From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihlpb!dap1
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Title: Re: IBM PC Flight Simulator - (nf)
Article-I.D.: ihlpb.296
Posted: Sat Feb  5 18:00:52 1983
Received: Sun Feb  6 06:36:26 1983

#R:utzoo:-279300:ihlpb:17100006:  0:1168
ihlpb!dap1    Feb  5 18: 0:00 1983

I've got this thing and it's a pretty amazing piece of software.  I'm not
a pilot but I can say that the effects are great.  There are only a few
problems such as :
	It's controlled by the keyboard which makes it difficult to
	steer (for people like me who don't have a joystick I guess
	that's just as well).

	I suppose it's pretty juvenile but I'd like to see something
	a little more spectacular than a blank screen with "CRASH"
	written on it when I hit the ground.
Well, those are minor inconveniences but the 3-D effect is super and there
are some 30 or 40 variables taken into account in each situation with
MANY options (almost too many) such as season, cloud layers, wind, time of
day, geography, etc., etc.
	I wouldn't have answered via the net BUT this program does something
that I don't know how to do and I was wondering if somebody else out there
did.  The upper half of the screen is in one resolution mode and the lower
is in another (for the console).  I know you can fool around with the
registers in the 6845 but I'm not enough of a hardware jock to know exactly
how to set them.  Does anyone else out there know?
						Darrell Plank
						BTL-IH