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From: me128-aw@kepler.Berkeley.EDU (me128 student)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Save your money re: FALCON
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Date: 2 Jan 89 01:29:16 GMT
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In article <12895@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>Well, it appears that Spectrum Holobyte can be added to the list of companies
>that consider the Amiga lower than a whale turd.
>
>Their latest disaster, FALCON, exemplifies their "Screw The Amiga" attitude.

Actually, I like FALCON, but agree with you that it is NOT an AMIGA program.
I talked to a programmer from SH and he said that management was putting
MASSIVE pressure on the programmers to do a quick port.  Thus, no 020
support (AAGHH! my Lucas board!) and st-type menus.

To add to the bug list, FALCON will not work under 1.3 if an autobooting
rad: exists in memory!  (at least it didn't work for me)  The only solution:
turn the machine off and then on again.  I guess it does some type of partial
reset or something half-way thru the boot procedure.  I hope this doesn't mean
that it won't work with autobooting Hard disk controllers.  Imaging having
to pull out your hard card everytime you want to play!  Sheesh!

-Vincent H. Lee