Sim Community Observer

by Ed Reddy

Article Type: Simulation Community
Article Date: October 17 to October 25, 2002

Headlines:     - GI Combat Demo Released

Media Sites:

• COMBATSIM.COM
  
• Frugals World of Simulations
  
• Migman
  
• SimHQ
  
• Subsim
  
• Wargamer

Game- and Hardware-Specific Sites:

• Aces High
  
• America's Army
  
• Combat Flight Simulator 2 & 3
  
• CFS Pilots
  
• Day of Defeat
  
• F4 Unified Team
  
• Falcon IV / V
  
• 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:
    
    
    
    • Napoleon Movie Trailer
      
    • Delta Force - Black Hawk Down Delayed
      
    • New Screens, Movie: Rainbow Six 3 Raven Shield
      
    • New Screens: Lock On
      
    • New Screens: Hearts of Iron
      
    • New Screens: GI Combat
      
    • Strike Fighters: Project 1 Ships
      
    • Strategic Command TCP/IP patch
      
    • New Screens: Blitzkrieg
      
    • New Screens: War and Peace
      
    • PC Title Sniper pulled from Wal-Mart stores near DC
      
    • New Screens: Forgotten Battles
      
    • Bid to Cripple Internet Fails
      
    • IGI 2: Covert Strike - Stealth video
      
    • Platoon Movie
      
    • New Screens: IL-2 Forgotten Battles
      
    • New Screens: R63 Raven Shield
      
    • New Screens: Platoon
      
    • IGI 2: Covert Strike Slips
      
    
    
    
  • Military News:
    
    
    
    • Lockheed Martin Delivers First Production Raptor
      
    • TUAV Goes Into Full Rate Production In US
      
    • Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System Successfully Launches Missile At-Sea
      
    • Army Continues Support for Six Stryker Brigades
      
    • IFF for Astute Class Submarines
      
    • International Success Continues For SPIKE
      
    • Lockheed Martin Delivers LOSAT to U.S. Army
      
    • U.S. Air Force Awards Towed Decoy Production
      
    • Raytheon, U.S. Navy Sign Phalanx 1B Order
      
    • Boeing Announces Strategic Partners for UCAR Program
      
    • First Sale of the Mk 45 Mod 4 Naval Gun to Europe
      
    • BAT Scores Direct Hits From Hunter UAV
      
    • Boeing Unveils Bird of Prey
      
    • Two Super Hornets Crash at Sea
      
    
    
    
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    • Steel My Soldiers' Hearts
      
    
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Welcome Back Everybody!
    
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  • JA!!-- ZHee vhot you did.....
    
  
  

Frugals World of Simulations

• URL: http://www.frugalsworld.com
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • P4 Northwood 2.53GHz D850EMV2 Review
    
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Falcon 4
    
    
    
    • Poll: What is your age?
      
    • That´s what I think of the Falcon
      
    • Take Time To Vote for Frugals...
      
    • Poll: Would you use a "pirated" Aeyes 1600 pit?
      
    • Poll: Second best sim?
      
    • OT: Tonight is a sad night for liberalists...
      
    
    
    
  • Falcon V
    
    
    
    • Falcon 5.0 cancelled?
      
    
    
    
    
  • Current Affairs
    
    
    
    • Maryland Shootings
      
    • Thread Derailing Group
      
    
    
  
  

MigMan

• URL: http://www.migman.com
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Spitfires to Star Wars
    
  
  

SimHQ

• URL: http://www.simhq.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • A new version of IL-2 Stab
    
  • USB products and IL-2 Sturmovik
    
  • The new web site, Tactical Community
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  
  • World and Current Events
    
    
    
    • They took away steak knives on planes but left open all the gun stores across America
      
    
    
    
  • Battle of Britain
    
    
    
    • Here's what happened (Continued)
      
    
    
    
  • Enemy Engaged: Comanche vs. Hokum
    
    
    
    • MP game on.
      
    
    
    
  • European Air War
    
    
    
    • * THE HOLY GRAIL * OPERATIONAL 3D AIRCRAFT CARRIERS!
      
    • Customising New Guinea
      
    
    
    
  • IL-2
    
    
    
    • The Ugly, Lame Duckling Fw-190
      
    • What ever became of the Cess Pool?
      
    • Lockheed P-80A Shooting Star for IL-2 !!
      
    
    
  • Strike Fighters: Project 1
    
    
    
    • GOLD version.. campaign crash
      
      
    
    
  
  
  

Subsim.com

• URL: http://www.subsim.com
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Action Vault Enigma Review
    
  • SH2 Knowledge Base
    
  
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • United States Sending Another Carrier to Gulf
    
  • USS Constitution Closing to Public
    
  • Springfield teaches/learns during COMPTUEX
    
  • Northrop Plans To Sell German Subs To Taiwan-Handelsblatt
    
  • U.S. Kidd-class destroyers a hard sell in Taiwan
    
  • New Evidence Shows U.S. Almost Triggered Nuclear War
    
  • Navy Tests High Tech Stealth Boat
    
  • U.S. submarine force is probably already in place in Gulf region
    
  
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Silent Hunter II
    
    
    
    • Stable MP for Silent Hunter II -- READ THIS
      
    • The Holy Grail! - Scenario Editor Screenie
      
    
    
    
  • Sub Command
    
    
    
    • Strange pictures of the USS Scorpion on the bottom
      
    
    
  
  

Wargamer.com

• URL: http://www.wargamer.com
  
  
• Contests:
  
  
  
  • Games That Sell!" Contest/Survey
    
  • Scenario Design Contest
  
  
  • The Sudden Strike II: Fall Wardrobe Enhancement
  
  
  
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Ghost Recon Patch v1.4
    
  • Top 20 Selling Games for September
    
  • Top Ten Selling Games - October 6 to October 12
    
  • CDV Delays Breed and Imperium Galactica III into 2003
    
  • Strike Fighters: Project 1 Ships to Retail
    
  • Civ III: Play the World Gone Gold
    
  • Electronic Arts Announces Plans for Demo for James Bond 007: NightFire
    
  • Civil War Games Planned Based on Ron Maxwell's Movies
    
  • Strategic Command v1.05 Enables Online Play
    
  • Napoleon Gameplay Trailer Released
    
  
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Screenshots Feature: Master of Orion 3
    
  • PC Game Preview: Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings
    
  • Book Review: Where We Were In Vietnam
    
  • PC Game Preview: Platoon
    
  • Screenshots Feature: Medal of Honor: Spearhead
    
  • PC Game Review: Starships Unlimited: Divided Galaxies
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General:
    
    
    
    • On the Silver Screen...
    
    
    
    
  
  

Game-Specific Sites

Combat Flight Simulator 2 & 3

• URL: CFS2: http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs2/
  
• URL: CFS3: http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs3/
  
  
• New from Flightsim.com
  
  
  
  • CFS Scenery--Roma Landmarks
    
  • FS2002 MD-B F/A-18C Of VFA-131
    
  • FS2002 MD Helicopters Inc. MD 600N
    
  • FS2002 F/A-18C Panel
    
  • FS2002 Royal Danish Air Force F-104
    
  • FS2002 RAAF Transavia PL-12 Airtruk
    
  • FS2000 Pro Kawanishi H8K2 Flying Boat
    
  • FS2002 Croatian Air Force MiG-21
    
  • FS2002 MD-B F/A-18D Of VMFA(AW)-121
    
  • FS2002 McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18A Hornet
    
  • FS2002 Ilyushin IL-2 Stormovik
    
  • FS2000/FS2002 Norwegian Air Force RF104G
    
  • FS2002 Westland Lysander Mk III
    
  
  

CFS Pilots

• URL: http://www.cfspilots.50megs.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Gazette Issue 171 Oct 23rd
    
  • Six new IL2 Skins
    
  • New Forgotten Battles Screenshots
    
  • Updated German/Russian to English Voice packs
    
  • CFS3 First Look - Part One
    
  
  
  
• Links
  
  
  
  • Offical sites, fan sites, skins and a whole lot more for CFS1/2 and IL2
    
  
  

Day of Defeat

• URL: http://www.dayofdefeatmod.com
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General
    
    
    
    • Dod's funniest screenshots Part2
      
    • The unscoped sniping argument
      
    
    
    
  • Mapping
    
    
    
    • DOD Jagd update
      
    • Anyone interested in a mapping model and prefab collection for DoD?
      
    
    
  
  

F4 Unified Team

• URL: http://f4ut.frugalsworld.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • SuperPAK 3 and newbies
    
  
  

Falcon IV / V

• Community Sites:
  
  
  
  • E-Razor's E-Team
  
  
  
  
• Site no longer followed due to inactivity.
  

Flanker

• URL: http://www.flanker2.com
  
  
• Site no longer followed due to inactivity.
  

FS:SDOE Information Center

• URL: http://www.fightersquadron.com/index.php3
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General
    
    
    
    • SDOE Install order, locations and sizes - Hyperlobby Version
      
    • WW2 Basepack beta 2a
      
    • 
      
    
    
  • WWI in SDOE
    
    
    
    • FlyXwire's Holtzem Pfalz D.IIIa Up for Download!
      
    
    
  • Downloads
    
    
    
    • He177 version alpha
      
    • Finnish Air Force Birds for you
      
    • Junkers Ju88 for Finnish Air Force
      
    • The first, but not the last...I hope
      
    • Finnish Morane-Saulnier...
      
    
    
  
  

IL-2 Sturmovik

• URL: http://www.il2sturmovik.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • New Forgotten Battles Screenshots!
    
  • IL-2 Site Updates - Forgotten Battles Development
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General
    
    
    
    • Best Infantry Weapon of WW2, What is your Favorite?
      
    • A suggestion for the trimwhiners
      
    • Are you ready for some football?
      
    • An open letter about cheating
      
    
    
    
  • Oleg's Ready Room
    
    
    
    • P-80 in IL2?
      
    • Development update 18.10
      
    
    
    
  
  
  
• Downloads:
  
  
  
  • Paint Schemes
  
  
  
  

LO:MAC

• URL: http://www.lo-mac.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • New Eye Candy
    
  • Hi-Res Intelligence
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Why, Why, Why ???
    
  
  

GI Combat

• URL: http://www.gicombat.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • New GI Combat Mod Site Online
    
  • GI Combat Demo Available For Download
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • How many Table Top Grogs we got here?
    
  • Lawerance Jameson/Sabot
    
  
  

Operation Flashpoint

• URL: http://www.flashpoint1985.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Linux standalone server 1.8x beta
    
  • 1.85 issues resolved in 1.88 Beta Server available
    
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General:
    
    
    
    • General about 1.85 patch
      
    • What would you like to see in ofp2
      
    
    
    
  • Addons & Mods:
    
    
    
    • 2s6m tunguska released
      
    • Kyllikki soundpack
      
    • M41a available
      
    • Antonov now realeased baby!
      
    • Mf conquer the island
      
    • Trim25 released
      
    • Apilas v1.1 and kasapanos 5kg v1.1
      
    • Pm-98 and beryl rifle
      
      
    
    
    
  • Off Topic
    
    
    
    • Mid east
    
    
    • Official ofp stuntman thread
      
    • Military Stupidity (reprise)
    • 
      
    • The sniper saga
      
    
    
    
  
  

Massively Multiplayer

Aces High

• URL: http://www.hitechcreations.com
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • News Flash!
    
  
  
  
• Events:
  
  
  
  • Snapshot tonight!
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General:
    
    
    
    • POLL: Hot Restarts for Engines
      
    • I'll show you mine if you show me yours !
      
    • Can we do somthing about this? :-\
      
    
    
  • Aircraft/Vehicles:
    
    
    
    • AH Spitfire Mk V vs AH 190 A5
      
    • whoever modelled the La7....
      
    • Wep and cooling.......
      
    
    
  
  

America's Army

• URL: http://www.americasarmy.com
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • AA:O Review on Gaming Invasion
    
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • General:
    
    
    
    • Positive Karma: Outstanding Players
      
    • Who is in for a game tonight? Only Team players welcome
      
    • Teammates say the craziest things!
      
    • Will Honor points be reset once the exploits are sorted out?
      
    
    
    
  • R&R
    
    
    
    • The Official and Authentic Guide to Running
      
    • WHO ARE YOU? (newcomers plz post)
      
    • ~~~I WANNA SEE SOME WICKED SCRENE SHTS....if you have any!~~~
      
    • THE OFFICIAL BUMP THREAD
      
    
    
  
  

Fighter Ace

• URL: http://fighterace..vr1.com/
  
  
• Events:
  
  
  
  • 10/25/2002 Fox Hunt!! Between 5pm - 8pm PDT and 8pm - 11pm EST
    
  • 10/26/2002 PPP ( Pin Point Parachuting) 12 Noon Pacific, 3 Pm Eastern
    
  • Kings Of The Sky (KOTS) 4 Pm Pacific, 7 Pm Eastern
    
  • 10/27/2002 Canyon Races!! 3pm PDT
    
  
  

WarBirds

• URL: http://www.totalsims.com
  
  
• All Warbirds (II & III) Events:
  
  
  
  • October 2002 Calendar
  
  
  
  

WWII Online

• URL: Playnet Site 1
  
• URL: Playnet Site 2
  
  
• News:
  
  
  
  • Inside Mac Games interviews MO
    
  • Welcome the Stars and Stripes
    
  • Yatta2 and Dunkirk Out Now!
    
  • Battle of Dunkirk Video Soon!
    
  • 
    
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • The Barracks:
    
    
    
    • [GHC] An Invitation from the XV. Panzerkorps
      
    • Join "The Storm Troopers" apply at SGHQ.COM
      
    • GMT based players, US time zone don’t matter a 24/7 squad (BKB) needs you!
      
    
    
  • The Harbour:
    
    
    
    • DOC, GOPHUR, Rats - Naval Gameplay Improves with these CPs.
      
    • It is Naval Tradition to keep this YELLOW folder on page 1.....
      
    • Photo Gallery For The New Forums--Naval Aviation
      
    
    
  • The Hangar:
    
    
    
    • JG53 is seeking dedicated new recruits to fly the Bf 110, He 111 and the Ju 87
      
    • October Ju88 post. Ju88 sheep lovers enter HERE!
      
    • *** - All UK Players Read - ***
      
    
    
  • The Motor Pool:
    
    
    
    • CRS: Increase 88 loadout.
      
    • CRS: Vehicle Damage Value (fishing for yellow)
      
    • CRS Is time to adjust AT gun speeds?Good stuff in here CRS both sides agree
      
    
    
  
  

Usenet

Flight-sim Usenet

• URL: Click Here
  
  
• Discussions:
  
  
  
  • Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize
    
  • OT-OT- IRAQ/Bin Laden paranoia
    
  • Real Humans
    
  
  

Controllers

Cougar World

• URL: http://cougar.frugalsworld.com/
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
  
  • Why mod?
    
  
  
  
• Forums:
  
  
  
  • Poll: How satisfied are you with your Cougar
    
  • Covers For your Cougars!!!
  
  
  
  
  
• Cougar Hardware / Firmware Issues:
  
  
  
  • *Mods and Tweaks*
    
  • Upgrade to Cougar HS kit available
  
  
  
  

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