World Wide Guide to FS Scenery Design | Top 20 Free Scenery Files


 1. Balearic Islands

Juan Cabeza's 1994 pioneering scenery of the "gems of the Mediterranean"
won 19 nominations,
8 for first place.
Two zip files,
540k.

New! FS Windows 95 version:

balea95.zip from FTP.IUP.EDU

FS 5.x version:

balbgl.zip: from FTP.IUP.EDU       from WINGS.ARK.COM

balfix.zip:  from FTP.IUP.EDU       from WINGS.ARK.COM


Comments on nominations for Balearic Islands:

"First spectacular detailed scenery I saw..."

"It's just simply so beautiful and in a nice part of the earth..."

"Beautiful and fast..."

"It's a joy to fly in from Barcelona. I really got holiday feelings..."

"Juan showed us (and the commercial scenery creators) in this very early scenery what can be done..."

"Visually good, fair coverage."

"An early pioneer of detail and sheer beauty of scenery...."

"The original version was one of the first to employ improved textures and I can vividly remember being both impressed and excited about future sceneries when I approached from Barcelona during one of Al Pelletier's early Round Robins...."

[Although developed for FS 5.0, reports are that this scenery works fairly well with the FS5.1 disk version, but there may be problems running from CD. Also, mountain heights may not be accurate in 5.1.]


Last updated 8 June 1996 by Gene Kraybill. All rights reserved.