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From: sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Falcon 1.0 --> 1.1
Summary: Falcon update
Keywords: falcon
Message-ID: <335@tlvx.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 90 04:08:23 GMT
References: <2492@zipeecs.umich.edu>
Organization: Temporal Vortex BBS of Jacksonville, Florida
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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
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Gary Wolfe
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