zip
    
  • CFS2 Hawker Tempest MkII - tempmkii.zip
    
  
  

CFS Pilots

• URL: http://www.cfspilots.50megs.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Sturmovik 101 FAQ by Kajr
    
  • Il2: 7 New Skins from Topher
    
  • IL2: New ME262 skin by JerseyD
    
  • Strike Fighters Project 1 Patch is out NOW!
    
  • Gazette 183 ** Great Pix ** The Crash of Flight 143 ** Red Baron
    
  
  

Day of Defeat

• URL: http://www.dayofdefeatmod.com
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • DoD Wins! Thanks everyone
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Post Who You Think Is the Hottest
    
  • Dog1 an official map?
    
  • Official Do You Think We Should Go To Iraq?
    
  
  

F4 Unified Team

• URL: http://f4ut.frugalsworld.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • BVR Tactics Article
    
  • FalconV and OIR back on track.
    
  
  

Open Plane Sims - FS:SDOE

• URL: http://www.openplanesims.com
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Duxford events THis Year
    
  • UPDATED CALENDAR!!!!
    
  • FS-WWI Plane Pack 3 Final Release!
    
  • Meatwater's Rolling Thunder soundpack posted
    
  • User submissions requested
    
  
  

IL-2 Sturmovik

• URL: http://www.il2sturmovik.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • New Screens
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • BEARCAT!!!!
    
  • Who said you can't cheat in IL-2 ?
    
  • What made Soviet fighters so much better than German fighters?
    
  • best fighter_pilots ever
    
  • Yay the Ta152 should outturn the P51! (thread for thick skinned ppl)
    
  • Custom gif's as your avatar?
    
  • Are you ready for some football?
    
  • PLEASE! ATTENTION! PLEASE COPY TO OTHERS!
    
  • More about the Bf-109K-4 and Drag
    
  
  
  
• Downloads:
  
  
  
  • Paint Schemes
  
  
  
  

LO:MAC

• URL: http://www.lo-mac.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Release Date Update!
    
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Since there ARE tanks in LOMAC: Japan builds a better MBT than France, England, and Russia?!
    
  
  
  

GI Combat

• URL: http://www.gicombat.com
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • New GI Combat 104 Patch
    
  
  

Operation Flashpoint

• URL: http://www.flashpoint1985.com
  
  
• Complete Addons & Mods listing. Updates and mods added daily!
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Ofp combat photography
    
  • What would you like to see in ofp2
    
  • F/a-18 c "fighting omars" public beta ready
    
  • Mh47e chinook released
    
  • Rah-66 comanche released
    
  
  

Massively Multiplayer

Aces High

• URL: http://www.hitechcreations.com
  
  
• Events:
  
  
  
  • For all events including Snapshots, TOD, and more!
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Who are these guys?
    
  • Need a Name.
    
  • H8K2 Emily Information
    
  • Improving the Bomber Model (suggestion)
    
  
  

America's Army

• URL: http://www.americasarmy.com
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General:
    
    
    
    • Spectating idea: "The Box" Attn. Dev's
      
    • Positive Karma: Outstanding CLANS
      
    • Positive Karma: Outstanding Players
      
    • www.trAAcker.com --- Get your AA stats here
      
    
    
    
  • R&R
    
    
    
    • Clan Cheating
      
    • word game
      
    • Question for you Vets and those Enlisting...
      
    • Confessions of a Gun Control Believer
      
    
    
  
  

Fighter Ace

• URL: http://fighterace.jaleco.com/
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Current Issues and Actions
    
  
  
  
• Events:
  
  
  
  • This weeks events!
    
  
  

WarBirds

• URL: http://www.totalsims.com
  
  
• All Warbirds (II & III) Events:
  
  
  
  • Events Calendar
  
  
  
  

WWII Online

• URL: Playnet Site 1
  
• URL: Playnet Site 2
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Nordic HQ on the rise
    
  • Toto's weekly infantry update
    
  • Flight of Helm!
    
  • Speed?
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Off-Topic
    
    
    
    • My first ever negative experience with law enforcement.
      
    • WHO THE fudge DID THIS?!?!!?!?
      
    • U.S. Promises to Hold Iraqi Oil "In Trust"
      
    
    
    
  • The Barracks:
    
    
    
    • Infantry needed: The Virtual Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
      
    • Allied Soldiers Wanted !!
      
    • Amazing Video!
      
    
    
  • The Harbour:
    
    
    
    • Photo Gallery For The New Forums--Submarines
      
    • It is Naval Tradition to keep this YELLOW folder on page 1.....
      
    • Photo Gallery For The New Forums--Surface
      
    
    
  • The Hangar:
    
    
    
    • JG53 is seeking dedicated new recruits to fly the Bf 110, He 111 and the Ju 87
      
    • The Bose Geschwader 26 is looking for new recruits!
      
    
    
  • The Motor Pool:
    
    
    
    • CRS, please review the Flak36 when there is time.
      
    • Panzer Regiment .6 is looking for
      
    
    
  
  

Usenet

Flight-sim Usenet

• URL: Click Here
  
  
• Discussions:
  
  
  
  • OT The United States of America has gone mad
    
  • Papadoc grabs at straws again
    
  
  

Controllers

Cougar World

• URL: http://cougar.frugalsworld.com/
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Latest News
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • *Mods and Tweaks*
    
  • Upgrade to Cougar HS kit available
  
  
  • EvenStrain Gimbals Production
    
  
  

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