Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Post by gnat » Wed Oct 28, 2020 4:53 pm

5chn3ll wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 3:47 pm Damn, I remember trying to uudecode massive multipart binaries...those were not the good old days.
I think I downloaded OS2 that way too...

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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Post by 32wildbilly » Wed Oct 28, 2020 5:28 pm

5chn3ll wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 2:32 pm Heh. A disc drive...you mean, like, for loading games?

Do the words "steam" and "client" mean anything to you if you juxtapose them?
What do you mean by "loading"?
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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Post by 32wildbilly » Wed Oct 28, 2020 5:31 pm

Dr_Strangelove (whew!) wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 4:11 pm
5chn3ll wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 2:32 pm Heh. A disc drive...you mean, like, for loading games?

Do the words "steam" and "client" mean anything to you if you juxtapose them?
Steam client? Schnell you're talking to a train mechanic here.
train electrician...PLEASE! A wheat train electrician.
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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Post by 5chn3ll » Wed Oct 28, 2020 6:54 pm

OPERATOR.

:D

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Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
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Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Post by 32wildbilly » Wed Oct 28, 2020 7:17 pm

5chn3ll wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 6:54 pm OPERATOR.

:D
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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Post by theprf » Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:32 am

gnat wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 3:05 pm I once downloaded Win95 off Usenet onto 90 something 3 1/4" disks.

Thankfully A) all the posts were there and B) working at AOL gave me access to their dumpster late at night so I could grab my fill of returned floppies.
I have an original set of Win 95 3 1/2" floppies -- all 5 of them! Life was simpler then.....

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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Post by 5chn3ll » Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:40 am

Shit, I've probably got a set of Windows for Workgroups disks. I think it included the clock app.

The days of loading drivers into extended memory to save that precious 640K of base...I am so happy they're over.

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Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
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Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Post by 5chn3ll » Thu Oct 29, 2020 12:32 pm

Moving onto the new SSD. Life sucked so much more before drive toasters were a thing...

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Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Post by 5chn3ll » Fri Oct 30, 2020 4:08 pm

I buzzed the Malecón in Cozumel about 15 minutes ago. After changing the weather.
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Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Post by 5chn3ll » Sat Oct 31, 2020 10:43 am

Cloning the boot volume didn't go the way I'd hoped. There was a recovery partition on the 512GB drive that also got cloned onto the 1TB drive, so I couldn't resize the partition on the 1TB drive.

I blew all the partitions on both drives out and started over with the Windows install ISO on a flash drive - the install only takes a few minutes during hot flash-on-flash action.

Windows is on the 1TB primary volume; most of the rest of that volume will be video files and 3D shit. I'm installing all of the games onto the 512GB SSD to avoid any potential I/O bottleneck caused by the OS during disk-intensive game loads.

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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