>I only have a tape drive! And should I buy a NEW RF>Converter since I have a lot of snow on the one I have now.>Also, sometimes I see CBS on channel 3 when waiting to load>turtle basic. I heard that I should be ok with 8K of ram, is>this true?>>>I forgot that the tab on the cord to the handset of my phone>is broken so sometimes I lose my connection to my 300 baud>modem or someone in the house picks up the other phone. Do>you think it will take long to get the demo? Thanks for>helping.>>Carmine http://forums.avsim.net/images/wave.gifI have terrible visions now of BBS driven multiplayer flight sim.>>PULL STICK BACK..you slowly gain altitude, while slowing down.>>LOOK LEFT..Looking out your left cockpit window, you see a BOEING 737-800 flying towards you at high speed.>>EVADE 737-800..I don't understand that command.>>FLY AWAY FROM 737..You can't fly a AWAY.The BOEING 737-800 is very close now.>>JUMP OUT..You are eaten by a Grue.

Oh my god I almost fell out of my chair. Oh the memories...>> look at glareshieldYou see nothing special.You have 99 moves left.>> look at HSIIt looks normal.You have 98 moves left.

It's my guess that the full version (although further optimized) will place a higher load on the system due to it being the complete package. If the demo is just St Maarten and the nearby surroundings then there's a good bit of stuff not being loaded.That said, I don't believe the demo will be the end-all test package to see how our machines will run FSX... but I'm not MS and could be very wrong. Maybe Mike can chime in and help us understand what type of load the demo exerts compared to the full monte.DougDell XPS Gen3 (3.6GHz/800FSB) | 2GB DDR SDRAM | 74GB SATA, 10k RPM (C: ) | 120GB SATA (D: ) | 256MB ATI Radeon X800 XT (Catalyst 6.5) | Audigy 2 ZS Sound | MS Force Feedback 2 | WindowsXP Pro (SP2) | DirectX 9.0c

You guys really need to get into the 32-bit computing world of the 80386. Talk about an AMAZING FS experience.Rhett

>>That said, I don't believe the demo will be the end-all test>package to see how our machines will run FSX... but I'm not MS>and could be very wrong. Maybe Mike can chime in and help us>understand what type of load the demo exerts compared to the>full monte.>Good point Doug. I don't think this demo will be a good way to judge a system. Maybe it will give us some vague idea, but really ultimately I would expect to get more info using the actual sim, than some demo.Having said that, though, I will note with great interest how my system runs the demo. But I will take it with a grain of salt because1) this is not a finished product, and2) it's a pared-down demoRhett