Renault Magnum Tuning Pack v14.36

Lógicamente, está muy íntimamente relacionado con italiano. Está una versión rhythmosaurico de la Marseillaise, el himno nacional francés.

El original se canta: Vamos, Niños de la Patria, la hora de la gloria ha llegado. Para mí cantar se:
Vamos a Francia, la gran patria. Nuestro Renault ha llegado.

Are you aware of how many languages there actually are on planet earth?

I got no clue about slavic languages, I can only read the cyrillic alphabeth, but that’s it. I never got the hang of ancient Greek. I am somewhat fluent in dutch, and I learned ancient hebrew and latin. That’s it. Portuguese is beyond me. In a written text, I have about the same chances to understand what it is about like you do, as an italian native speaker. But I have about no chance when they talk. Spanish people need to slow down so I can understand them, but I can read and understand written texts. So, that’s my scope.

In return, I am abyssmal at maths, chemistry and physics as long as it has nothing to do with aviation.

Prior to the militairy, I was a student pilot flying gliders. I had to quit on that for several reasons with fthe financial aspect being the paramount one.
I took and passed several exams, so I had to deal with physics, especially in meteorology and technics.
Back in 2002 I bought Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002, and also began diving into the non-hardcoded parts to see what makes it tick. Though I have FSX, the last version, I still spend a lot of time in FS2004 (=FS9), modifying airports, downloading sceneries, tailoring air traffic to my liking. But at the moment, I feel I need to stear something landbased.

I’ve been a moderator at a (at that time) major FS-Website, I wrote tutorials, reviews and stuff. You just need to google Rhythmosaur – there is only one – to bring up all that old stuff. And that’s also why my english is that fluent and without german accent, because us moderators used to talk to each other via teamspeak ( something like Skype) while moderating, and one of the moderators even invited me to spend three months with him in Ohio, USA, which I did.

I wish I HAD made a career. But that’s another story.

No, I was in the army for three years, (2 years, 10 months), and that’s enough. But about your passion for engines, that’s something we share: Trains (including steamers), Trucks, Aircraft, the older the more interesting. I even have some nice old italians in my collection. From the Savoia Marchetti S.73 to the Junkers Ju 52 3m in Ala Littoria livery…

Yes, my airplanes on FS9. The S.73 just appeared recently and is a wonderful model, even featuring real sounds for at least one of the three engine choices. Handles like the real thing and just looks awesome!

I just watched it again. Man those picture have suffered a lot in quality…

I had the bad habit to take at least one picture on every flight, until I had hundreds of them just sittin around my harddrive and occupying space. You know, .bmp’s. So I decided to do a little cleanup job and put the best pictures in the video you saw. I’ve flown it all from the Wright Flyer to the Concorde, From the An 124 to the Tu 144., as real as it gets. Each of the plannes has a life and a logbook. Many of them, I even ferried from the factory to their new home.

Romantic? I tell you something: Though realism has increased dramatically (sound, symstems and systemm failures, navigation, ATC, graphics, procedures) it still is just a bad excuse for a replacement of the real thing. There’s nothing like “holding the reils” yourself in a real plane, especially in a glider!

I have no experience about X-plane, so I can’t comment on that.

Some remark of yours I forgo to adress: I never said I have NO accent. I just said I don’t have a german accent. I hate that german accent… People take my English for American English usually, but americans find it hard to decide where to put me. It’s because I picked up a little from every corner, I guess.

Yeah, you nailed it: These simulations enable you to do things you will never be able to do in real life. And if on top of that you are the kind of person who dreams of large journeys, visiting foreign countries and people, or in part even did such things in real life, then the appeal of such simulations is multiplied.

When I grew up, adults always talked about how bad computer games would be for kids. They kill your phantasie, because they deliver to you the images (some part of that is actually true), they isolate you, because you don’t go out and play, and they have no educative value, they make you brutal…

But look around: People from all over the world gather in forums, they explore foreign countries, and curiosity may even lead them to learn more about that country they explore in the sim, by having a stroll to Wikipedia or youtube. People interact, make friends worldwide and overcome prejudices.
Would there rise a new Hitler our Mussolini, I could not imagine that the two of us might find ourselves shooting at each other.
In China and in Turkey, imagine that. people actually discuss about MY traffic density mod I released three or four days ago, and they use it in their sim! That’s just unbelievable! That was my first published ETS2 Mod, a very simple one at that, you know, so I am a nobody, not a star modder like Harry Piel, Merlinita or Goba.
Now we’re talking about Russia. Goba and others give us a glimpse of what it is really like (and Goba may even lead some more people to learn the cyrillic alphabeth). Imagine, 15 years ago this would have been nothing but a wild dream! No chance during the cold war. I never ceased to be amazed about this, you see…

Could you enlighten me as to how I have to imagine a farming simulator? I mean, so you own a farm and have to run it from sawing to harvest to winterwork, or are you driving around in a combine harvester and learn how harvesting is done best and most efficiently?

I grew up in a small village, at least until I was 12 and we moved, so I spend uncounted hours watching the peasants do their work. We had three families of them in that village. And damned how many times I dreamed to be the one on that tractor. One of those farmers had three kids, two of them in my age, and I envied them like hell when they drove by on a tractor or drove the cows to the field while I rode on shoemaker’s horse (like we phrase it in Germany, meaning walked) like the pilgrims to Mekka…

Now I almost need to defend flight simulator. There have been various huge improvements on systems and necessary procedures, especially by freeware authors. The Russians in particular have been very ingenious in that field. You got your FMC in an Airbus with almost everythig working like in reality, you got your systems that normally would be operated by three peoppe in your DC-6, and excatly where they are in the real thing, looking like the real thing, you got to worry about cylinder head temperatures, turbo gears, cabin pressure, fuel temperature, fuel feed from multiple tanks, realistic navigational aids. You can overstress your engines, make the fuel freeze, make the passengers suffocate or the hull rupture. Handling is very near to the real thing (if not always on the ground, that’s right, but this is actually very tricky to achieve in coding) and you can have malfunctions that you did not preset prior to your flight. The real sound and the real cockpit makes you feel like it was. But you still sit in your non moving armchair, there’s no feedback from your backside, but even so, my pulse rate still goes up before any simulated landing,

You know what? I probably use that very same gamepad (speedlink), for the very same reasons. And to be honest, I’m not too happy about how it is interfaced with ETS2. I tried dozends of settings, even “making ” it a stearing wheel and turning auto center off, but here’s the problem: When you push that stick all the way over, the front tires move quickly.
If you just touch it, the wheel is moving slowly and CONTINUES to move instead of just giving you a slight angle. Labled as a steering wheel however, movements are way to abrupt, no matter what tweaking you do in the settings.

During the military time, I was a playstation fanatic. Gran Turismo from the very first version up to the P3 version, Collin McRae, DTM 1-3, Driver, LA-Rush, Need for Speed, Formula 1 from 1997 to 2005, NASCAR 98 and 2000, I played it all. So from Gran Turismo, I am used to that kind of stearing, doing very fine movements when stearing, maxing up my laptimes, shifting manually to have the right amount of torque at the right times.

Have you ever driven Le Mans on Gran Tourismo, with a real Le Mans car? In the old track layout, featuring that bumpy 3 km straight were you hit in exess of 350 km/h, barely managing to keep the car on track at the very edge of grip, especially when pulling out of someone’s slipstream? Ohhh yeah, that’s the feeling!

I prefer to sit on my bed with the keyboard on my lap, coffe and tabacco to my left, leaning on a pillow and watching my screen to the side than sitting straigt up in a chair, having pedals somehow mounted to the floor so they don’t slide back, and having the wheel mounted to the table so it won’t slip either. These things may add to realism and enable you to much smoother inputs, but, plainly, they are inconvnient to be used for a relaxed session in front of your computer. I tried that back in playstation times. I think that’s exactely your point, too.

Nordschleife used to be my test site as well, except for the Le Mans cars for their poor ground clearance. I even tested snails like the ancient Cinquecento or the old VW Beetle there…

Now that you say it, it might even be 12 kilometer straight. I haven’t played it in years, so my memory fails me. Need for Speed had it’s appeal because of the music and the scenery, which was in NfS3 something extraordinary by the standards of most contemporary Playstation games. Though I am not an arcade racer at all, that’s what keeps me lovng the game.

Gratie per i fiori 🙂

You passed the test. I wanted to know whether you hold back because of undue politeness: I can only learn if I’m corrected when necessary, so thank you for being straightforward 🙂

Well I do not correct germans speaking german. In a country with so many dialects like Germany, that’s utterly hopeless and makes you being regarded as someone who wears his nose a little too high. Besides, language is always in a constant flow and changes all the time. If people were not constantly making errors in latin grammar, you’d be speaking Latin to this day. But it is differnt when you speak a foreign language and you wanna do it right. There are two sorts of people: Those who learned a language to the point that they can get along, but with no desire to really master it, or maintaing their accent on purpose, either because of national pride (french people) or for professional reasons, because they are supposed to have an accent and people like it (italian Pizzaria owners in Germany), and those who try to master it in a way that others cannot tell that it is not your mother language. Of course, a native speaker will always at least suspect that I am not a nativespeaker myself. Some things just are telltale, be it word order, be it a certain sound (german w is a traitor, natives speak it almost like a u) or the melody of your voice. Think about germans speaking italian: Even if they master the accent, their voice melody is less vivid, unless they are reeeally good.

i don’t oppose accents in general. In fact accents can be very nice, be it a scotish accent in english, or the italian accent in german mirroring the way, italian is spoken (with your voice going up and down, stressing certain vowels etc.) . But when I hear professionals (e.g. at an airport) in germany when they talk in english, it sounds like they are incompetent or unwilling to speak a proper th, to get vowels right and to surpress the german rrrrolling r. It does not sound like an accent, it does sound like incompetence. That’s why I hate it. If you learn another language, you should at least try to get these sounds right that are contained in your mother language. I think, it is also a question of politeness and respect. Noone blames you if you can’t get an Ayin right in Hebrew or Arabics, because we don’t have that sound in the west, and if you try to produce it, it’s really hard to do right if you did not get it with your mother’s milk. But you can get an english r right, and with some practise, you can promounce a th as well. I did learn it, and if I can, everybody can.

Hi again, multilingual friend. Ambition is endless of course. Remember the gear ratio thingy? I decided to crank it up a notch. There’s a fancy Kenworth W900 aRC in my garage that always felt a bit underpowered, especially when a good 800-something HP engine was mysteriously removed from the mod (realism, likely). I want it back by modifying torque and horsepower of another engine. Can it be achieved through 7-Zip?

Well, what happened is actually this: first of all, since you gave me the key (wish i could bold this line here 😉 ), i opened the def folder of my truck, found the engines, chose my victim and changed horsepower and torque. After doing that a doubt crossed my mind: what if i only changed the information displayed in the shop while the effective power is still the same? Since i currently can’t run the game because of being busy, I’ll ask my recently acquired Grand Master. Of course i backed up the original engine (it’s still slammed on my desktop, waiting for me to go and see wether or not my little tuning experiment actually worked), so since looks like i’ve done the right thing, i only have to check it. As for the badge, no worry: it’s my game, so as long as i know what i’ve fumbled with, you can bet i’ll remember that. And my mental scheme only works with easily recognizable spots in which i operate these modifications, thus you can be sure my modded engine-transmission-whatever will be either the first or the last in line.