12fly,
It may be hard for you to imagine, but it's true. I'm helping my friends in the Ukraine. I still remember how it feels when you don't have enough cash to buy your child a fruit...
And I'll find a way to pay my taxes in full. I'm an American citizen and I'm proud of it. Though it may be hard for you to imagine too.
Boris

12fly
You still haven't answered my question. I think you are just quoting some big words that you heard and don't even know the meaning of

12fly thats a cop-out and you know it. The next time keep your nose out of things you don't understand.

Enough of the personal stuff and get the thread back on track. I'm not going to allow this to continue in the forum. If you want to continue in this manner take it to emails please.

Cable??

http://fms1.mattclement.com

Do you have the cables for a JR or Hitech Radio?? Thanks John

Guys,

This isn't a forum for posting commercial sites selling cables. I have no problem with you talking about the cable you bought or where you bought it but I really don't want commercial advertising here. If you have a question about cables that someone is talking about please email the author.

It's a really fine line weather a post is commercial or not and I don't want to have to make that decision. I'd appreciate it if you could kind of self police yourselves and save me the trouble of editing or deleting posts if I feel it is necessary.

I have the luxury of being pretty much a total dullard about RC flight sims (and about everything else in RC flight : -( ) and therefore have no pre-concieved notions or opinionated/emotional baggage which would serve to make me take sides in some "my gear and opinions rule, and yours are garbage" type discussion. That said , it is abundantly clear to me that the "12" something or other guy is whistling Dixie, and "Bluesky" could write the book (and probably has!) on a whole range of technical issues that most of the rest of us barely know exist. I say Bravo!, Bluesky, and keep up the good work!Kudos also, to you for the work and support you are providing to your friends in the Ukraine. I can only imagine the tough time they are having over there. Glen Priest

ok ok But I am not Clement. I don't know him and I don't benefit from anything on the site. I just ran across the site and thought someone would like to know. I will cease and desist. I thought I was helping a starving student out!

Mea culpa!

Well, KEEEERRRAAAAAPPPP! I just laboriously typed out a message to you and evidently lost it! I HAVE had several exchanges with Matt Clement at OSU about getting a set of his cables, and am looking for something which will run Cockpit Master as well as FMS.
I DID have a burr under my saddle blanket about some comments in the "FMS Rocks!" thread by "12 Fly" or something directed to "BlueSky" who has two earned PHD's as well as undergrad and Master's degrees in some very arcane (to ME, but then I know notheeeeng! :- )) engineering areas, as well as teaching and research experience both round the US and in Russia.
It seemed to me the 12 guy was making unseemly personal attacks on "BlueSky", and that the latter was one very classy person. I'm sure he didn't need MY puny defense, but it seemed right to say something. I don't know how the two threads got tangled, but they evidently did. Sorry! Glen Priest

To get this thread back on track, I have a parallel interface cable that worked just fine on my old computer (win95, 233 p1, 16MB vid card), but I does not work on the new one. My new computer has XP, does it not support the parallel port interface? Will a serial interface work, and my apologies for asking, Mr. Moderator, does anyone know where I can get a serial interface that will definitely work with XP?

airwethead,

The problem with parallel/serial FMS interface cables is that FMS can't access them in any NT-type OS (Windows NT, 2000, XP), so, these interface options are disabled in FMS under XP.

The only two cable types working under XP are:
1) FMS specific PIC based cable, whose main advantage is that it provides as many proportional channels as your TX has (up to 8).
2) TX-to-Joystick cable. Disadvantage - only 4 proportional channels (no good for heli dudes); advantage - works with any Windows based sim, which supports joystick control. (I'm flying with such a joystick interface in Windows 2000).

Hope this helps,
Boris

Yes, that does shed a little light on the subject, but I am still left in the dark about how to get/make an interface cable. Any info about either of these options would be greatly appreciated!

OK, I just went back and read the first post in this thread (DUH) and followed the link about the PIC cables. That should work.
Thanks everybody!

Hi airwethead,

Check out FMS home page and click "Forum" at
http://n.ethz.ch/student/mmoeller/fms/index_e.html
I built one of the parallel interface described under
Parallelport-PPM-Interface for my JR. With earlier versions
of FMS, the controls were jumpy as if there were lots of
noise coming from the line. But it works great with the newest
beta version of FMS. I'm on windows 98SE.
Good luck.

That's the one I built... Worked great... I bought the kit and soldered it together in my garage...I'm running Windows 2k

CaptinJohn....

I just checked out the FMS site (http://n.ethz.ch/student/mmoeller/fms/index_e.html) and there seems to be people running Pentium 166's and the program works fine (so they say). The download is just over 6MB and the files once unzipped will be around 20MB.

This is a great sim and you can't beat it for the money. The major complaint with it at present is that with Futaba tx's there is is noise and the planes tend to be a bit jerky (which is fine with me - acts like flying in the wind and keep you on your toes).

Hope this helps you out,
Vance

I have a P2 233MHZ, just like yours and FMS runs just fine for me. No glitches or anything. I'm going to try to build an interface to work with my JR radio today and see how it works with that. I'm currently using my Microsoft Sidewinder joystick.

jetSD: Do you thihk a Gravis BlackHawk controll stick will work? Thanks John