Virtual sailing

[Tim B]

SafeWalrus,

1440 x 900 19" TFT Widescreen.

Yes, my screen's really big!

Tim B.

[Mychael]

Trev, sorry you misunderstood me. I purchased the game from a pc store. The game would not run properly on my Pc.
As an aside I have Opera but find Firefox a more user friendly browser to use.

Mychael

[Tim B]

I tried VS 4 some time ago and it needed a pretty major machine with a damn good graphics card to run it at half-reasonable resolution.

But if you've got a machine of that spec it's amazing.

Tim B.

[Bergalia]

Hey, fellers - I've just won the Americas Cup......

[Trevlyns]

Wot? In this?

[safewalrus]

Yeah it took him some time to do it! (was the 1913 race! did they have one then? best ask Bergalia; he was around then so he'd know!!)

[safewalrus]

Originally Posted by Trevlyns

Safewalrus and Mychael (and anyone else interested) – why not go to http://www.opera.com/ and download their FREE browser. There’s a really neat button called “fit to width” which instantly sorts out these bugg**s who post huge Jpeg’s. And you can configure it to eliminate the popup crap you usually get with Internet Explorer to boot!

Hope it's worth it buddy! I just downloaded and installed it! All I got to do now is figure how to use it!!

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by Trevlyns

Wot? In this?

[Trevlyns]

Quote safewalrus… All I got to do now is figure how to use it!!

Start with Tools>Preferences (or Cntrl+F12). You can sort a whole array of things there including the popup control.

To get the Fit to Width button up, hit Cntrl+F8 or in the old money, View>Toolbars and tick the Address Bar box.

Take care!

[harlemriverman]

Originally Posted by Bergalia

Here's a thought. There are a multitude of computer games/programmes offering 'virtual' life-like and real-time situations: Flight simulators - Big game hunting and fishing games. Has anyone thought of producing a 'virtual' sailing programme (for the winter evening armchair sailer) which would include varying weather/sea conditions; sail settings; navigation etc. Or am I so far behind the times that I've missed them.

I can imagine how you might be able to fasten a cup holder to the mouse for your icy cold beer effect, but how do you simulate the passed out drunken sailor on auto pilot effect without the computer hibernating!?!

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by harlemriverman

...but how do you simulate the passed out drunken sailor on auto pilot effect without the computer hibernating!?!

Errrr, sorry harlemriverman - The term drunken sailor is new to me