Hi Joachim,
good idea I suggest everyone can write abbreviations into here, either with description, or without as question.
Also, there are standard internet abbreviations like OTOH for On The Other Hand. Maybe someon can find a link to a list of those.
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I will make a list of mine here and edit when I get new ideas:
BoB - Battle of Britain. Can mean both the RL (Real Life
) battle and the simulation of it.
CTD - Crash To Desktop means the program closes (with or without error message) and dissappears, so that you see the desktop
LoD - Level of Detail. Current airplane models have tens of thousands of polygons, in other words (IOW) are very detailled. To draw hundreds of them on screen in that detail level would bring even the best current computer to it's knees. So something called Level of Detail is used which means if the airplane is so far away that for example the pitot tube is no longer visible, leave it away to speed rendering up. The lowest LoD can be just a dot.
MSVC - Microsoft Visual C++, the program used to create the BoB exe
MSVC6, MSVC8 - the 6th and 8th (and current) version of MSVC
TIR - TrackIR a hardware that allows you to move your virtual head by moving your real head
. For more see
http://www.naturalpoint.com/
Re the MSFS numbers - I think they officially changed to using the year at some stage (and now changed back?) but the running number has always been there. Does someone have a translation table? Also, what was the first one? I had sublogic flightsim 2 about 15 years ago. This was then bought by MS. Did they resell that or did MS sims start with "3" or what happend? Ok, I am too lazy to look it up myself
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BTW, since you spoke of your upbringing gliding / soaring, I wanted to ask you about it, but like it sometimes is, each day in the morning I think "This day I will ask Joachim" and in the evening "Oh well, "Erst die Arbeit, dann den Schnapps"" (first the work then the fun) :-/
