April 2008

My new virtual SF-260

Submitted by ldsandon on Sun, 2008-04-20 23:31

I've bought a new airplane for FSX, a RealAir Simulations SIAI-Marchetti SF-260. Here some screenshots I made (image has been resized and compressed - it's even better!):

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Logitech and its damned LVUSBSta.sys driver

Submitted by ldsandon on Sun, 2008-04-13 14:26

I've bought a Logitech STX QuickCam Communicate STX webcam - nothing sophisticated - just needed a simple, good quality webcam to be used in Skype chats.

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The useful App Paths registry key

Submitted by ldsandon on Mon, 2008-04-07 11:18

Yesterday on the Italian Delphi newsgroup run by Marco Cantù, Delphi&Dintorni, appeared a post asking how to load BPLs without writing them in the system directory or in the application directory.
I suggested to use the "App paths" registry key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths], but while looking for a reference for its proper use I didn't find a complete one, even on MSDN. It looks to be poorly documented, yet it's a very useful key.

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