Project Magenta - High End Flight Simulation Software

The Website Profile section has been expanded, this is in preparation of some new features that will be added soon.

http://www.projectmagenta.com/yourprofile/

Apart from the usual password change and country information and whatnot, you can now also:

1. See the confirmed year you became a Project Magenta Customer (always interesting)
2. Opt in to receive News and Special Offers for existing or coming products via E-Mail
3. Decide whether want to receive new Build information (as soon as it is implemented)
4. Check a box if you want to be included in a Project Magenta member/website directory to promote your Site/Company
5. Add your Telephone number should we need to contact you (e-mail problems/tech support) with international prefix…
6. Information about Operating System as well as Simulator and Aircraft Type used (for tech support)

If you want to add a little something about yourself (which will not be made public, as any other private information you might share (apart from website), there is a special field for that as well.

This might be expanded in the future, and if we do, we will let you know.

Thank you! Comments and suggestions are appreciated.

From time to time we get support questions about OpenGL not running on some cards (such as in this case an ATI HD) because the MS Visual C Runtime library is missing.

This is normally due to a faulty or incomplete install of the graphic card drivers. One solution is to look for the newest driver for your hardware and install that one, another is to follow the instructions in the link below:

Solution source: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/270377-33-atioglxx-opengl-error-series

Resolution by a customer:
“The solution to my problem was using the older ATI Driver that came with my card as you suggested. It is dated from 30/10/2009. This stopped all the runtime errors for me. The unable to create font was fixed by a simple restart like you also suggested.”

We encourage our customers to post something about their simulators on their website. Should you not have a menu bar at the top of the browser (where you just select “Add New and then Post”, all you need to do is go to this page: Add New Post

Here you would add a title, then your text. If you want to use HTML instead of the Visual Editor, click on the HTML tab on the right.

If you want to include an image, click on the icon on the right of “Upload/Insert“. You should be also able to embed video (e.g. from YouTube), which is easily accomplished in HTML mode.

Once your post is ready, select a category (e.g. Sim Builder’s Blog or ProCustomer and Partner News) and then click on the “Publish” button and you’re done!

The ticket system is now officially being used by several people and we have adapted it to some additional requirements needed for our software.

While it is not the only way to get in touch with us about the software it might be the best way of keeping track of things for everyone involved.

Please visit our site at  http://www.flightsimcenter.eu/Connections/course.asp for all the informations about our Preparatory Courses. Thank you very much for your attention.

Not sure whether we will have a forum in the long run, but as some people requested it, we put something online.

http://www.projectmagenta.com/forums

This will be there for the next month on a trial basis.

We used to have a very active newsgroup, and I am a bit partial to mail reader based solutions, but perhaps this will prove useful as well.  So feel free to enter content.

I also never get tired of encouraging anyone who wants to post photos or information about their own simulator… you can do that in the Sim Builders Blog (link on the right hand menu).

Working with the new website reminded me of the very beginnings, well before Project Magenta. When it was all a project in an old DC9 cockpit that was being retrofitted with PCs and parts from a 737-400. How things have changed.

The Wayback Machine is a website archive, and it comes in rather handy to illustrate how things used to be. It is probably going to be there as long as we have an internet:

Schiratti.Com in 1999

There are some words in there that still make us all laugh… like Windows 98.

Well before that was this… but that’s another story.

To simplify things, you might want to:

• change the password to one of your own choice, you can do this in Your Profile  
• while you are there, why not enter something about yourself? fill in your website if you have one? 
• if your browser does not do the “remember me” thing, you may have to enable cookies for our website

To the right of “Software Updates” you should see the text “more info…”

If you click on that and you are registered as a Customer, you should see a list of the most recent uploads, showing the last uploaded file first.

We are still experimenting with this, so please let us know your thoughts.

New builds have been released yesterday:

Instructor Station

• menu handling improved

Airbus

• new FCU, MCDU and GC
• FD changes for Engine Out operation
• HDG mode selection during FLX takeoff and GA corrected
• IDG temp indication fixed