Path: utzoo!vpk4!scott From: scott@vpk4.UUCP (Scott MacQuarrie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: F-18 Interceptor Message-ID: <4197@vpk4.UUCP> Date: 1 Mar 89 17:05:55 GMT References: <1368@ubu.warwick.UUCP> Reply-To: scott@attcan.UUCP (Scott MacQuarrie) Distribution: comp Organization: AT&T Canada Inc., Toronto Lines: 59 In article <1368@ubu.warwick.UUCP> you write: > Also about F-16 Falcon. I have attempted to make a backup of it but >have had some trouble actually copying it. It will let me copy both disks but >the first one seems to include a routine that determines whether that disk is a >copy - if it is then you are allowed to take off but after about 20 seconds all >systems fail and you crash ! Has anyone else noticed this and does anyone know >of a copyier that will overcome this and does anyone know of or have any idea >how to write a bit-copyier ? I have successfully copied falcon using marauder (brain 10) in order to keep my origionals from being written. I have had no problems with the copy at all. > Also to do with Falcon, is there any truth in the rumour that it won`t >let you set up a serial link with another computer using the same copy (or its >first disk and a copy of its second disk.) ? No truth to that whatsoever on the amiga version. I have played the game at a friends place between two Amigas at 19.2 and had no problems using the same copy on each machine. If you are going to connect serially between two systems, I would reccommend that you direct connect with a serial cable at play at 19.2. At 1200 baud I have noticed the response to be sluggish and slow, at 19.2 the response is as fast as the sinple player version against computer planes. Anyone who can set it up should try it at 19.2 with another person, the game is amazing between human players (very unpredictable and always fun to be able to talk to the person you are trying to shoot down :-) ). BTW, Does anyone with connections to Spectrum Holobyte read this group? If you don't already own this game, run out and buy it now. This is far and above the best flight simulation software I have ever seen and I have played many. The game is apperently quite accurate in its simulation, except the joystick on a real F-16 is sensistive to degrees of tilt. The game, due to hardware (?), can only detect direction. This is according to an actual F-16 pilot trying the game. I completed F-18 Interceptor in two weeks, I have been playing F-16 since mid-December with the same level on intensity and I am currently just halfway through Lt. Colonel. This is one very tough game to beat, but worth it. The manual has a biblography of ten books available on a variety of approp. subjects. THIS IS A GREAT GAME. Review: ***** (5 Stars) -- ------- Scott T. MacQuarrie -====------ Senior Technical Consultant, Toronto Branch, AT&T Canada -======------ -====------- Phone: 416-756-5124 UUCP: ---------- CompuServe: 73677,102 uunet!attcan!scott or ------- ATTmail: !smacquarrie uunet!attcan!strider!scott P.S. Opinions expressed are my own and represent neither statement nor policy of AT&T or AT&T Canada Inc.