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    Gmax question

    While setting up my new confutor (it's functional but still a work in progress in some ways) and installing FS9 I also installed Gmax. I've never even booted up the program on my old rig but it came with FS9 for free so I figured I'd install it, thinking that maybe some day I'll get the time to learn something about it. (Never mind that I've had FSDS3 for a few years now and still haven't ever had the time to boot it up and learn something about it.)

    Anyway, when I installed it in the new rig I dug out my old registration code that I got years ago and entered it - only to have a box pop telling me that my registration code is no longer valid and I must get a new one. It even provided a link to click to get a new one for free. But of course Gmax is discontinued and the link no longer works as intended.

    Does anyone have any idea how or where to get a working Gmax registration key?

    I suppose not, but I thought I'd ask anyway and hope to be surprised.

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    Hi Mick
    You can find a registration key at the free flight site, that was uploaded at SOH, here is the link:
    http://www.sim-outhouse.com/freeflig...Workaround.zip

    Have fun with Gmax, cheers
    Martin

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    Thank you!

    Maybe this time I'll find some time to check it out and learn something before I wear out the new computer.

    Cheers!

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    Having had a M$ update earlier this year that somehow messed up ownership & permissions, as well as setting up a new to me second hand confuter zeroed by my IT specialist son.......I have been unable to complete an aircraft into a .mdl. So I am in the state of starting to reinstall gmax etc.
    FS developer wiki is ones friend, although I have been unable to source Chris File's Middleman in its unloaded state, which is a bit of a luxury. So good luck Mick.
    Keith

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    I thought I needed a registrATION key, but what it took was a registrY key. Or two of them actually. As in the file linked in Martin’s post above.

    It seems that registration keys are somehow time-limited and none of them will work anymore. And with Gmax in abandonware status there won’t ever be any new ones. But those registry keys do the trick and now I have Gmax installed.

    But as I mentioned in my original post, I’ve had FSDS3 for a few years now and never found the time to boot it up. Just like some of the excellent scenery programs I’ve acquired and never had time to learn anything about. So who knows when or if I’ll get a chance to check out any of them. It takes all my hobby time to paint other guys’ models and I enjoy that too much to cut down on it.

    I used to have the delusions that once I retired I’d have more hobby time and could not only learn to make models and scenery but actually fly once in a while. Not! Since my retirement I’ve had less hobby time than I did when I worked a full time job. It’s now been nearly fourteen years and that’s shown no sign of changing.

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