DaveyJJ

On the first page in the text input in green box in the bottom centre that says "Je peux choisir un lieu en précisant soit :" type in a location; i.e., Putot-en-bessin, then click the grey results link that appears below. Then on the scrolling list of dates called "Catalogue" on the left side, click one of the dates you're you're interested in. Make sure it has the red note about being free. In my case, the 1947 photo. The map should refresh and show a topographic map with little green crosses showing the points of aerial photos. Click one of those to see the area of the photo bordered and highlighted, then click the link in the pop up dialogue box that says "Télécharger la photo [Aide]" and it'll download a high resolution JPG of the aerial photo. They run about 10MB in size. Note, they're also rotated 180 degrees (at least the one's I grabbed were), i.e., north is at the bottom. Voila! (Note: Your browser's mileage may vary ... it works OK on Safari at home, not at work. Firefox works fine both place. Google Chrome choaked.)

Sounds cool. A screen shot or two of the progress would be nice to distract from the wait for the demo, if you could find the time Also, I noticed you mentioned laying roads and rivers and then doing the contours ... is that the most efficient method?

Yes, OSX demo same date/time as PC demo. Possibly very very soon.

My wife and I are going to watch the whole series again over the summer during her lull in new TV watching (now that most series are wrapping up for the year). Shiny, indeed.

You have now become the official "why the game was delayed" guy. Shoddy testers, jeesh.

Showing the fourth episode first and assuming people would understand what the hell was going on and who these people were and how they related to one another ranks right up there, though. Loved Firefly.

If I recall my urban geography courses from way back in my double major (1985-1989), a hamlet is defined simply a small village, without a church, and usually only with a single road running through it (no side streets connecting to the main road). No market, and usually at about 14-16 houses. A village has a church, and towns have markets. At least that's how I remember it, although I seem to recall one course where population also defined what one called a settlement, but that might have been North American specific. I've done some quick research for rural French hamlet pics from the 1930s and 40s and only a handful of them had cobbled roads ... mostly just well-packed dirt(?) tracks.

They're round?! WTH is Battlefront thinking?

Looks like someone took Bernard Montgomery, froze him in carbonite, and then mounted him on the side of a tank. Or am I seeing too much into this?

Mama's boys who'd never met a decent group of angry Canadian infantry. The 12th SS didn't stand a chance the minute the Canucks hit Juno.

So, regardless of what day it makes it's appearance and someone's managed to download and install it, how soon do you think it's going to be before the first complaint topic gets started on these forums? Can be any type of complaint ... bad artillery aiming, buggy gameplay, poor models, can't plays Brits?, wrong number of lugnuts on the second rear wheel of whatever model of PzIV you're nutty about, unable to install correctly, video card complaints, etc ... but will be characterized by whining and complaining that the world is now unfair and BF have no clue what they're doing, etc etc. 1. Less than 15 minutes. 2. Less than an hour. 3. BF will get at least a three hour break from dealing with us lot. 4. Within 12 hours. 5. At least a day. 6. Release? Hell, I'm planning to complain about something in the demo. 7. What? The current list of grievances we've been whining about for weeks pre-release don't count? What say the forum members?

My kids are WAY more mature (and have far better taste than that manufactured boy wonder) than that, jeez. I come in in March for Hot Lead, one of Canada's best miniatures gaming conventions. That's maturity ... 48 year old men pushing around little metals soldiers.

Hell, those were nice videos. I actually loved the look of both maps. Can't wait to get my hands on the editor.

That's exactly the point I was trying to make to gnorffy. On April 20th BF said the game will be released within 14-21 days of that day. May 11th at the latest. They just stated they're still on target, so hopefully by Wednesday of this week ...

Steve said "which was set 3 weeks ago and we still think we'll hit" ... that's up to May 11th. Over and out.

Thanks. Now I can go do other things for the next few days.

The gamerswithjobs.com interviewer said it, though, and reiterated that on the forums here, and he was told that by the folks at BF. Not worth arguing over, though, since it appears it's not happening this week. Probably have run into some last minute snags in the demo release which is not unexpected. It'll be a better demo for it. Sigh.

Something on my Apple IIe, I seem to recall. But my memories of the late 70s are tough to pin down.

Given the ongoing changes mentioned in another thread, can we now assume there's no demo today? That "a demo next week" was, in fact, a bit premature to announce so publicly? [i just a moment ago opened my Mastercard bill and there it is, USD$74.00BATTLEFRONT.COM, funny coincidence, that. Sniff.]

Hey, just down the road. Often find ourselves in Stratford.

312 QB maps and the efforts of the community map makers, including myself? There'll be plenty to keep CMBN players occupied for a very long time I suspect. LATER EDIT: Hey, I just noticed! 312 maps mentioned during my 312th post ... it's a sign the demo is coming!!!

Oh, laptop, right (glances down at his own MBP laptop, d'oh!). yes it should work right out of the box, agreed.

Hey, I can make one of those! I'll set it so that at 3:27AM every morning, the countdown timer resets to 28 hours so when you wake up the release date countdown clock will always seem to begin again at 24 hours.

I've heard others mention that's a good book and I know it's in my local library. I'll go and take it out at lunch tomorrow. Thanks for the recommendation.

Haven't all of Apple's mice have been two "button" (admittedly, one surface) mice for the last five(?) years or more? The function is turned off by default which I find really annoying so that many people don't find it in the System Preferences, but my son gets my right button/contextual click just fine after turning that on in System Preferences. Or is it the single surface that's annoying? There was a period of single button for a long time sure, but those days are long past.