Simulation & wargame blather
By Tim Stone on April 26th, 2013.
The Flare Path lights are dimmed today, the wind socks are at half mast. Jim Mackonochie, one of the most influential, approachable, and well-liked figures in flight simulation died on Tuesday. If you’ve flown a faithfully simulated military jet at any point during the last quarter century, there’s a good chance you’ve enjoyed a game that Jim signed or nurtured. Though most closely associated with Eagle Dynamics creations like Flanker and DCS World, his combination of unquenchable aero enthusiasm and incomparable industry experience also Pavewayed the way for the Falcon series and the early Rowan sims. Read the rest of this entry »
Conflict of Heroes: Ghost Division, Farming Simulator, Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm, giants software, Jim Mackonochie, Piercing Fortress Europa, Qvadriga, Slitherine, The Flare Path.
simulation & wargame news
By Tim Stone on June 1st, 2012.
Due to some last-minute legal threats from the wet blankets at Wiltshire County Council, the Flare Path Diamond Jubilee street party (this Sunday, 13.00-22.00!) won’t be featuring bunting made from real buntings, an under-12s scythe leaping competition, or a low-level fly past by old Miss Musters in her half-scale Airspeed Elizabethan. The local government killjoys are also insisting we use pasteurised pigs’ blood in our Charles I execution re-enactment, and have all the badgers in our badger-hauled Boadicea races checked for TB. It seems bureaucracy trumps tradition in today’s health-and-safety obsessed Britain. Read the rest of this entry »
BMS, chariots, Falcon 4.0, free, Qvadriga, The Flare Path, Turnopia.
