Ben Russell

Released Gizmo 11.4 yesterday, a critical step in shipping the Saab. It's all coming together.

I'm not asking you to program. I'm asking you to play "logical deduction." Try turning one thing off at a time until you find a match. Very simple rules. Instead, you have come to the forum and posted publicly: "I do not know but," "I feel" "there is a compability problem with Gizmo." You do not know, but based on your simple gut feeling, you assume that Gizmo is the problem. You take the problem public without doing ANY work to further test and refine your assumptions. You are being lazy. I will freely admit Gizmo has its share of issues. See above for details. Additionally, you haven't shared the version number of Gizmo you're using. Further frustration ensues. If you're using Gizmo 10.x some of the very late versions will cut power FOR DRM products NOT ACTIVATED. The following assumes that you're using Gizmo 11.x. There is no reason for Gizmo to "suddenly zero your mixtures". Why would it do that Tom? Please explain what I might have been thinking when I put that in. What made you assume that I would want to put such a thing in? When Gizmo clashes with SASL or plugins that use sound it is generally a catastrophic failure. The sounds play corrupted. The sim crashes. There is no known clash where Gizmo sneakily waits until you're in a climb under auto pilot command and then yanks only your fuel mixture, just for a laugh. Had you added the simple words; "..because this drives me crazy, I have even tested a UFMC clibm without gizmo installed at all, and it doesnt happen anymore, therefor PROVING that gizmo is the problem" this conversation would go very differently. As is, you are behaving like a lazy irrational customer who just wants to bitch. As a finishing note, thank you for donating to the project, you have helped Gizmo grow so that thousands of people can enjoy X-Plane to a new level. I continue to work hard every day like all the other X-Plane Developers so that we can bring you more stuff to use with the hope of some day making nice return on our work, be it financial or otherwise. Personally I see great satisfaction in someone going from "bare bones X-Plane" to "look at all the crazy stuff I can do with Gizmo.." in about two days on average. I hope that in future other people will be encouraged to donate as you have done. I feel that the number of takers vs care-takers isn't high enough, so I've stuck a nagware in. It's still entirely free to try out, use, reship, and make derivatives of, something you won't find in many other products for X-Plane. Good day.

Easier still, test UFMC without Gizmo installed at all. But I digress, this is a waste of your time TOBS. Gizmo has two known clash issues: Sometimes with SOUND and sometimes with SASL. Nothing else. Any further assertions can be made in the appropriate forum WITH more foundation than; " I do not know but I feel there is a compatability problem with GIZMO. I think this might be really the problem." Which is just bullshit.

I haven't built a Linux version of Gizmo 11.3.15+ yet. As soon as I do there product will probably be Linux compatible. I lost a hard drive a few weeks back, and with it, my X-Plane Linux install. Your query brings my list of "Linux people that want Gizmo that I know about" to a grand total of three. I might build Gizmo 11.4 for Linux, I'm about to build it for Windows. If it won't build without a fight no promises.

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If you already donate I should've sent you a free discount code in your email some time ago. Please review this thread, which talks about Gizmo Serial numbers extensively; http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php?topic=1888.0 The intention is that you should only ever have to get -one- Gizmo serial to remove the nag for every Gizmo-enhanced product. Now that you have one, you won't need another one. Please review the other thread and post any further thoughts there. If you'd like a refund please email me: br@x-plugins.com with the details of your "donating" email address so I can match them up. Thanks.

Browser share for the last month: Safari - iPad: 2.12% Safari - iPhone: 1.85% Firefox - Linux: 1.80% OS Share for the last month: Linux: 2.7% iPad: 2.31% iPhone: 2.14% Android: 0.51% iPod: 0.36% Now, if you'll excuse us; we really do have better things to do, as measured. Not asserted.

Here's the flash gallery module we use: http://slideshowpro.net/ Feel free to post a link to a drop in replacement.

Ship Saab. Ship CRJ. Ship whatever else between now and then. ...... Work on nice to haves. Yeah?

I'm on a 3G usb modem. Lovin it. Desk chains be damned. Some days I work literally right on the beach in a lovely grassed park, I can throw stones into the ocean -sitting down-.

looks more like a dolphin than a shark... Dolphins have h-stabs, sharks have LONG drawn out v-stabs. In any case, you've got no chance of out-running either one. I've had a grey-nurse shark turn 180 degrees in front of me and felt the crack from it's tail through the water. For their size, their agility is incredible to witness.

Macbook air: renders 1,049,088 pixels iMac: renders 2,073,600 pixels. iMac is doing almost 2x the work.

My irritation and "bad attitude" stems from this; The package isn't 100% complete. Until it is, any release of any reference document represents fracture. Say we release the manual today, and then we discover some amendments that need to be made to the aircraft between now and the day it goes on sale. We now have a portion of the user base who are going to report bugs against faulty documentation. Getting people to stay current with the aircraft-version itself is fairly easy. Getting them to stay current with the boring "probably right anyway, maybe only one sentence changed" flight manual is NOT. Thus we potentially open the door for a massive extra burden in tech support, a simple question becomes a whole series of to-and-fro ... the version of the manual and documentation that our valued customer is referring too must be retrieved before we can start the real process of diagnostics. A trickle out the door to of documents that will later be pushed back in our faces is not a very productive thing, in my opinion. A nice solid block-release is much easier for all parties and will only cost you a couple more weeks of waiting. No money, no frustration, and no soiled reputation as users post all manner of things all over the internet. Your last post comes across as not much more than sulking after a simple hand slap. Questions are fine, great even. Questions, met with nice answers, continued on with 'entitled little shit' attitude, seriously pisses me off. There is no harm in asking, but there is harm in back chat. Personally, I would have preferred that no information at all was released about this CRJ until the entire package was ready and the links were in the store. Others, with far more right to call the shots, have decided otherwise. I speak only for myself. Opinions here-in and in all other posts do not represent X-Aviation or it's Producers. My product is Gizmo, my attitude is blunt, you all know this. Life is messy and brutally honest outside our confines. I now return you to your scheduled CRJ content.

We're all working every day to bring all these things to your plate. I'm just asking that you let us do our work in the manner we deem best so that you may all enjoy all offerings as much and as often as possible. Resources will be made avaiable the second that we feel it's possible.

Then answer for all products to this question has historically been no. This project needs to be shipped. Or would you prefer to give everyone the chance to have a lovely piece of reading material with NO plane to fly? Stop being impatient and trying to stick your hand in the icing bowl.

http://www.x-plane.com/pg_downloads.html Download one of the apps labelled "installer"... I think. (page is clear as mud.)

Tom's gunna be pissed you uploaded a pic of him after he's had a few beers Javier...

Broken Head, about 15 mins south of Byron Bay. Mid winter footage judging by the wetsuits. I used to surf there, before all the crowds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVFBK9GhS5Q