BELEM/PARA/BRAZIL or An Adventure in Producing Airports out of the Blue. By: Guilherme M. de La Penha, Ph.D. [CIS 73000, 202] Angostura 3269, Apt 402 66.093.040 - Bel‚m, Para Brazil FAX/PHONE: 55-091-226 2281 OFFICE FAX: 55-091-223 4721 Key Words: FS4, ASD, SEE4, Scenery, Enhanced, Belem, Brazil, South America Resume: This documentation refers to files in BELEM.ZIP that contains static and dynamic sceneries, as well as modes and demos for use with FS4/ASD depcting the city of Belem on the Eastern PART of the Brazilian Amazonia. Developed for your enjoyment using the following copyrighted products: . Software: - Microsoft Flight Simulator v.4.0b (FS4) - Microsoft/BAO Aircraft and Scenery Designer (ASD) - J. Maloney's Coord2.zip (Coord.) - CIS FSForum, Lib: 6. - J. Ross' Levil.zip (Levtilt) - CIS FSForum, Lib: 6. - S. Wigginton's ASDMov.zip (ASDMove) - CIS Forum; Lib: 6. - R. Phillips' Clib#1.zip (ASDCut Lib) - CIS Forum; Lib: 6. - L. Wheeler' SEE4 - Mallard Software, INC. . Brazilian Air Force documents: AIP - Brasil - AGA-2 - SBBE-5: Bel‚m International. Airport Specifications. AVMA - 96 - WAC 2946 - Bel‚m Sectional. . Tips Lots of tips from CIS:FSForum, with many thanks to all contributors. . Requires: - FS4/ASD of course, - Default Scenery F1 for the US reference grid, - Static scenery memory allocation: 60830 Bytes - Dynamic scenery memory allocation: 41681 Bytes - Dynamic Active objects: 50. - Dynamic scenery frequency = Medium or Complex. For modes and demos I suggest that you either download two 'classic' aircrafts from FSForum, Lib: 5. - AA737.zip by J.F. Hilden for the 737-300. - CES152.zip by M. Read for the Cessna Movable 33. or go to your FS directory and copy your filename.sim file corresponding to a Cessna, to a new file named CD15RG.sim, and of your preferred jet airliner to a new B737-300.sim file. If the jet came out of AAF factory you will as well have to copy the overlay or "driver" for it to a pure B737-300 (no extension) file. My preferences for the Boeing 737-300, used intensely by Brazilian airlines in domestic flights, and the superb Cessna Movable 33, a joy to handle, are very light penalties upon you.Unfortunately, FS4 does not handles missing files gracefully; when it does not finds a *.SIM file, instead of looking for a defualt plane it returns you the dreadfull "Abort or Retry" (Retry for what? You just have to abort and grin.)However, it gives you a hint, the filename.sim that is missing. Just copy one of your planes (the SIM file that is) to a file with such name and you are in business. The easy way is to watch inside new SIM files with a file viwer, the filename for the plane overlay, or driver, is there; just copy any plane file to that filename with a SIM extension. If you would like to use a Braziliamn plane from EMBRAER, download the superb BRASILIA, it is EMB-120.zip by Gerry Watkins on most BBS. Files enclosed: - VALDECAE.SC1 - Static scenery for Belem's International Airport centered at FS coordinates 1851.7930/37144.4300, if you want to get there through the 5A position menu, and has a range of 86,9 nm. SIZE 40921 Bytes. - VALDECAE.ASD - A non-enhanced static scenery to use on 286 systems without using SEE4. Just rename it VALDECAE.SC1 and do not use the previous one. International Airport : Val de Caens -Belem # ³ RUNWAY ³ NORTH ³ EAST ³ LEN ³ WID ³ HDG ³ ALT ÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÅÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ- 1 ³ 6/24 ³ 1859.8750 ³ 37140.6992 ³ 2566m ³ 46m ³ 73ų ³ 16m 2 ³ 2/20 ³ 1858.0742 ³ 37138.8867 ³ 1860m ³ 46m ³ 33ų ³ 16m Regional Airport : Julio Cezar # ³ RUNWAY ³ NORTH ³ EAST ³ LEN ³ WID ³ HDG ³ ALT ÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄÅ-ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ- 1 ³ 33/15 ³ 1838.3438 ³ 37143.4922 ³ 1525m ³ 31m ³ 346ų ³ 16m NavAids -------------------------------------------------------------------------- No. Type FS North FS East Range Freqency Course Slope nm ų ų --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 VOR 1856.0000 37132.6094 69.1 117.3 2 NDB 1856.1484 37132.6172 69.1 250 3 ILS 1855.7266 37133.3906 34.6 109.3 87 3.4 4 ATIS 1857.0000 37137.0000 50.0 118.1 5 COM (VC) 1857.0000 37137.0000 30.0 121.5 6 COM (JC) 1838.0000 37142.0000 10.0 118.3 7 NDB (SAL)2480.0000 37505.0000 180.0 315 Lighthouse - VALDECAE.DY1 - Correspondingly dynamic scenery with a lot of action, not necessarily by the book. INTRODUCTION The FS4 world is restricted, in general, to the Northern Hemisphere. In fact, it ends somewhere in Central America near Panama. Besides, no one in CIS Flight Simulator Forum has shown any intention to go south of the border except to Mexico City (superb work) and the (upper) Caribbean. Imagine how charming would be to fly over the Panama Channel with ships being raised and lowered underneath! As a scientist I have lived and worked in quite (a lot of) a number of different places in three continents (Europe, USA, and S.A.) before returning to my hometown, a few years, ago directly from Washington D.C. (or should I say Alexandria, VA. and Bethesda, MD). Not being a pilot; although holding a respectable number of frequent flyer bonus lost first with Eastern and afterwards with PanAm, nor a graphic designer, I kept post-poning the idea of depicting Belem on FS4/ASD. The suggestion to use some unexplored area in F1 or any remote site in a *.SCN base file didn't attract me. Thus my option was to build up everything out off an island built in the South Atlantic. Hopefully, Maloney's Coord.exe would put me in the right place from the US grid with negative values of the latitude, close enough to the Equator in Lambert's cone hat(c. 1772), not caring for the (large) distortion of using the US standard parallels at 37§N and 65§N. I hope someone will soon pick up this topic for discussion in FSForum. At first I thought the whole thing would not work properly due to the intense use of over 50 polygons (my mistake in building up the island!). On my 486/33, with 8M of extended memory, a Trident 1M SVGA and a NEC-Multisync monitor; where I can squeeze 627K of free base memory and load FS4.exe high with 386Max v.6.02 into a 86K free block (I rely on DRDos v. 6. and 4Dos v. 4.01b); it works fine. Better yet, using the PCKwick cache helps, but remember that PCKScreen is of no help and PCKkey may fool you exactly when you need most just one notch of a crucial key. However, the files function decently on a 286/20 with some 615K free under DOS 5 even in the absence of high memory; except that the one I tested has a lousy CGA amber screen whose impact over memory is somewhat low - of course you get what you paid for: cheap resolution. On the subject of memory I intend to upload later a text (Mame.txt or Mame.zip) that shows you how to handle DRDOS, 4DOS, 386MAX and PCKWIK so you can benefit in FS4 from all of these fine (and copyrighted produts); because all of them use so called profile files it is no problem to mantain lots of configurations suited to whatever you need. If you have some fancy scenery editor as SEE4, please use it by all means,I will be happy if you put your enhanced version on CIS: FSForum Lib:6. I am a newcomer to SEE4 and help comes to me just from these fine and friendly BBS texts. BELEM {Bay-laym} This is the gate city to Amazonia in Brazil, the world's largest tropical rainforest. Located at what is usually said to be the mouth of the Amazon river, it is in fact at the confluence of a mesh of rivers, large and small, which compose the Guajara Bay. Most of the water comes from the large Tocantins river which flows North and the "smaller" Guama river which flows Northwest. Just for the sake of providing a feeling of proportion, let me say that just the later is wider than any of the European rivers. Founded by the Portuguese in 1615, Belem has flourished between 1850 and 1920 thanks to the "rubber-boom" which attracted europeans - my grand-parents came from Spain at that time - european goods, brought in lots of money and people couldn't care less for the rest of Brazil which had till 1889 an Emperor. Who would care for Rio (no beaches then) if you could have Paris ? Being the capital city of Par ; a State larger than Texas and over three times the size of France; Belem has been recently on the news media due to ecological issues. Para, with its superb forest, diverse mineral resources ranging from iron ore to gold, and its small indian and large peasant population has had a controversial approach towards development, a subject I will refrain from addressing here. For aviation, Belem was an important base for the Allied Forces, specially USAF, during World War II. There were then no ways to come down to the South Atlantic without a stop-over and refuelling in Belem. Latter it was fundamental for the "flying boat" (Clipper 314A) trips and for Lockheed's Constellation flights to and from the US as well as between Brazil and Europe via Casablanca or Dakar. Since both the Clipper and the "Connie" are available from Lib: 5 in FSForum you may be tempted to become adventurous; for the later you may need to add extra fuel tanks at the tips of the wings or just fake you can pump more fuel in the standard tanks since this trick is just a couple of menus and keystrokes away. Or better yet, you may try trips from Belem to Miami or from Belem to Paris non-stop with wide-body jets (in real life Air France flies Belem - Cayenne - Martinique - Paris and back). The Belem International Airport is classically named "Aeroporto de Val-de-Caens", which in old portuguese means literally "dog's valley airport". Don't ask me why. The Europeans where the ones that brought dogs to America for Indian and slave chasing. My files, accordingly, are named Valdecae.*; instead of BZAVCGP or BZFVCGP as recommended by CPAA (does still exists ?); it sounds latin but if you are a purist just rename them. By the book, the characteristics of Val-de-Caens are: - BELEM/VAL-DE-CAENS Latitude: 01§ 23' 04" S Longitude: 048§ 28' 42" W or according to coord2, its FS coordinates are 1859.879/37140.7 if you want to get there through Menu 5,A. - Runaways are: 06/24 (Main) - 8415 x 150 (feet) = 2525 x 45 (m) ASPH 02/20 (Secondary) - 6100 x 150 (feet) = 1830 x 45 (m) ASPH - VOR/DME (range in FS4 is 69.1 nm): BEL 117.3 @ 01§23'01"S/048§28'07" W - NDB (range in FS4 is 69.1 nm): BEL 250 @ 01§23'04"S/048§28'08"W - ILS/DME for 06 (course 87) @ 109.3 with a 3.4 slope (range in FS4 is 34.6 nm) -IE (LM) (range in FS4 is 69.1nm): 395 @ 01§23'07"S/048§29'05"W - COM (Tower) - 121.5 . - ATIS - 118.1 . Other radio frequencies in town are, if you want to be realistic and make use of the antennas on the scenery are: 125.2, 125.3, 126.5, 128.2, 128.7, 133.35, 134.7 and 135.55. The closest NDB out of town is on the Atlantic border in Salinopolis (literally: "Saltbourgh") - 315 @ 00§37'01"S/047§21'03"W (FS 2480.845/37505.58 acc. to coord 2). A 96 ft high red lighthouse dated 1937 stands at a point 210 ft MSL near by @ 00§36'53.4"S/047§21'25.7"W. Unfortunately to extend polygons up to this place would penalize memory to much, so the lighthouse was set on the 'sea'. * Lighting Aids are: - Approach lighting: Runway 06 - PAPI, ALS Runway 06/24 - edge (HIRL) end of runway (HIRL) - Other lighting: Taxiway (amber) edge lights on all taxiways. * Elevation: 52 ft (~ 16 m) * VAR. N mag/N geo (CANT)= 19§ W (1991). I hope I put it right. These are true data and I used them wherever my tools permitted in ASD. I hope someone will improve the scenery with more powerful tools. Another airport, in fact a very busy one for small and medium prop planes, honors a local aviation dreamer of the heroic age Julio Cezar Ribeiro de Souza (1843-1887) who designed a blimp with wings in 1881 and named "Le Victoria", guess in honor of whom. Called Airport "Julio Cezar" it has very simple characteristics: - BELEM/Julio Cezar. - Location : 01§ 24'51" S/ 048§ 27'37" W, or FS 1855.52/37152.52 by coord2 in the US default grid. - Runway 15/33 - 5000 x 100 (feet) = 1500 x 30 (m) ASPH. - COM (tower): 118.3 The book makes important remarks concerning it: * Presences of vultures (urubus) in the neighborhood; * Motorized ultra-lights (ULM) and gliders - Mon-Fri0900-2100, Sat, Sun Hol 0930-2100. * ACFT in flight instruction nearby. I wish I could put all these in Valdecae.dy1, however I lack vultures. Approaching lights at runway 15/33 as well as runways markers are non-existent in real life. In fact, if you miss day-light you will have to come to 02/20 or 06/24 in Val-de-Caens. By eyeball, the conversion done by coord2 brought Julio Cezar far too close to Val-de-Caens on account of Lambert's distortion, so I decided to trust my intuition and set them a bit far apart - it looks right where it is now. After plotting both airports I started my scenic view of Belem by putting enhancements on a free-hand basis, not always in scale but close, using some of the city landmarks and points you could identify from the air. So, indulge on the fact that Belem is on the continent facing West towards the Guajara Bay and Southeast towards the sinuous Guama river, not the big island I had to operate with. If before flying you care to look at the executable map I grabbed (Belmap.exe) you will have a better idea of the city - of course you will need at least an EGA. Anyhow, starting Northwest (or the upper left of the map) and going clockwise you will have a bird's eye notion of the place. The fat island on top is Mosqueiro, a river beach resort with a singular characteristic: from its Northern beaches you cannot see the other margin where Marajo Island is located although not included in the file (too many polygons; let us wait for SD- SA.scn). The island just below is Outeiro, a popular resort, close to a would be industrial district. Both are connected to the continent by bridges, but not interconnected. At the upper left corner of Belem is Icoaracy, a village which used to be a beach resort during the rubber-boom, with old elaborate beach houses. Its beaches became too polluted and the place hangs on with traditional handcraft on clay and reasonable restaurants. Going clockwise; midway in the road that leads to Icoaracy, North of the airport, a building complex is the site of the State Government. Then comes the soccer stadium and at the cross-roads is the monument to the "Cabanos" - a tragic revolution led by the peasants against the Portuguese in 1835. The monument, built by Brazilian architect O. Nyemeyer in 1985, is a giant concrete slab tilted by some 45§ like as if falling down (thanks to Levitilt). A bit North of it is the new shopping center to be opened by October 93. The road that escapes North, in fact Northeast, is the only way out to the littoral of Brazil as well to the capital Brasilia in the Central region and to Rio de Janeiro and S. Paulo in the Southeast. Now, going South, you will find the building of the Regional Air Force Command just across the road parallel to the Julio Cezar airfield; all brazilian airports and all air traffic is under the Air Force jurisdiction. Then comes a beautiful buildings built at the turn of the century, which used to be a prep school and is now just a junior-high with modern additions in the back such as a foot-ball (soccer) field. Bosque Rodrigues Alves (an original part of the forest which used to surround Belem) encloses just a whole block since 1883. Facing it, there is a cylindrical tower of one of Brazil's TV networks; a revolving restaurant was supposed to operate on the top, economic depression called off the idea. Close by is my apartment building; with a pool in the back and my silver four-door sedan parked in front so you can't miss it. My wife's blue station wagon will arrive soon coming from the airport. Down the street, two more radio and TV antennas make me remember Wisconsin Ave, from Georgetown to Bethesda in D.C.. Further down you may have a glimpse of an ugly semi-spherical monument in blue and red that honors a political "chief" of the 40's. Locally called "Xuxa's spaceship" you in the US will soon get the idea when the new "Shou-sha" dolls clothes invade the kid's shop's near you late this year. Then a market (1911) and across it a water reservoir tower (1884) both imported from England, where the road turns westward. Further down, the light green patch represents Museu Goeldi, the site of the oldest research institution in Amazonia and world renowned for its work in ecology and anthropology since 1866; the central building is dated 1837. Every scientist that deals with Tropical Rainforest knows the place - I directed it for five years(85-90). In line comes the big white marble church of Our Lady of Nazareth that holds a 200 year old tradition of a yearly procession that gathers a million people in the streets. After that, still on the left but a block away is the CENTUR - the convention and cultural center for the state. Windsocks adapted neatly as a row of Para flags. The state flag is just like a scuba diving flag (red with a diagonal white strip) except that it has a central blue star. This is the building I now work. The blue building with an antenna is the TV station for Brazil's largest TV network. The tall white building was the first high-rise apartment building of the city. Built in the fifties it was fundamental in turning a pleasant city of beautiful and ample houses into a forest of concrete boxes deprived of taste. On top of it the owner put his name in red neon. By pure chance I discovered how to emulate the blinking effect of neons signs. Doing one hangar at Julio Cezar I involuntarily inserted three copies of the same flat top rectangular building in different color combination but in exactly the same location (1838.4297/37142.9493). Only afterwards I discovered the error because the whole building was blinking like crazy. I let it stay put even knowing that certainly someone discovered the effect before me; I think this may come in handy sometimes if you lack SEE4. The neon sign followed from this pattern except with two very thin rectangular buildings; one all white the other all red; encapsulating one another and then raised one at a time to the same position with Levitilt (1820.2266/ 37125.7461). With the right approach and altitude it works nicely. The magnificent opera house is in red in front to the white building and faces West as well. Built in the period 1871-1878 and seating a thousand people, it is amazing to remember what money could do at a time the city had a population of just above a hundred thousand. Then you get to the harbor where the black iron depots with the fish market at the end where all brought from England at the turn of the century. There are eight of these storage building, now mostly empty; but I contented myself with just a handful. The bay dent is the city's main post-card, being the "Ver-O-Peso" market, the place were small boats come to sell fish and fruits from around the bay. These were sail boats in the past, nowadays turned into motor boats crafted, "by memory", with local timber; that is, no blue-prints and no plans - they just know how to do it and what kind of wood to use for each piece. By the way, "Ver-O- Peso" means literally "to check the weight" on behalf of a public scale made available to fishermen on the past, not exactly for free, but for charging county taxes. Across, the round white building is supposed to represent the fort that the first Portuguese settlers established at the founding of the city in 1616. Facing it is the magnificent 18th century all white cathedral (1748-1774) very easily spotted from the air when you come from the South. Two other historical buildings complete the scenery; one yellow and red the other white and blue, both almost of the same size. The first used to be the Governor's Palace, again a 18th century construction (1767-1771) when Belem had just some eleven thousand people and fourteen hundred houses! It is being refurbished to house the State Museum. The, other, the former City Hall, built in later period (1868-1883) will soon be a cultural center for the city that now houses 1.3 million. This completes in large strokes the profile of Belem. If you wonder why I emphasize cultural points; well, I hold the job of State Secretary for Cultural Affairs for the last two years and thus got carried away by my business while hobbying. For pilots I can add very little additional information that may be of interest. Being almost at the Equator, thus midway in the tropics, the seasons are similar to the ones you find in Miami except for tornados - they never spin down and there are scientific explanations for this. Daily thunderstorms are common during the "Winter" or rainy seasons and temperature never goes below 16§C being capable of raising up to 40§C in the Summer. Humidity fills up the air specially at night with over 90% relative, so if you wear glasses you would wish they had wiper blades when you leave your plane. Wind is usually parallel to the entrance of the bay from the ocean, that is SW, what turns the 06/24 the main runway in 9 out of 10 takeoffs and landings. Runway 02/20 is mainly used during the changing of tides in the ocean which propagates down the bay and rivers with increasing delay time - mathematicians expect this from what they call the hyperbolic partial differential equations of hydrodynamics (and meteorology). This also means that your approach to Julio Cezar's 15/33 is tricky and thus you are allowed to reverse the side from which you should start your descending approach. When the 02 is in use at Val-de- Caens there is a natural shift to 33 in Julio Cezar. Taking off from 06 I planned to reach the US on a blind flight. Well, it was too long and boring a flight even to Puerto Rico or Cuba; thus I used the Concord and flying for about 3 1/2h at top speed on a 310o course I got to the upper shores of New York. This was the only, and gross, test I had to assure me that Belem was not to far off from its proper location considering the distortion of the US Lambert grid pushed to the limit. But again I may be wrong. (Recently a program from FS Forum called SC1map.zip showed me graphically that the relative position is OK, but since it is a beta version I am still trying to learn to operate it properly before I can speak with confidence.) Enjoy ! But do not blame me if something goes wrong, what is improbable. For good literature on the region at an affordable price (US$ 24,95), go out and buy: Goulding, M. - "Amazon: The Flooded Forest" London : BBC Books, 1989, 208pp. New York: Sterling Publ. Co. Inc. You may even get the video at your nearby public library. Please (!) do not buy Costeau's, he is a 1st class (the way he travels on your money) fraud. If you like these files and have some of your own, please just mail me a copy of yours; I will send you back a diskette and a book or postcard - unfortunatelly my budget is low to download large files from CIS:FsForum. Thanks anyhow. ˙ ############################### Navaids of Scenery VALDECAE.SC1 (40921 Bytes) Val de Caens -Belem Scenery Center North : 1851.7930 East : 37144.4300 Range : 86.9 nm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- No. Type FS North FS East Range Freqency Course Slope nm ų ų --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 VOR 1856.0000 37132.6094 69.1 117.3 Val-de-Caens 2 NDB 1856.1484 37132.6172 69.1 250 Val-de-Caens 3 ILS 1855.7266 37133.3906 34.6 109.3 87 3.4 4 ATIS 1857.0000 37137.0000 50.0 118.1 Val-de-Caens 5 COM 1857.0000 37137.0000 30.0 121.5 Val-de-Caens 6 COM 1838.0000 37142.0000 10.0 118.3 Julio Cezar 7 NDB(SAL) 2480.0000 37505.0000 180.0 315 Lighthouse Val-de-Caens and Julio Cezar Modes (Belem) B-737LAN.MOD: BELEM : 737 LANDING B-AMODEL.MOD: BELEM : AEROMODEL B-ATLANT.MOD: BELEM : FROM THE ATLANTIC B-BELNIT.MOD: BELEM : BELEM BY NIGHT B-CESMAR.MOD: BELEM : CESSNA FROM MARAJO B-CJC15.MOD: BELEM : CESSNA OFF JC 15 B-HCEFS4.MOD: BELEM : HOME! CESSNA FS4 STA B-JC01.MOD: BELEM : CESSNA AT J. CEZAR B-JCHANG.MOD: BELEM : JC HANGAR B-JUHOME.MOD: BELEM : JULIA'S HOME B-LEARN.MOD: BELEM : LEARNING B-MOSQUE.MOD: BELEM : MOSQUEIRO B-SAL.MOD: BELEM : SALINAS LIGHTHOUSE B-SOBREV.MOD: BELEM : SOBREVOO B-VC01.MOD: BELEM : JET DEPART INITIAL B-VC747.MOD: BELEM : VAL-DE-CAENS 747 DEP B-VIEW01.MOD: BELEM : HOME AGAIN DEMOS BEL737Z.DEM: a jet tour with zooms. BELBYAIR.DEM:a tour in Portuguese. BELCESS.DEM: no messages. JULIA.DEM:Take off on an ultra-light from my home street. Executables: If you have the SVGA 800 resolution. BELMAP.EXE : Belem on map for you to get acquainted. CONCORDE.EXE : A SURPRISE AND A GIFT TO YOU! ============================================================================ APPENDIX: SOME TIPS WITH BAT FILES BAT FILE TO RUN THIS SCENERY (I AM SORRY TO SAY, BUT USE AT YOUR OWN RISK) To use these batch file, rename your *.SCN files to *.SCM, your *.MOD files to *.MOA and for your modes files use the pattern : [first_letter]-name.MOA as in B-VC06DC3.MOA == (Belem)-(Val de Caens)(Runway 06)(Plane).MOA. You have to have the default mode FS4.mod and the default demo FS4.DEM in your FS directory, the default base scenery is F1. I use 386MAX thus, if you don't, replace with LH, or the QEMM correspondingly command. @ECHO OFF REM FSBELEM.BAT REM FS4 IN BELEM D: CD\ REM Remove PCKScrn and free some 10K IN BASE MEMORY C:\PCKWIK\PCKSCRN /ConfigFile=c:\pckwik\poweroff.ini @cls cd D:\FS REM CHECK FOR PREVIOUS SYSTEM LOCKS OR POWER FAILURES IF EXIST DEFAULT.SCN GOTO FIX IF NOT EXIST SD-9.SCM GOTO FIX REM IF YOU LIKE ROBO VOICES, GO AHEAD AND REMOVE THE REM NEXT remark REM call D:\FS\sbtalk REM RENAME YOUR *.MOA FILES OF BELEM TO *.MOD(es) FILES for %%x in (b) do ren D:\FS\%%x-*.moa *.mod REM USE A NEW NAME FOR THE DEFAULT BASE SCENERY, GUESS WHAT REN F1 DEFAULT.SCN REM USE SD-7 AS YOUR BASE SCENERY (EAST COAST) REN SD-7.SCM F1 REM JUST IN CASE YOU WANT TO GO TO CHICAGO: REN SD-9.SCM *.SCN REM SAVE YOUR DEFAULT DEMO REN FS4.DEM DEFAULT.DEM REM USE BELEM DEMO AS DEFAULT ON MENU 1 REN BELBYAIR.DEM FS4.DEM REM SAVE YOUR DEFAULT MODE REN FS4.MOD DEFAULT.MOD REM START OFF IN BELEM AIRPORT REN B-BELINI.MOD FS4.MOD REM LOAD FS4.EXE HIGH c:\386max\386max LOADHIGH fs4.exe %1 %2 %3 c:\386max\386max LOADLOW REM PUT EVERYTHING BACK IN PLACE REN FS4.MOD B-BELINI.MOA REN DEFAULT.MOD FS4.MOD REN FS4.DEM BELBYAIR.DEM REN DEFAULT.DEM FS4.DEM REN SD-7.SCN *.SCM REN F1 SD-9.SCM REN DEFAULT.SCN F1 REN D:\FS\?-*.mod *.moa REM TO REMOVE SBTALK FROM MEMORY IF YOU LOADED IT, REM DELETE HE NEXT REMark. REM call c:\sb\remove.bat GOTO END REM EXIT GRACEFULLY IF EXIST D:\FS\NOSCRN QUIT REM RESTORE PCKSCRN C: CD\ @C:\PCKWIK\PCKSCRN /ConfigFile=c:\pckwik\pckwik.fs4 QUIT :FiX REM PREVIOUS PROBLEMS ECHO There were problems during last run of FS4 : ECHO Either DEFAULT.SCN should be F1 ECHO and F1 is some SD-nn.SCN; ECHO F1 is 139,489 bytes long and dated 1-30-90; ECHO OR ECHO the base scennery SD-nn.SCM is missing. ECHO . ˙˙ ECHO FIX IT BEFORE RUNNING FS4 AGAIN !!! PAUSE GOTO END IF YOU ARE BRAVE AND LIKE GENERALIZATIONS AS MATHEMATICIANS DO YOU CAN PUT THE ABOVE PRINCIPLES TO USE AND CREATE YOUR OWN MENU SYSTEM WITHOUT WASTING MEMORY. I LEAVE THIS AS A HOMEWORK, THE DATA ARE: 1. FSTEST.BAT : @REM FSTest.BAT @echo off @cls if (%1)==() goto HELP :TEST_1 if (%1)==(fs4) goto NOTPOSS1 goto TEST_2 :TEST_2 for %%n in (0 7 7B 7C 7E 7G A B C D E G H I J K M T U X) ifnot %%n==%2 goto NOTPOSS2 goto TEST_3 :TEST_3 for %%m in ( 7 9 11 12 ) if not %%m==%3 goto NOTPOSS3 goto DOIT :HELP ECHO FORMAT is: ECHO FSTEST {MOD name} {REGION letter[-xxx.mod]} {SCN number} quit :NOTPOSS1 ECHO You cannot specify the default mode FS4 as parameter 1; ECHO CHOOSE ANOTHER ! QUIT :NOTPOSS2 ECHO You cannot specify a letter distinct from : ECHO (0 7 7B 7C 7E 7G A B C D E G H I J K M T U X) ECHO as parameter 2; choose from this list ! QUIT :NOTPOSS3 ECHO You should specify a base scenery assigned as SC-n where n is ECHO 7, 9, 11 or 12 . ECHO Choose one of these as parameter 3 ! QUIT :DOIT D: cd D:\FS @C:\PCKWIK\PCKSCRN /ConfigFile=c:\pckwik\poweroff.ini REM NEXT LINE IS JUST A PRECAUTION, FLY SAFELY! echo fstestof.bat %1 %2 %3 > c:\bin\fstlast.bat IF EXIST DEFAULT.SCN GOTO FIX IF NOT EXIST SD-%3.SCM GOTO FIX REN SD-?.SCM *.SCN REN SD-1?.SCM *.SCN for %%x in ( %2 ) do ren D:\FS\%%x-*.moa *.mod REN F1 DEFAULT.SCN REN SD-%3.SCN F1 REN FS4.MOD DEFAULT.MOD REN %1.MOD FS4.MOD copy D:\FS\autoexec.350 D:\FS\autoexec.fs4 ECHO FS RESOLUTION PUT TO ega 600x350 . c:\386max\386max LOADHIGH fs4.exe c:\386max\386max LOADLOW copy D:\FS\autoexec.600 D:\FS\autoexec.fs4 ECHO FS RESOLUTION RESTORED TO 800x600 SVGA . REN FS4.MOD %1.MOD REN DEFAULT.MOD FS4.MOD REN F1 SD-%3.SCN REN DEFAULT.SCN F1 REN D:\FS\%2-*.mod *.moa REN SD-?.SCN *.SCM REN SD-1?.SCN *.SCM cd\ CLS GOTO END :FiX REM PREVIOUS PROBLEMS ECHO There were problems during last run of FS4 : ECHO Either DEFAULT.SCN should be F1 ECHO and F1 is some SD-%3.SCN; ECHO F1 is 139,489 bytes long and dated 1-30-90; ECHO OR ECHO the base scennery SD-%3.SCM is missing. ECHO .˙˙ ECHO FIX IT BEFORE RUNNING FS4 AGAIN !!! PAUSE GOTO END :END REM RESTORE PCKScrn C: CD\ @C:\PCKWIK\PCKSCRN /ConfigFile=c:\pckwik\pckwik.fs4 @CLS c:\util\TYPE c:\bin\fstlast.bat 2.FSTESTOFF.BAT Since you can recall all parameters you have used last time with FSTEST>BAT when the power went off, this bat is just a precaution to have. It runs with FSTLAST.BAT created by FSTEST.BAT. @REM FSTESTOF.BAT D: cd\ cd d:\fs cls copy D:\FS\autoexec.600 D:\FS\autoexec.fs4 ECHO FS RESOLUTION RESTORED TO 800x600 SVGA . REN FS4.MOD %1.MOD REN DEFAULT.MOD FS4.MOD REN F1 SD-%3.SCN REN DEFAULT.SCN F1 REN D:\FS\%2-*.mod *.moa REN SD-?.SCN *.SCM REN SD-1?.SCN *.SCM cd\ CLS 3.RESOLUTION CHANGE BAT (When all yours FS stuff does not run on 800x600,it is nice to have this one.) @REM FSRES.BAT @echo off cls D: cd D:\FS IF (%1)==() GOTO RESOLUTION GOTO TEST :TEST REM KEEP AUTOEXEC.FS4 FOR 350, 480, 600 AND THE 747 SVGA GLASS REM COCKPIT. FOR EACH YOU WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE INITIAL REM QUIZZ IN FS4 WITH THE COMMAND FS OR FS4 X. THEN: REM ren AUTOEXEC.FS4 *.XYZ WHERE, XYZ IS THE RESOLUTION YOU PICKED. FOR %%d IN (350 480 600 747) DO IF %1==%%d GOTO OKAY GOTO RESOLUTION :RESOLUTION ECHO YOU MUST SPECIFY THE SCREEN RESOLUTION : 350, 480, 600 OR 747 CD\ QUIT :OKAY copy D:\FS\autoexec.%1 D:\FS\autoexec.fs4 quit 4.QUIT or QUIT.BAT To create the QUIT command if your command.com doesn't have one, create QUIT.BAT by just entering in any directory in your path the command: C:\BIN>REM > QUIT.BAT {ENTER}