There is something that blows those sims out of the water entirely.
Visit this site for more information
and also
Basically, it's an online ATC simulator, with the ability to talk to real people (some of whom are real ATCO's, real pilots and those currently studing at College of ATC in Bornemouth)
And it's free too.
PM me for more help if needed,
Andrew
PS:
I've found a downloadable full version of "BAO Tower" for you all - if anyone would like a link to the page drop me a Private Message here, just to save on posting a direct link on PPRuNe (although as I said - it's abandonware as opposed to pirated software).
Bearing this in mind, I found a little solution for us XP users....
When starting TOWER with XP, you get a message saying...
this vesrion of MSVCRT20.dll is only intended for Win32s.
I fixed this by the following....
[list=1][*]go into the tower folder[*]rename MSVCRT20.dll to MSVCRT20.bak[*]rename the other file that says MSVCRT**.dll (the two ** being a number)[*]to read as MSVCRT20.dll[/list=1]
I still do not get any voice - I need to switch this off, but hey at least TOWER will run now
If someone else finds out a good fix then let us all know please.
cheers,
Andrew