abacus stuff

[F-16Viper]

look at http://www.abacuspub.com/ if you want to know what im talking about

[Gunny04]

FS Whirly Birds looks good, Not being a helo nut (Not enough of em in FS) Cheers, Gunny

[SilverFox441]

FSDS is the best...  ;D

[Alphajet_Enthusiast]

Whirlybirds is actually quite horrible.

I have the "Military aviation" and "Civil aviation" Abacus multipacks published by Easy Computing.

Afterwards I had this feeling of having been ripped off...  :-/

However, the carriers in Flightdeck III, arrcab, and WWII carrier ops made it all worthwile...

+ there is a pretty decent A380 model included in the "Civil aviation" pack, for which the exterior is superior to the wilco A380, trust me.  ;)

Flight Deck III is their best product, but they are generally rubbish... If you are into "softcore" simming, alphasim is more like it...

[Felix/FFDS]

WW2 Carrier Ops, of course, is the ABSOLUTE BEST product that Abacus has out... FSDS is a close second..

That Hellcat is a freaking work of art!1












1Anyone criticizing that Hellcat in WW2 Carrier Ops is subject to suffering my eternal ire!

[Gary R.]

I remember their Corporate Pilot collection for FS-2000.  Since then they haven't made anything even close to that one.  I spoke with an Abacus employee at Avsim Convention 2003 @ KRDG (MAAM) in Reading and he admited that Abacus purposely went the way of mass produced low to medium quality add-ons to be marketed in the software stores that the average novice simmer would be interested in to just jump in and fly about.  The hardcore simmer is way above their target customer base.  It's a darn shame.

[SilverFox441]

I'd comment on the Hellcat in WWII Carrier Ops...but it's the only plane Abacus doesn't want to show on the website.  :-[

In all likelyhood, it's just a clerical error.

What they do show I can almost identify as to designer, the names are all well known members of the community.

[Felix/FFDS]

[quote]I'd comment on the Hellcat in WWII Carrier Ops...but it's the only plane Abacus doesn't want to show on the website.

[F-16Viper]

Abacus F6F-3

Hmmm - actually, the basic model is mine, finished by Massimo Taccoli and flight dynamics by Dennis Seeley.

*awed* wow...

[SilverFox441]

I'm having a hard time believing you had anything to do with that Felix...

Not a twisted poly to be seen!

Seriously,

Good job!

I've not released much, but I've been talking to you and the crowd at that "other" site (Free Flight Design Shop) since AF99 days...finally get to see something from one of the masters.

[Felix/FFDS]

I'm having a hard time believing you had anything to do with that Felix...

Fooled ya good, didn't I?

Just remember, it was the basic model that I did.  Massimo (who's done a number of models for Abacus, also) teaked it to look good, plus he did the VC.

I've not released much, but I've been talking to you and the crowd at that "other" site (Free Flight Design Shop) since AF99 days...finally get to see something from one of the masters.

[KDSM]

I like  Jet City Aircraft.
No VC's but otherwise very detailed