FS98 - thinking of shedding...

[RollerBall]

Hmmmmm

Where would we scenery designers get aircraft for static scenery if all the FS98 and FS5 stuff disappeared? Would you believe I've just had to reinstall FS98 on my system so I could use the FS98 converter to make a static scenery macro that I needed (FS5 A6 Prowler).

I know it's a bit of a specialised thing and there are guys like Mike Hill with quite a bit of stuff on his site, but it's already becoming tough to find good material. Simviation has one of the best (if not the best) databases of FS98 material. Not all of it is suitable but when it's wiped the good goes the same way as the not so.

How much disk space is actually involved Pete? Might not be on because of cost and logistics but might a disk dump be possible so I could put stuff on my own (sorry - private) server?

[Fozzer]

My disk of FS '98 sits amongst all my other games, (including all the later flight sims), and I would hate to see the thread disappear. It's a nice Simviation record of early flight sims and probably has plenty of enthusiasts left, (...like me with my Sinclair Spectrum games)...LOL...!
I don't know...If it doesn't take up too much necessary space, then keep it going for a while, and see what happens...!
Like the old "Homebase" quote,...."When it's gone, it's gone",...then it's too late... ...!

Cheers all...!

Paul. ....enthusiast for all "old" computer stuff... ...!
LOL...!

[Saitek]

Can't you get rid of it to another site of it's own?
It would help speed up the site if you got rid of it. This site is getting slower I think.
I have no time for the 98 sim. It was a poor show from Microsoft, especially when compared with Flight Unlimited. Flight Unlimited is just as old, yet it rivals the 2002 sim pretty well considering.
And it's only

[Bazza]

There are clearly arguments either way but it looks like Pete is thinking towards tretaining it.

Others have mentioned the matter of dropping off older posts - is this viable, or are there reasons both technical and/or social for retaining them at length ?  I know it means you could sort back thru them looking for a previous subject you had seen but does anyone do this ?     Certainly not the "newbies" as the same questions have been put regularly over the years.

[crazyplanesmasher]

Remove the FS98 pages? I remember 5 years ago when that's all this site had. Keep them, although there isin't that many new files being produced,  people are still downloading the old ones.

[Saitek]

Go on Pete, go ahead. It'll speed up the site and free up lots more space. That should make running it cheaper too, shouldn't it?
Regards,
Ben

[GeForce]

Ben,

Yes it would make it cheaper to run, because it would use less disk space & bandwidth. However, all the people who use this site for FS98 stuff will be forced out and have to go to another (rival) site. We don't want that, do we?

IMHO we should keep the pages. There is a lot of good stuff there that a lot of visitors download (me included).

Jonathan

[Saitek]

Hi Jonathan!
But could not Pete remove the posts in the forum? and sift through the downloads to leave just the best ones. Getting rid of the posts would be a great start.
There is so much stuff on there that hardly anyone uses. I really think that it should be axed. Even if the download section is kept until the next version of FS at least the posts should be dumped.
Come to terms here, the 2000 sim is selling on ebay for about

[GeForce]

Hi Ben!

Yes, I agree that a lot of the older FS98 posts should be deleted. As for choosing only the best files to keep, quality is a matter of opinion. So I think we should dump a lot of the old FS98 posts, but keep all the files for the moment. I think the only time to get rid of them is when nobody downloads them any more.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[pubba]

I am very new to this site and have just picked up fs/98 for very cheap,not continuing with 98 could cost new flight simmers a chance to experiance this new world of flight sims

[pete]

1st - for some folk that seemed to think I was referring to the FS98 forum - no...  ::)  ;)

I was talking about the FS98 side of the site .. & I have been admirably persuaded not to do so.

So - like I said earlier in the thread ..... it stays ....  ;)