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From: cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sublogic Amiga Scenery Disk 7 bombs
Message-ID: <18849@sun.uucp>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 14:02:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: sun.18849
Posted: Thu May 14 14:02:09 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 12:20:55 EDT
References: <642@hao.UCAR.EDU> <655@hao.UCAR.EDU>
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Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA
Lines: 45
Keywords: no keyboard, no mouse button response
Summary: It works for me sort of

In article <655@hao.UCAR.EDU>, hull@hao.UCAR.EDU (Howard Hull) writes:
< 
< Well, for the benefit of anyone else who gets the Amiga Scenery Disk 7
< for Sublogic's Flight Simulator II, the manual is incorrect concerning
< how to get it cranked up.  I got only one response to my query and that
< person said they watched someone else go through exactly the same thing
< I did.  So that gave me proper encouragement to try some variations.
< 
< I never did get it to work with V1.1 so to begin with, use a V1.2 KICK.
< What you have to do is boot the FS2 disk in the usual way.  Then, quick
< like a flying fox, before FS2 decides to enter DEMO mode, remove the
< FS2 disk and put in the Scenery Disk.  Hit the E key.  The disk will be
< accessed, and then you will be transplaced into the middle of a vast
< green desert (because of the initial western US coordinates that boot
< with the FS2 disk).  Open the NAV menu, select the POSITION SET option,
< enter some coordinates from region 7, (the altitudes don't have to be
< zero: use the intended location's altitude) and then close the P.S. window.
< Now, hit the E key again.  The program will then relocate you where you
< wanted to go.  Good Luck...
< 								Howard Hull

Sorry I didn't get to this sooner, I had a similar experience to Howard's
except that since I hadn't really read the manual I wasn't hindered by
following directions :-). Basically, I just boot up FS2 normally and
when I appear on the Airport at Oakland I swap out the FS2 disk with
the scenery disk. Press E, appear in the desert :-) and set the 
position with the NAV menu, and then reappear in D.C. (sorta like 
matter transmission). I didn't even have to press E again. What I did
do however was position myself on the ends of the interesting runways
and use the 'Save Situation' menu item to add them to the save situation
list. Then copied them onto the Scenery Disk (I know this is dangerous 
but hey the disk is only 25% full so why should I worry :-)) Now when
I load the scenery disk and type E, I follow it with a 'Load RAM from
Disk' request which puts up all those saved situations, pick one I
want to fly and (poof) I appear at the appropriate airport. I also
figured out why the darn thing 'chirps' when you change plane types
while sitting on the oakland runway. Basically they have the initial
altitude of oakland wrong by about 2 feet, and when you change plane
types you reappear as a learjet 2 feet off the runway and drop down
on to the tarmac! 

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--Chuck McManis
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