I'd very much like to take a look Pete, I would have thought many others would too!

I suppose a "Simviation Archive" is the next addition then! 

Me too!! Sounds great!!!

Why not put up an "Old times" page to look back in the past!

OK - I uploaded the files to a folder & here they are......

http://www.simviation.com/thestrip/flightsimdownload.htm


Wonder if anyone here was here then?? Doubt it...... Doug may remember.... ??

Thanks Pete, I often wondered on the old "Ultraboard" what the Strip was... Now I know!

From little Acorns......  As the saying go's.........

"Green-Turtle" - lol

WOW, thats even before I got here.  I remember first comming here when I got CFS1 from my firend Adam about 2 or 3 years ago, I think it was in Sept. 1999 when I met him in my first week of high school.  I guess that was about a year after this all started.  I can't believe I've been around here for that long.

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The Strip looks like a great site.  Things were so much simpler then.  I wish I'd found your site back then and got in on FS before the information overload and grown with the FS boom.  Having just started, I'm pretty overwhelmed by it all now   Thanks for all you did back then, Pete, and all you are doing now.

I presume you're going to put the Strip link in a more prominent place that this thread ???

Gosh! I thught Simviation started out as Simviation. I remember the night I found Simviation...

   Boredom overran the boy as he sat in the livingroom, wondering what he could do on this late summer's eve. He lowered the legprop of the recliner and proceeded towards the computer room. The farmiliar sign-on noises filled his ears. This sound used to annoy him, until he finally got used to it. He had gotten FS 2000 for Christmas, and had been getting his extra aircraft from another site.
   He had always had an interest in airplanes, but had only known that FS existed only when he opened up that heavy package from under the tree, while his mother's eyes gleamed bright, knowing she had purchased the right gift for her son.
   Once online, he commenced a long, hard search for a decent aircraft site, when he saw a link on about the tenth page, among all of the others that for some reason alien to the boy told him to click there. When he did click there, he discovered a whole new world that he would be involved with for two years, and many more to come.

                             Thanks, Pete!

That looked like a trip back into the past!!

Too bad I wasn't involved with add-ons yet at the time. Came only when "The Strip" got the name "Simviation", and I believe I found this wonderful place when I typed "F-104" in Altavista seach.....

What did I find?? I found loads and loads of high-quality files found nowhere else, of course a lot of good friends.

Hey All

I didn't find this site in such a poetic way either.

I was bored at college one day and decided to take advantage of my only acess to a high speed internet connection. I was attacking the search engines to find information on a 747-400 that I was considering as my final, end of year project.

I came across the aircraft information part of the simviation site first, and almost immediatly dismissed it as I followed a link on the page to a different site.

When I was done with the other pages I looked for other links on the simviation page and was completley swallowed in by it, and I haven't really left since.

And thats how I discovered simviation.com

So thank you Pete for running up my phone bills and giving me square eyes from staring at VGA's all day long   j/k

Wee Davie

P.S. I didn't continue with the 747, it's now a P-51D I'm making.

I found "The Strip" while doing a search a couple of weeks ago!

It looked a bit familier in layout, but at the time I couldn't quite place it.

I almost had a heart attack when I found out it was yours there Pete!

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hehehe ... I hope you are joking - ...
'the strip' isn't on the web except on a folder at this site & if you found it through a search engine I'd be both astonished & puzzled. I've yet to know any search engine that is more than 6 months up to date on this site!!! I only put 'the strip' up a couple of weeks ago .....
'Google' for instance is way out of date in referencing this site.

Thats an interesting site!!! I'm going to try find a few of my own there....

And Simviation doesn't look bad!! 2 years ago? Whew!!

I remember that one, it sure brings back memories. 

Dare we ask WHAT were you searching for that you got "The Strip" as a 'hit'??? 


If Pete started "The Strip" does that make him the original "Stripper"  ...  If his name were Jack, do we call him "Jack the Stripper" ???





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I say post it up.  Althouh I have only been going to this site since last summer, This has Simviation has been my main stop for anyth FS and I would really like to see how simviation started out

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LOL!

I was doing a search for Flight Simulator Downloads on AOL Search and I found Simviation on the 3rd page (up to date as well!) and much later on there was thing called "The Strip", but the web adress was something like www.simviation.com/thestrip/fsdownloads.htm, so I entered and I found lots of FS98 downloads and was a bit shocked at that!

Not that it really matters because we are going this way >>>>, not <<<<<, but it would be interesting to watch archive.org try to claim an infringement of copyright by a site/domain owner!
You simply cannot claim copyright on already copyrighted material.
Like I say - it's not an issue in simviation's case - but I can imagine archive.org is also claiming copyright on news sites' moments of history!! Or maybe it isn't......

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Somebody may have just done this (name possibly starting with a "P" ), because when I search there now for Simviation.com, it says it hasn't been archived.

It is a tribute to all the hard work Pete, Grumpy and others have put into this site.  I had no idea what I was getting myself into after I purchased FS2k2 and found Simviation.com.  I know I've been a pain in the side at times, but I certainly appreciate all the help!  Grumpy you are extremely gracious and generous for all your responses and help you've provided for me and many, many others.    I have learned so much about my computer, files, configurations, etc,. Just reading the forum responses.     Thanks  Tim.

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Now that you mention it, I guess it wouldn't make any sense to remove the pages from the archive site, since there's no possibility of a fight over copyrights. ???  I just mentioned it before because they seemed to disappear just as we were discussing it on this topic.  

I see now they're back again; that is, when I go to http://www.archive.org and type in "simviation.com," I get a neat chart of Simviation web pages laid out by year.  Maybe they never were gone and some kind of glitch kept me from finding them.  (I double checked my spelling, etc., and couldn't find anything wrong.  There is an "archive.com" site, but I'm sure I didn't go there.)  

Anyway, I'm glad they're there--it's nice to be able to browse the old pages and see how the site developed .

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I thoght it might be something like that.

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I don't use one, Bazza, but I usually read over my posts, so I'm sure you'll catch me in miss steaks from time to time .  Actually, I think I saw that one right after it was posted, and I thought to myself (who on earth else would I think to?), "Maybe I'm not really that anal-retentive, maybe I'll just let that one go like the big boys do."  I see now that that was a mistake .
It seams seems like a little trouble to me to type my posts into a word processor, spell-check 'em, then paste them into the forum reply screen, but maybe not.  I'm thinking about giving it a try.  Also I'm thinking about downloading Fozzer's "spellwrite" program. 

Keep up the vigilance ,
Doug

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We noticed...... 


Thats a joke!!! 

Your input IS appreciated - Really!  8)

Those graphics bring up so many flight hours logged.
I flew a majority out of Hawaii to the other islands.  I had a King Air B200 which I flew the most for FS98/2000 (Which I can't use on FS2002 because of some third party BS)  I had a Caravan and a few Citations.  Memories, memories.  Almost a hundered hours logged.  I remember once, I was a Meigs with a Northwest Airlines 747-400 and managed to taxi to the very end of the runway and apply the revercers to back up to the very edge of the land and water where I applyed full brake and full thottle to initiate a snap roll and then I let her go and lowered full flaps and took off about 10 feet before I hit the water on the other side.  CRAZY HUH?

MIKE (KingairB200)

i didnt know who pete was until a week or two ago when i saw him posting., I just never was able to put a nickname to simviation. Pete you need to post a pic of your self so we know whos handling our precious addons and forums

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I'm afaid it may have only seemed to have been accurate.

In reality Google is pretty behind on it's updating & was constantly throwing up old outdated pages where the links weren't working. I was getting so many complaints as a result. ... in short it was a nightmare..... but of course if you want to irritate yourself you can add google to your toolbar & still 'search this site' (    ) ... & just don't write to me about links not working from Google results.

Google is not a bad search engine in general but you'd be missing out on some of the best sites on the net if it is all you use.

I guess I could frase my finding of Simviation in a poetic manner but it would propbably bore you all stiff. Oh well, here it goes (if you can really call it poetic). I first found Simviation.com when I was browsing the net for something like "FS2000 downloads" in early 2000. I had previously that week or so found sites like Flightsim and Avsim and was going insane from not being able to work out how to download files succesfuly ( I knew nothing of Winzip). I stumbled across a link reading "Simviation.com" and clicked it. I was amazed at the quality of the site and it's graphics as soon as I saw the main menu. Thanks so much Pete for building Simviation.com and making the present under the Christmas tree so worth it.

I got started in the Forums probably a few days later and made lots of new friends and found out so much about the simming world. If I hadn't found Simviation I would have never made a good start on FS2000 and I now realize how much joy this site has brought me, and obviously many others. I have learned so much about my PC and had loads of fun along the way. It I hadn't made that search at this very moment I would probably be blowing up aliens this very moment on my PC.

No offence to you of course Pete but I think I prefered the Simviation look of 2000, not that I don't like it now. 
Biggles...

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1st - thanks for the comments. 
I can't remember what the graphics were like in 2000 but we were at that time partnered by a Canadian group called Rydium who re-designed the site & were goi g to do a lot more. One problem was they made the pages far too heavy in terms of graphics - the main page alone was over 100K before input. With the dot com bust the whole thing became a nightmare, hosting especially & the finances were never paid either so eventually I broke with them.
The site design is fluid & always changing. It's not really my area but I do my best. I agree completely it could be improved a lot. The main thing I concentrate on is navigation which I try to make as easy as possible - without anything being too deep into the site & lightweight graphics to make pages easy to navigate.

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I knew sending you a photo was a mistake Felix. OK I may be purple, have a waist like a balloon &  a face like dinosaur - but hey - looks are superficial.

Hey Pete, are you changing the layout again for FS2004 COF.
You had the strip for FS98, http://www.simviation.com/]http://web.archive.org/web/19990508053948/http://www....[/url] for FS2000 and "YaBB" Simviation for FS2002

Wow I am impressed as well Pete.. you sure have done a great job on here.. thank you for getting this going for  everyone.. I for one love this site. never thought I would say that about a flying site.. thumbs up all the way.........

Woohoo, took me a bit to find this post
Yeah, memories, although not as old as the site.
It was late '99 when I bought myself FS2000 for this new computer, my first actually, a PIII 450.
I was caught by the CD's advertisement that one could download literally thousands of planes off the internet.
Made my way to the MSFS site as provided on the box and found this link site there.
Of the many sites, I found Simviation the easiest to use and browse. it had loads of tutorials to get a beginner like me going.
Got myself CFS short after and learned apprechiating the most extensive CFS download area of this site, and again, the excellent tutos of a certain Doug Atrell.
Pete and Doug, time to give you both guys a big thumbs up and a warmest thank you.

This is a bumper, but it does deserves it!

This is how simv started!

so its interesting for all!

Cheers Theis

Lovely site...I am addicted very badly

The part that worries me the most, is the fact that I am now 10 years older since the time that I first peeked into Simviation... ...!

I now need a Time Machine to teleport me back again....
...and make me 10 years younger...
..please... ...!

Paul.... ...!

I hadn't even regained my interest in aviation at that point!

I found SimV quite a few years later when I was in year 10 (IIRC) at High School. It was a bit naughty in fact as I was meant to be doing work at the time

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thats how i found it  

Incredible.....

I came here fairly recently myself, but as far as modding FS, way back with '98 I got myself a copy of Abacus Flightdeck 1, and I just thought that was the coolest, at the time, I had no Idea that regular people could make planes for Flight sim.  I kept on buying those Abacus CDs practically every time I went to Fry's.  I found Simv, and all these other sites rather accidentally, one day I was just surfing GlobalSecurity.org ,yes you read right, and I followed a link to a site with a Downloadable Firefox, which linked to AVSIM, which I promptly got board with so I just googled FS addons and found Simv and that was only three years ago now, and now I can't stop!

Wow, that site looks old  ! I used Simviation since FS2002 and it looks much different now, and in 2002 compared to 98.