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Re: Tongass Fjords and FsAddon
« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2021, 03:12:31 PM »
What a great guy.  Thank you, Francois!

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Re: Tongass Fjords and FsAddon
« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2021, 03:34:57 PM »
Thanks goes also to Holger and Bill, the developers of Tongass.....
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Re: Tongass Fjords and FsAddon
« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2021, 05:47:55 PM »
Double WOW such a generous offer thank you for your decision

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Re: Tongass Fjords and FsAddon
« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2021, 02:44:11 AM »
Thank you Francois, Holger, and Bill.  Very kind of you for doing this.

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Re: Tongass Fjords and FsAddon
« Reply #19 on: January 15, 2021, 03:20:22 AM »
This is a very noble and extremely generous offer from you, Francois! Thank you very much for that!

TongassX was one of the best scenery software ever created for FSX / P3D. Thanks also to Holger Sandmann and Bill Womack.

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Re: Tongass Fjords and FsAddon
« Reply #20 on: January 15, 2021, 07:34:40 AM »
Hopefully Rod can convince the developers that the sales of TF software were greatly enhanced by RTMM members, and they can come to some sort of agreement that allows us to distribute it in some form. Freeware??

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Re: Tongass Fjords and FsAddon
« Reply #21 on: January 15, 2021, 08:19:39 AM »
Thank you very much. Your unselfish gift to RTMM is so greatly appreciated by all of us!

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Re: Tongass Fjords and FsAddon
« Reply #22 on: January 15, 2021, 10:01:10 AM »
Fantastic news. Many thanks to Francois and Holger.

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Re: Tongass Fjords and FsAddon
« Reply #23 on: January 15, 2021, 02:40:00 PM »
This is a very noble and extremely generous offer from you, Francois! Thank you very much for that!

TongassX was one of the best scenery software ever created for FSX / P3D. Thanks also to Holger Sandmann and Bill Womack.

Dieter
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Hi Dieter,

I sure do..... long time ago, but great times !!!

Francois A. 'Navman' Dumas



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Re: Tongass Fjords and FsAddon
« Reply #24 on: January 24, 2021, 02:32:10 PM »
Hello all,  Anything further on the availability of Tongass Fjords???  Regards, Stan

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« Reply #25 on: January 24, 2021, 02:44:47 PM »
Hi Stan,

Did you not see the announcement in the Notams area?  Here is link:

https://forum.mistymoorings.com/index.php?topic=2044.msg44007#new

Rod

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Re: Tongass Fjords and FsAddon
« Reply #26 on: January 24, 2021, 05:08:13 PM »
Hello all,  Anything further on the availability of Tongass Fjords???  Regards, Stan

Check your PM Stan.. I sent you a note last week on it.. now available. PM me with your email ID: and voila will receive.

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Re: Tongass Fjords and FsAddon
« Reply #27 on: January 24, 2021, 08:01:06 PM »
Thanks  Francois. I have a copy, but I know people who lost theirs. This is wonderful.
 Sue

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Re: Tongass Fjords and FsAddon
« Reply #28 on: January 25, 2021, 09:39:50 PM »
Hello All,  Got the file and unzipped it.  Installed it on FSX:SE and got a message: "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft games\Flight Simulator\10.0" registry setup path not found.  Started FSX:SE and to cut a long story short, TF higher priority seems OK but TF lower priority doesn't work correctly.  Tried to install on an older, Windows 7 machine but installer wants to use F:\FTS but that machine doesn't have an F drive.  It will start to install on the C drive where FSX resides but latterly tries to write to the F drive which doesn't exist.

I'd prefer to stay on the R11 and with FSX:SE.  Ideas, suggestions, workarounds, ???

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Re: Tongass Fjords and FsAddon
« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2021, 10:53:55 AM »
Hello All,  Got the file and unzipped it.  Installed it on FSX:SE and got a message: "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft games\Flight Simulator\10.0" registry setup path not found.  Started FSX:SE and to cut a long story short, TF higher priority seems OK but TF lower priority doesn't work correctly.  Tried to install on an older, Windows 7 machine but installer wants to use F:\FTS but that machine doesn't have an F drive.  It will start to install on the C drive where FSX resides but latterly tries to write to the F drive which doesn't exist.

I'd prefer to stay on the R11 and with FSX:SE.  Ideas, suggestions, workarounds, ???


Tongass is designed to into to FSX (Boxed Verson). Not FSE-SE or P3D.
And Tongass looks at the registry to find the FSX path (or the designated path).

So... 
(from a Holgerpost that is still intact), see:  http://fssupport.com/fsaddonforum/index.php?topic=88.0)

1. use a FSX registry tool to temporarily direct the FSX-SE registry path to a temp folder. For that to work you need to also place a copy of the FSX-SE "fsx.exe" file as well as the FSX-SE "terrain.cfg" file into the temp folder. Then run the installer into the temp folder.

2. use the file list provided in the first post in this thread -- http://fssupport.com/fsaddonforum/index.php?topic=34.0 -- to manually copy all TFX files and folders to your FSX-SE installation. Then manually add the two TFX entries to the scenery library menu and the block of TFX entries (also attached to that thread) into your FSX-SE terrain.cfg file.
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Now the FSX Registry utility tool in item #1 (that is one of the easiest to use is by tweakfs. This will allow you to establish and set up your registry to create an empty/dummy FSX installation folder to any location.

LINK: To the tweakfs Free Tools page:  https://www.tweakfs.com/store/free_tools.php

Direct Link to this FSX registry utility:
https://tweakfs.com/store/download_file.php?f=tweakfs_zip_fsx.zip&s=9942d36011a6ac3ef46e540f6e9d778b&d=58d407867dc43d93423c3d9853ce380f&t=1611675470

Download and extract the zip file to temp folder, run FILE: FSXRegUtility.exe. (Click file below to download this registry tool - from tweakfs). FSX_reg_utility.zip

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So trying to get Tongass into FSX-SE is like trying to get Tongass into P3D.

Need FSX Registry to a temp FSX path..
Install Tongass to that temp path/folder
Move all of the folders and files over to the FSX-SE paths
Update the Terrain.cfg file.
Add the two entries to the scenery library.

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It follows the same procedure for the Tongass into P3D install..

https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/491556-installing-tongass-fjords-x-prepar3d-v3-v4/


Try it and if you have any probs just yell.

Norm

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