FLY for Mac Users Forum

Upgraded this morning and it seems to be running well. Unfortunately, I forgot to take Fly II benchmarks before updating, but I feel I am seeing an incremental* gain in peformance. Has anyone else checked the "before and after?"According to the docs. CarbonLib 1.6 is for OS 8.6 through 9.X.*small but noticeable if I squint just so! Maybe it's wishful thinking.

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Just picked up a copy of Fly!II and upgraded my new G4 800 mhz tower to 512 meg of ram. With a Radeon 7500 32 meg card I find the frame rate a little low, even with scenery details on lower settings. My question is, will upgrading the ram to 1 ghz, which I was going to do anyway, improve Fly!II or is a 64 meg graphic card the way to go?

I am new to this so please bear with me. I am trying to paint some new liverys for various aircraft in Fly II. I followed the instructions recived in regards to John Wimbush's post (Topic #83) regarding unpoding and poding. I have no problems unpoding using the editor, but when I try to repod from a response file, one of two things happens. Most often Fly II simply crashes to the desktop (error type 2). This happens both in OS 9 and OS X. The second possibility is that I get an alert message saying such and such a file cannot be opened, and Fly II crashes to the desktop. I have tried using the file manager to check to see if all of a pods files are on the local dis…

Just bought FLY!2. The first one (the original FLY!) ran "ok" about 20 FPS with my old 32mb Radeon card. Now I have an 8500 Mac Edition (64mb). I have a G4 dual 450 with 768mb Ram.In OSX the graphic settings show my card as the ATI Radeon 8500 like it should (I set Ram to More than 32mb). Had to apply the update patch to get it to run (it would quit when reading the HID stuff according to the crash log). The update fixed it though and started up fine from there.In OS9 it detects the graphics card as an ATI 3DRage (huh?). No other choices.In cockpit view (with just the top 3 of the main 6 six guages visible in the trainer plane), rolling down the runway, I was gettin…

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Hello everyone. Glad to see some of the testers still around. I've not run Fly II in several months due to family health problems and some nasty System problems that I finally worked out in OS 9.2.2 and 8.6. Except for Fly II it seems!I had to remove almost 40 extensions to get both Systems stable again. I have no idea what I did to cause Fly II to run literally one frame every 5 seconds. Even mouse clicks are that slow. Starting the engine takes almost a minute for it to catch. What gets me is that both Systems are doing the same thing with Fly II. I didn't touch a thing in the Fly II folder, so it can't be that. Anyone have any ideas where to start trying to figure this…

Im curious to know why this forum seems to have lost its appeal. There seems to be very little interest in development.There appears to be hardly any sharing of info or data between us.And even the FLY2k development and discussions seems to have dried up.WHY is this??are you waiting on Rich's patch for FLYII?do you feel rejected by TRI or APPLE for lack of support?or have you gone to pastures NEW because FLYII is un playable?Im interested in your views if you don't discuss such matters, then how do you expect to have them resolved.Regards John

Hi Guys,Does anyone know if its possible to remove the MENU Display bar from the top of the screen while in Flight??Also is there a default FLYII ATC like in Fly2k..and if so how is it activated. I know these may sound stupid questions but Ive tried to locate info about ATC in the Manual PDF, but I can't seem to find any reference to IT...its probably in there somewhere........just me probably, can't see for looking.Thanks Guys.

How do I set up USB Pro Pedals in Fly! 2K? I am confused about which axis to set up as rudder? The forward and back motion shows up as the Y axis, yet I can not select rudder for the z Axis in the control set up. "Rudder" only shows up as a choice in the X/Y axis.Any help would be greatly appreciated. ThanksFly! 2K (Yes the old one)B&W G3 400ATI Rage 1281 gig RAMCH Products USB YokeCH Products USB Pro Pedals (Hopefully)

Hey folks,I finally joined the club...jeez! Better late than never, I guess.Anyhoot, I host & post flights regularly on TradeIP.com's Fly flightboard. Please, feel free to join me in a flight, or two! Also, check with Dave's Flightboards at http://flightboards.4gigs.com/I still don't have Fly II, so I'm still toolin' along with Fly2K! Don't get me wrong...I love it, and will probably never get sick of it!It's made a real pilot out of me...yeeehaw! I got my PPL, and now I'm goin' for Instrument/Commercial...for real!!!Cheers to Doug "Fresh" Myres for giving me this flight simulator back at Club Clearview in Dallas, TX 3 years ago. You live strongly in our memorie…

Hi all,I was just curious about some difference between Fly! II and X-Plane 6.x. So I have some questions in hope someone can answer these for me.- Why are the scenery files of X-Plane mutch smaller than Fly! II? I saw some screen shots of X-Plane and they look rather good.- Why is X-Plane in OSX and OS 9 mutch faster than Fly! II. Is this becouse of the scenery?- Why shouldn't I buy X-Plane?Let me know.ThanksKoen :)

Hi everyone,Is there any MAC guys/gals out there who wish they could contribute to the developement of FLY2k/FLYII......but alas don't know how??For example: how many of you would like to repaint aircraft, but don't have a clue where to start?If you think that you would like to get involved.... please let me know, and also any concerns you may have.Thanks againJohn

I have a very strange set up and need a mac guru to help!I have been using a logitech wingman extreme stick with great results on fly2k. It is originally a gameport model but came with a simple gameport to usb adapter that allows input sprockets to see it and work flawlessly. I now bought a CH pro rudder pedal set which is also game port. The wingman now plugs into the gameport plug on the rudder pedals and the output of the new combined system (which is gameport) goes to the gameport-to-usb adapter and then to the mac. Fly still just sees the wingman and does not recognize the rudders at all. Any ideas?? Thanks!Ben

Being concerned that us MAC guys are going to get left behind again....I'm in the process of putting together one or two projects which HOPEFULLY will encourage MAC flyers to participate and delelop our beloved sim.What I need to know is regarding PANEL building and design which kind of PANEL would YOU prefer to construct??A) Light Aircraft PANELS:( Commercial Jets PANELSPlease let me know by indicating A or B and any comments you may have.Thanks for your time GUYSRegards JohnDC10 ProjectB737-500

Is anyone aware of a utility that will allow us MAC guys to UNPOD and POD. Ive searched the forums and found a post on PODVIEW, but I can't find it anywhere in the library. (so i don't know if its PC or MAC based).If it is PC based (as they usually are) is there anyway it can be convereted for Mac use, because the way I see it if we cannot get into the POD files, then MAC development is history!.Thanks for any infoJohn

I've posted the America West repaint up on the AVSIM server. Would someone be so kind as to download it and see if I'am correct about the RGB/Indexed issue? You'll need to have the Lufthansa/AirOne 737 installed, but you should be able to see the America West without problem. Let me know how successful you are at seeing the repaint.Thanks,Pete

I spent a good part of Friday installing, testing and, yes, debugging a Sonnet Encore G3/500 ZIF upgrade in my beloved beige G3. Going from 300 to 500 is a 60 percent "speed increase." Installation was a snap but I'm still fighting a couple of stability issues.Before making the change, I benchmarked a lot of the programs I have. Just about everything showed improvment, including Fly2K (not yet 100 percent stable with the new ZIF so I'm still testing it). In 2K, external rates that were 22-24 rose to 30+, and cockpit rates are over 10 for the first time ever.Descent 3 Open GL nearly doubled rates, and Falcon 4 in-cockpit rates went from 12-14 before to 18+ after. So it goe…

Dearests,I know, sometime, there are problems with planes dysplaying for Mac users. like you know I want to upload my Citation x,Md80 and B737 this week end, but I'd like let to Mac users to see my plane correctly.I remember,when I maked some aircraft repaints,I received some emails from Mac users that saw planes TRASPARENT.If someboby can say me the reason of this problem,I can try to solve it.Thank you for your informations and a dear regard to all you.Giorgio [email protected]

Me again,I just thought I'd give the Auto-pilot/autoland a try ('Z' keyboard) as in the Fly2k but I can't seem to get it to work. The function must be available in FLYII becuse its listed in the Key settings menu.I seem to get a text message which says Cockpit not active??Any ideasJohn

Hi Guys,Once I purchase FLYII (Mac version), do I have to install the Patches as outlined on the Forums or is this purely for PC owners??I'm running MacOS 9.2 and I expect to receive European version 2.0.216Any information regarding Update/Fixes/Patches ect. would be very much appreciated.Thanks GuysJohn

Hi Greg, thanks for the repyIve attached a script idea for you to have a look at. Just have a ponder over what i'm trying to create and let me know if its something you think can be done either by Flyscripts, Python, C++, Applescripts whatever??)If you'd personally like to get involved I've got a couple of ideas for my B737-500 Project, I'd like to run by you.Thanks John

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Hi Everone,This Introduction will give you an insite into whats involved and what to expect in the following lessons.WHAT YOU WILL NEED: Adobe Photoshop Alladin Stuffit ExpanderTHE SYSTEM:What we intend to do is make a sequence of TEMPLATES for exsisting and future aircraft. The basis of these templates will be color coded and labeled as to which part of the aircraft it textures.GETTING STARTED:What we will do is UP-LOAD to the Forum the following files.A) Aircraft description (example: Boeing 727 - FLY2k):( Photoshop Templates in Folders (Usually 8 in total)WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO DO:First: Download the files (Zip)S…

Does anyone here have experience with rudder pedals and Fly! on the mac? I have a logitech wingman that works well but I would like to add pedals, can I do this with another separate usb port? Thanks!Bets of luck to Rich H on his new project!Ben