Re: FS on a laptop

[straker]

Hi Dennis (and Pete),

Hey, its nice to know you guys are still monitoring the traffic here. I know
the posts have become pretty thin of late, but when I realised that the
American Airlines story hadn't hit this hangar I thought maybe everyone had
gone! I still do most of my development and test work with FS5, and I guess
I'll keep it even if I move up to FS2000.

I'd be interested to hear how you get on with installing the joystick on a
laptop. I had a lot of problems with that a few months ago. The drivers were
installed correctly and Windows said they were working OK but the machine just
wouldn't recognise the stick. Eventually I discovered that the stick port was
disabled in the BIOS!

Richard

Hello, Richard,
Truth be known, I haven't fooled with it much yet. I have a little
Toshiba Portege 3025. It has an auxiliary gizmo that allows hookup with
printer and big keyboard (both of which I've got functioning, if I want
them). The CH joystick wasn't plug-'n'-play because its plug was different
from the gizmo's, and that's where I left it. I'll keep you posted if
I try again and figure out what works. -- Dennis S, FSEngEd@AOL.COM

from pete
I tried fs5.1 and 98 on 2 lap tops....besides the video card problems
the games port was not working out at all....plus the frame rate on the
lcd screen was draggy....
I ended up just blowing it out...
pete

[einstein]

Hi Dennis (and Pete),

Hey, its nice to know you guys are still monitoring the traffic here. I know
the posts have become pretty thin of late, but when I realised that the
American Airlines story hadn't hit this hangar I thought maybe everyone had
gone! I still do most of my development and test work with FS5, and I guess
I'll keep it even if I move up to FS2000.

I'd be interested to hear how you get on with installing the joystick on a
laptop. I had a lot of problems with that a few months ago. The drivers were
installed correctly and Windows said they were working OK but the machine just
wouldn't recognise the stick. Eventually I discovered that the stick port was
disabled in the BIOS!

Richard

Hello, Richard,
Truth be known, I haven't fooled with it much yet. I have a little
Toshiba Portege 3025. It has an auxiliary gizmo that allows hookup with
printer and big keyboard (both of which I've got functioning, if I want
them). The CH joystick wasn't plug-'n'-play because its plug was different
from the gizmo's, and that's where I left it. I'll keep you posted if
I try again and figure out what works. -- Dennis S, FSEngEd@AOL.COM

from pete
I tried fs5.1 and 98 on 2 lap tops....besides the video card problems
the games port was not working out at all....plus the frame rate on the
lcd screen was draggy....
I ended up just blowing it out...
pete

Pete,

I got FS5.1 running reasonably well on a laptop with a 266MHz Pentium. I don't
really use it for serious flying - its just part of a portable scenery design
setup. The frame rate isn't too bad, and I had no video problems, but I've
never got the sound right and I get occasional program crashes. The problem is
that I can't seem to get full extended memory support with Windows 98 on the
laptop, no matter how many times I rewrite the autoexec.bat and config.sys
files. Still, it's OK for its purpose.

Richard

[straker]

Hi Dennis (and Pete),

Hey, its nice to know you guys are still monitoring the traffic here. I know
the posts have become pretty thin of late, but when I realised that the
American Airlines story hadn't hit this hangar I thought maybe everyone had
gone! I still do most of my development and test work with FS5, and I guess
I'll keep it even if I move up to FS2000.

I'd be interested to hear how you get on with installing the joystick on a
laptop. I had a lot of problems with that a few months ago. The drivers were
installed correctly and Windows said they were working OK but the machine just
wouldn't recognise the stick. Eventually I discovered that the stick port was
disabled in the BIOS!

Richard

Hello, Richard,
Truth be known, I haven't fooled with it much yet. I have a little
Toshiba Portege 3025. It has an auxiliary gizmo that allows hookup with
printer and big keyboard (both of which I've got functioning, if I want
them). The CH joystick wasn't plug-'n'-play because its plug was different
from the gizmo's, and that's where I left it. I'll keep you posted if
I try again and figure out what works. -- Dennis S, FSEngEd@AOL.COM

from pete
I tried fs5.1 and 98 on 2 lap tops....besides the video card problems
the games port was not working out at all....plus the frame rate on the
lcd screen was draggy....
I ended up just blowing it out...
pete

Pete,

I got FS5.1 running reasonably well on a laptop with a 266MHz Pentium. I don't
really use it for serious flying - its just part of a portable scenery design
setup. The frame rate isn't too bad, and I had no video problems, but I've
never got the sound right and I get occasional program crashes. The problem is
that I can't seem to get full extended memory support with Windows 98 on the
laptop, no matter how many times I rewrite the autoexec.bat and config.sys
files. Still, it's OK for its purpose.

Richard

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well...from pete..I know the feeling about win 98...it just (dont) like fs5.1..

and HI HI its a microsoft product too!!!!but it runs on the win 95 rig i have
for my daughter...

AS for fs5.1 being dead...well...I see it for $15 IN TOY WORKS and the boxes
keep comming in and I saw the 3inch disk version in EB the other day for $5.00
for a dead program its got plenty of kids....

I was in comp-usa the other day and i saw a Thrustmaster top gun joy stick
with a USB port instead of the x,y axis analog game port...may be thats the
way to go on a high end lap top....i didnt see the price...but hey,,,say $50
for fun........


pete
with a YSB port instead of a xy joy stick game port