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If other pressing activities had not been the reason for me taking leave from the Forum for a while, Bill Downside's (NERR) response in my "ABACUS Train Sim Modeler" Thread most certainly would have been ! I just can not be bothered putting up with some of these comments anymore !I am trying to be a Perfectionist in all I do, well known by some. Got to be, writing Mission Critical Accounting, Analogue Telecoms Communications and Office Administration Software. I am a well known Fan and Admirer of FREEWARE Routes such as the ALBULA, P.O.&.N., N.&.J.C., Seaview-III, NEC-4, Cajon, Wupper Express, LGV-MED, Arlberg, Semmering, New Zealand Route, XTracks, Kurt Kaminer's Seaview Express', 3D-Trains and many others, not listed here in any order of Preference, helping some improve their already EXCELLENT creations. There are also one or two who were on the receiving end of my Gratitude, expressed in other ways ! Maps for the N.&.J.C. and P.O.&.N., helping Teemu Saukkonen with a few problems, Kurt Kaminer with re-sizing his Consists, LINIE-27 with a Reverse Loop problem, Jim Ward with providing a Download Section for his BETA-6 on my Web Site, formatting David Beach's list of all there is in TSECTION.DAT, publishing my version of it recently, doing German to English Translations for Ralf Schölke, etc, etc, etc.Most of all I was one of the motivators behind the creation of the RAILDRIVER since giving PIEngineering the idea using their programmable X-KEYS Keypads back in 2001, helping with Installation Instructions and EXCEL created coloured Key Tops. Now I trying to talk them into creating an affordable version of it for use as a Flight Sim Throttle, Flaps, Speed Brakes, Communications, Autopilot, etc, Console for FS Civil Aviation Aeroplanes ! This here Beastie, try lifting it , cost me $ 1800 to ship to the U.K. and is nowhere near a complete array of controls compared with what is required flying a FS CA Plane for real, 
needing other expensive hardware like this one to supplement it.
The BOTTOMLINE is that I have been "Complaining" many times about these guys GIVING AWAY their BRILLIANT work I could not improve upon, mostly to guys not really appreciating such EXCELLENCE, moaning about this, that and the other, destroying most of the Creators desire to produce more, such as the recent case with the WUPPER's Ralf Schölke. I sometimes feel embarrassed having to accept their FREE Add-Ons, knowing the amount of work that goes into creating them, being a programmer myself, albeit mostly in an easier, text and numbers only DOS based programming environment !Even paid some Creators of FREE ADD-ONs to send me CDs of their latest Add-Ons I can not download for Bandwidth reasons !ABACUS and other Distributors having been a Bone of Discontent with me and many others for some time, in my case since the launch of FS2000, I am working on an idea to create an International Online Distribution Centre for ALL SIMMING later this year, after the release of the next MSTS, applying strict Quality Control and testing of all products before providing them on CD.Would not be doing it for the sake of making money, not needed at my age any more, but for the satisfaction of doing a good job ! I still need to keep my Brain in good working order !!! Obviously, people helping me if things get too busy will have to be paid, providing employment ? In the case of MSTS Add-Ons, all the MSTS Default Files would be INSTALLME.Bat'ed, ROUTE-RITER'ed (with the permission of it's creator) down to the minimum set of files needed, TEST RUN and put on CDs for SIMPLE COPYING to users MSTS \ROUTES\ Folders wherever they may be on their hard drives, READY TO RUN.Permission from other FREEWARE Creators of Utilities such as ENGMOD, CONBUILDER, etc, forthcoming, they could be included on the CDs also, again for a share of the proceeds ! No Instructions nor Manuals needed, the same as with my Accounting Software, all being self-explanatory with On-Screen Instructions even Dummies can handle ! FREEWARE Creators will have to accept some payment for their hard work ! I refuse to give anything of theirs away for NOTHING, charging for my handling costs only !!! If there is sufficient interest I shall go ahead with it. The INTERNET being brittle and seemingly at it's end in it's present shape and form, misused by all and sundry, will make the need for such a Service inevitable. Some USA Online Vendors are already starting to refuse NON-USA Plastic of any kind, no doubt due to increasing fraudulent use of cards !It would be a simple Web Site on a USA SERVER created and maintained by my son Robert, one of the USA's leading SERVER Software Engineers at NOVELL, holder of 4 related Patents, yet to be talked into doing it , listing all SIMS Software available under their various headings. AND World Wide Simming Media Advertisements for those who are not aware of what there is on the WEB. I already have contacts with many of their Editors from a previous Raildriver's X-KEYS series of my articles published by them. $$$, £££ and EURO Bank Notes Surface or Air-Mailed to the Distribution Centre only and Software CDs Surface or AIR-MAILED by return as soon as possible. Probably a bit slow to start with if it takes off ! I might even add a SIMMER's FORUM to it (no competition intended, Nels ), paying members only, but controlled and monitored somewhat different to existing ones, as you can imagine.Upsetting me is not going to be of benefit to anybody ! In the words of a famous Countryman of mine "I'LL BE BACK" !!! O t t o
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(E-Mail Link at the bottom of)This is "My World" I "LIVE" in most of the time, not really a way of life recommended for a 74 years old Health ! 
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