Yes, I’m back. And in France again, yippeee…! But what was meant to be the second half of our holidays, became a nightmare because of a tiny and untypical mistake by yours truly. I clicked on a link in a fake email, and attracted a trojan viurs from Russia. Although I saw it immediately, computers [...]
Yup, I’m not done yet…… not by a long shot! So here’s Step Three: Flightsim Plaza’s SimNews !! I jokingly mentioned in another place that I was getting bored already, not doing the simFlight news pages anymore. That’s partially true. I certainly do NOT miss the constant pressure of having to provide ‘news’ each and [...]
…of the re-invention has been made. In the form of yet a new attempt at setting up my own webshop. And although it proved to be cumbersome (what else is new) it seems to be running and functioning now, ON a new server too. I have put the also new Gloster Gladiator for FSX up [...]
First thing to change had to be my old Silver Cloud Publishing web site. It was the first ever WordPress site I made and I hadn’t changed it from its default orange ‘theme’ since I made it. There wasn’t much to read on it either. So it got changed. I designed a brand new [...]
…. well, sort of. The Russian based development company who brought us the great WW1 flight simulator, has some news to share: "…. As many of you have already read on the forums, 777 Studios, previously the North American publisher of Rise of Flight has acquired all rights to Rise of Flight and the neoqb [...]
The User Manual is done. The aircraft itself is done. I ‘wasted’ a day flying it of course…… sorry….. too much fun! And now I am working on the Installer software to build the package for release. Oh, we set the price for it too. US$ 19,95 will get you the three versions and [...]
From various sources news reaches me that flight simulation as a hobby is on the decline. Obviously Microsoft pulling out after 25 years did not help the hobby a bit. But probably also the increasing lack of patience and shorter attention spans of younger people and increasing number of distractions are debet to that. But, [...]
On first sight these two things have absolutely nothing in common. Correct. But what if I tell you that I was happily working on building my new FS News website, when Nina reminded me that the pile of wood in the third bedroom would start to rot if I didn’t get my sorry behind off [...]
The market for Flight Simulator magazines remains a difficult one. I just read that the new PC-Simulations in France had to fold, after maybe only a year in existence. Other magazines that came and went are in the Netherlands, Austria and Germany, leaving us with precious little choice. Computer Pilot and PC Pilot remain the [...]
Sadly, my days at simFlight (and simMarket) are numbered and I had to decide to quit an 8-year ‘career’ running one of the world’s top flight simulation news sites. The main reason being the fact that I just couldn’t afford it any longer. An already meager pay – and declining at that – with an [...]
Seems too nice a date to let pass without writing something. We are eagerly awaiting the arrival of our friends from Seattle on Tuesday. We’ll show them a little bit of Holland, and then take off to hopefully see the mountains in the picture; the view of my youth! We spent more than 15 years [...]
When someone is trying to push you out of business, and out of your income, there are two things you can do. Fight them with all means, or just go around them and do something else…. preferably better. Looks like I’m heading the second route. Fortunately we can still count on a huge group of [...]
Been working hard all afternoon on flightsim related stuff (and out riding again this morning……. ). New is the patch that Jon Patch (what’s in a name) published to make Vancouver X compatible with the new Orbx Pacific Northwest landscape (FTX NA Blue). You’ll find it on our web site here. Also NEW is the [...]
well, not from FSAddon Publishing, that is. Holger Sandmann regrettably has decided to stick with the competition and not continue his work for FSAddon. I won’t comment any further here, suffice it to say that obviously I don’t agree with his motives and am extremely disappointed. My dear wife Nina continues to impress on me [...]
Big Time. Been having headaches for the past 3 weeks and that’s why you haven’t seen much of me here. Maybe I should see the doctor after all, one of these days. Meanwhile, we’re pretty busy with all sorts of ‘stuff’….. and Vivian and Menno are ‘in the country’. That’ll take some of our time [...]
Our daughter Vivian and her husband Menno are returning to Holland for a 2 weeks. And although we see her a few times per week on Skype, it will be good to have her around for a bit! Will be jumping in the Jeep in a few minutes to drive to the airport. They’ll [...]
I guess this should go under ‘grumpy tales’, or at least the first part of my pondering. You see, here I am PAYING for some add-on scenery for once, just because I wanted to support some of my friends, and then I can’t download the thing because the publisher (or his dedicated retailer in this [...]
Let me repeat a message that I wrote on my FSAddon Publishing website "….. From our friend and colleague Allen Kriesman is the Ultimate Terrain series of landscape enhancement programs for Flight Simulator. Ultimate Alaska X is the perfect companion to our own Alaskan sceneries, providing a replacement of the default MS coast lines, roads, [...]
1-0 for now. It appears that it is so much ‘easier’ to quickly type a few lines on Facebook, read about what your friends and acquaintances are doing, check again a few times every day, and move on, then to write something worth reading on a blog. I complained about this before, to myself, who [...]
I’ll be posting our best wishes for the next year soon here. But unfortunately I have to finish 2009 with yet another sad story. For the second time this month I have to post news that will be devastating to many of us. Herb Morse, aka Lizardo, died of cancer after emergency surgery failed [...]
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