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Post by mikeblaze on Nov 4, 2019 13:05:00 GMT -5
Don't know if I am the slow kid on the block, or if not too many people know this... For FP for early 2000s, Project AI files are not lost, even if the website is gone. They have been archived at the following address: www.projectai.com/index.phpThis is an archived image of the original website, so about 99% of the original PAI stuff is there, models, the PAI installer, airline packages, and a limited amount of the 3rd-party stuff. I uploaded about five or six files back in the day, but they were repaints only for the old models, and most of the 3rd-party stuff is not there any more. I'm not worried about the models (most of them anyways) or any of the repaints, but the availability of post-2000 FP is wonderful, and at some point if I paint more stuff in that time period, we already have a large group of FP available, enough to do a basic population of the AI traffic world for that time period. The PAI installer allows manual installation, so you can extract the FP out of the package for separate use with more modern models. Just sayin'...... :{) |
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Post by cgold on Nov 4, 2019 13:24:51 GMT -5
That link isn't behaving for me for some reason. Is there another one that links to the indexed FP's?
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Post by noob21 on Nov 4, 2019 14:27:53 GMT -5
He probably meant to send a web.archive.org link. I haven't been able to get the installer to work on anything beyond windows XP and even then the FPs are all weird and don't have good aircraft titles to be able to sort out what the hell you're looking at. The original Ultimate Traffic has some pretty accurate flightplans for 2003 but it's a little wonky and gonna be hard as hell to sift through.
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Post by mikeblaze on Nov 5, 2019 0:16:10 GMT -5
Sorry, here is the corrected website address: web.archive.org/web/20050305201326/http://www.projectai.com/index.phpThe installer works just fine in Windows 10, but the key here is to manually install to a different directory, for instance the desktop, personally all I am really after is the FP for later use. I plan on using non-PAI aircraft for the most part for this, but this is a 2020 thing for now. If you want the PAI aircraft to show up and use the PAI packages, you have to install the base aircraft packages first. The specific PAI aircraft I use (and may be painting for in the future) are the BAe ATP and the L-1011 (both sizes). The L-1011s were designed and released after the DWAI/CDAI models, and I like the continuity of the design (same designer for both). Not to knock anybody (we know who we are), but some of us in this group were about three or four years old when PAI was in full swing, so just think of it as a modification of "old" technology. The reason the aircraft appear 'wonky' is that PAI used a very basic IATA-based naming convention in the aircraft file. Also, the file names are abbreviated because it's a manual download, they have to be re-named (aircraft/airports/flightplans). Lastly, original PAI packages didn't really worry about specialty paints at first (SA/Oneworld/Skyteam aircraft, specialty liveries, etc.), the pretense was just to get the traffic moving in FS2002 and FS2004. Have fun with it, and maybe I will poop out some post-2000 paints in the new year..... I'm already doing it now to a limited extent. :{) |
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Post by cgold on Nov 5, 2019 11:37:39 GMT -5
The schedules section in the downloads archives is a literal treasure-trove of FP's... *drools* Thank you, mikeblaze for sharing this!  |
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Post by chasensfo on Nov 22, 2019 0:53:31 GMT -5
Awesome!
After 1998, I plan to help fill in the holes of the 2003 OAG project and then long down the road, fill in the remaining gap between 1998 and 2003 with the July 2001 OAG I bought. Will be nice to see the 2000s!
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Post by noob21 on Nov 22, 2019 13:16:38 GMT -5
Thanks Jason, these will likely come in good use.
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Post by chasensfo on Nov 22, 2019 21:16:56 GMT -5
WOW! Thanks, Jason!
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Post by 747sp on Dec 4, 2019 11:02:33 GMT -5
I might be being daft, but in this box I can only find files matching "mrai_su03..." with letters "m" and later. Anything ahead of "m" is missing? And all other timeframes apart from Su03 are missing too? |
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Bring back the past with Retro AI! Have a blast!
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Post by psa188 on Dec 4, 2019 12:54:24 GMT -5
Same here. I know projectai is archived on the wayback machine, but not all of them are in the links.
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Post by shakusun on Dec 4, 2019 21:38:09 GMT -5
the second link doesn't work can you reupload it |
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Post by travelsonic on Feb 4, 2021 16:15:36 GMT -5
God, Project AI, I forgot all about them (well, except when certain models I needed were hard to find, and the archived projectAI site saved my ass a few times XD) - tempted to revisit their models and the like just for fun.
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Post by chasensfo on Feb 5, 2021 9:16:33 GMT -5
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Post by noob21 on Nov 4, 2021 22:33:28 GMT -5
Pretty sure you posted the proper link to these before because I’ve got them downloaded, but there’s nothing wrong with making sure, and making a newer post for those who haven’t seen these. |
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Post by mikeblaze on Nov 7, 2021 18:07:02 GMT -5
The PAI installer works just fine for me in the 64-bit world, I have used it to recover some of the older models into the modern world
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