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From: bryan@intvax.UUCP (Jon R Bryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: F-16 Falcon : Mission Disk #2
Message-ID: <3613@intvax.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 90 15:37:21 GMT
References: <6982@vax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Org. 1411, Albq, NM
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From article <6982@vax1.acs.udel.EDU>, by sanders@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Robert M Sanders):
> Howdy y'all,
>    I've seen several references in both csa and csag about a second 
> mission disk for Falcon, and have a couple of questions....
> 
> 1)  Will Spectrum HoloByte (SHB) do as they did with the first mission
>     disk, and offer a mail order for a somewhat reduced price (admitted
>     with an upgrade on the basic Falcon game)?

Yes, I got a flyer from them offering the mission disks (did you send in
your registration?).  Can't remember how much they were asking.

> 
> 2)  If not, (or even if so), when will it be shipping? 

I bought a copy last Thursday at my local dealer.

> 
> 3)  What's new on it!!

Helicopters, HARM missiles and Sparrow missiles (it's great to blow
those MiGs out of the sky from twenty miles away!).  The helicopters are
_rather_ high performance, I must say (anybody know a real helicopter
than can do an Immelman?), but loads of fun.  The display update seems a
wee bit faster than Mission Counterstrike, which was faster than Falcon.
Some intermittent graphics trash that I noticed on Falcon and
Counterstrike have mostly been dealt with.  I still get a 5 scan line
high band of garbage across the instrument panel on my A1000 with a meg
of Inboard memory at $C00000 (and out the rear view as well).  That's
been there since Falcon.  The controls seem a bit smoother.  I think the
enemy pilots are "smarter".

What's gone is the Black Box and modem play.  I miss the Box, but never
tried playing with someone else via modem.

> 
> 
>    Any answers would be muchly appreciated.  
> 
> 
> 						Rob
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Jon R. Bryan	<=>	bryan@intvax.UUCP
Sandia National Laboratories
Intelligent Machine Principles Division
Albuquerque, New Mexico