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"Wrongway Corrigan" wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:41:35 GMT, "ANTHONY ROTHSCHILD"
wrote:

hi,
using FS98 -i downloaded Real Weather
can one run Real Weather with FS98 ?

No.


Ihave tried to use the download but no success. Dont know what to do with
Metar.

Give it up. Microsoft no longer supports FS98 or anything out of that
line (now defunct) .... sorry to say.

Funny that, it's still being sold retail, in a "budget" edition, in the
UK. Not directly by Microsoft, but not quite dead. Spomtimes just
FS98, sometimes in a double-pack with CFS1. And there were a couple of
cheap releases of FS98 add-ons.

I shall have to do some rummaging, as there definitely was a program for
using Metar data in FS98. It's been a couple of years since I did
anything serious with FS98, and I don't know what's still out there on
websites. I distinctly recall using Metar data.

I'd agree that FS98 is a dead end now, and you're stuck with what's
still floating around as freeware, but it doesn't need a super-machine
to run. It's good enough to be a decent taster of civil flight-simming.



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