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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 - Belém, 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: Belém International. Airport
Specifications.
AVMA - 96 - WAC 2946 - Belém 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
# │ RUNWAY │ NORTH │ EAST │ LEN │ WID │ HDG │ ALT
────┼──────────┼────────────┼────────────┼──────-─┼─────-──┼──────┼───────-
1 │ 6/24 │ 1859.8750 │ 37140.6992 │ 2566m │ 46m │ 73° │ 16m
2 │ 2/20 │ 1858.0742 │ 37138.8867 │ 1860m │ 46m │ 33° │ 16m
Regional Airport : Julio Cezar
# │ RUNWAY │ NORTH │ EAST │ LEN │ WID │ HDG │ ALT
────┼──────────┼────────────┼────────────┼─────-──┼-───────┼──────┼───────-
1 │ 33/15 │ 1838.3438 │ 37143.4922 │ 1525m │ 31m │ 346° │ 16m
NavAids
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
No. Type FS North FS East Range Freqency Course Slope
nm ° °
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 37ºN and
65ºN. 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 Pará; 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: 01º 23' 04" S
Longitude: 048º 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 @
01º23'01"S/048º28'07" W
- NDB (range in FS4 is 69.1 nm): BEL 250 @ 01º23'04"S/048º28'08"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 @ 01º23'07"S/048º29'05"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 @
00º37'01"S/047º21'03"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 @ 00º36'53.4"S/047º21'25.7"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)= 19º 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 : 01º 24'51" S/ 048º 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 45º 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 16ºC being capable of raising up to 40ºC 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 ° °
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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}
<EOF>