gilgalad@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) (06/04/90)
Well, I went and bought Falcon yesterday. I am very, very displeased. I got all of the 1.1 documentation, but it turns out that I received 1.0 disks. To put it mildly 1.0 is a piece of shit. I assume that there are vast improvements between 1.0 and 1.1? I was planning on putting it on my hard drive, but found out quite soon that I had received an older version. Yet another example of stupid assumptions made by some games programmers. It had to be harder for them to write it so that it couldn't run on a hard drive, than it would have been to write it correctly. Question: Can I obtain the update from them (for free that is)? Question: How much better is 1.1 than 1.0? Any complaints? Thanks, Ralph gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu gilgalad@zip.eecs.umich.edu gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu Ralph_Seguin@ub.cc.umich.edu gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu USER6TUN@UMICHUB.BITNET Ralph Seguin | In order to get infinitely many monkeys to type 565 South Zeeb Rd. | something that actually makes sense, you need to Ann Arbor, MI 48103 | have infinitely many monkey editors as well. (313) 662-1506
mofo@bucsf.bu.edu (jason greene) (06/04/90)
I too bought Falcon, albeit a year and a half ago. It took them about a year to send me an update (the 1.1) and well, I saw few changes (except that my disk 2 did not occasionally give me a recoverable r/w error). What I would suggest (unfortunately, it's too late for you) but the best one to get now is F-29 Retaliator. Made by the same folks, it's much MUCH better... more responsive and better screen flow (of course, the F-29 Retaliator IS more responsive...) but the game is a HELL of a lot better... and is really great. You go through 4 areas of the world, each with 8 missions, each mission with 4+ different stages, up to 8 total stages. It's really quite expansive and well done. However this game relies on the battle aspect (of course, why else would you want it?) Because of that, I would suggest for a straight flight simulator, the classic one and only FS2, which I still love to play (especially flying through the golden gate bridge) /\/\ofo
sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp) (06/05/90)
In article <2492@zipeecs.umich.edu>, gilgalad@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes: > Well, I went and bought Falcon yesterday. I am very, very displeased. > I got all of the 1.1 documentation, but it turns out that I received > 1.0 disks. To put it mildly 1.0 is a piece of shit. I assume that Is it that bad? Well, 1.0 is if you have anything other than a 68000, since it won't run. ;-) > there are vast improvements between 1.0 and 1.1? I was planning on Well, it runs on the '010 now... :-) There are some other minor changes; I think an article in Amazing Computing talked about some of them in the review to Op. Counterstrike. The game is pretty much the same, I guess. > putting it on my hard drive, but found out quite soon that I had received > an older version. Yet another example of stupid assumptions made by > some games programmers. It had to be harder for them to write it so > that it couldn't run on a hard drive, than it would have been to write it > correctly. > > Question: Can I obtain the update from them (for free that is)? They charge something real cheap, like $3 or so, if you just bought the game and send in the registration card. Give 'em a call. BTW, they're up to version 1.2 now. > Question: How much better is 1.1 than 1.0? Any complaints? Well, the '010 fix was a big improvement. All I can say is that updating the game for things like this is a lot better than many other game companies will do. I guess Spectrum Holobyte wants their customers to think of them again. :-) If it's not good enough, maybe you can bug them about hard drive support when you call. :-) It seems like a complicated, but interesting simulation. I only wish the frame-rate was a bit faster (especially on the 3000, it's not too fast, but at least it's faster, so I guess I shouldn't complain; y'all may think I'm crazy, but I think a jet simulator is the perfect application for the Amiga 3000. :-). Anyway, I just started playing Falcon, and it was pretty fun, so far. I think I'll enjoy it a lot more than Jet (sigh). (I also wonder if I'll ever be happy with less than 30 fps. ;-) > > > Thanks, Ralph ... -- Gary Wolfe uflorida!unf7!tlvx!sysop, unf7!tlvx!sysop@bikini.cis.ufl.edu