wha@traffic.rutgers.edu (Ainsworth) (11/01/90)
Hi gamers! Somebody had asked about the second Falcon Mission Disk. I saw an add for it in the November AW and it looks pretty good. There's a screen shot showing the back of a HIND helicopter and it looks neat. (I had always wondered how a plane would fight a helicopter and vice-versa). Anyway, FA-18 Interceptor seems to get a lot of hype around here. Does everybody think that it's better than Falcon? I'm a Falcon player (and a happy one at that) and I have seen FA18, and thought that it seemed like a stripped down Falcon. And what about A-10 tank killer? I saw it and it looks cool, but I can kill tanks with Falcon Mission disk one... So whats the point? Bill Ainsworth
bryan@intvax.UUCP (Jon R Bryan) (11/01/90)
From article <Oct.31.12.39.11.1990.603@traffic.rutgers.edu>, by wha@traffic.rutgers.edu (Ainsworth): > > And what about A-10 tank killer? I saw it and it looks cool, > but I can kill tanks with Falcon Mission disk one... So whats the > point? I bought A-10 and, while it has some things going for it, it also has some problems. Falcon has a _much_ faster frame rate (on my A1000). A-10 gets slower and slower as it has to handle more objects. I'd say it gets down to about a frame per second sometimes. Falcon has more detail and is faster than blazes. Spectrum Holobyte has much better graphics algorithms than Dynamix, I'd say. Falcon Mission II is very impressive. -- Jon R. Bryan <=> bryan@intvax.UUCP Sandia National Laboratories Intelligent Machine Principles Division Albuquerque, New Mexico