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- From: roeschmf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Martin F. Roesch)
- Subject: Re: Falcon 3.0 Bugs and patches
- Message-ID: <roeschmf.711944477@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>
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- Organization: Clarkson University
- References: <dedmunds.711839450@sfu.ca>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 02:21:17 GMT
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- dedmunds@selkirk.sfu.ca (Darran Edward Edmundson) writes:
-
- >jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis) writes:
-
- >>The game is awsome though, if you have the right hardware. I don't remember
- >>what the minimum listed was, but to really get full use out of it, you
- >>need a 25 or 33 mhz 386 with a 2 meg of RAM and DOS 5.0 (or equivalent).
- >>A Sound Blaster and 2 joysticks (or flight-stick) make a big difference too.
- >>Oh yeh, about 12 meg of disk space.
-
- >I've played Falcon 3.0 on a 25 MHz 386 but find it virtually unplayable. For
- >one thing, he doesn't have a coprocessor and so the high fidelity flight
- >model is unavailable. The frame rate is also quite low even with a
- >relatively low level of scenery detail - put 8 planes in the air and this
- >problem is accentuated.
-
- >I wouldn't buy it if I didn't have at least a 25MHz 486 and a decent video
- >card. And patch D still has bugs!
-
- Ahem, I have a 386/40 and everything runs great. Oh, yeah, they cost as
- little as $190 for a motherboard these days, so if you save for a while, it
- shouldn't be a problem. You can cut the space requirements about in half
- by getting rid of the animation and music files. No noticeable slowdown with
- upwards of 20 planes in the area.
-
- >As for sound, do real F16 pilots have to put up with that growl from the
- >sidewinders even when no target is sighted?
-
- Yes, they do!
-
- >Patch D for `Death'.
-
- The AI is notorious as being rather difficult, but hey, F3 requires a little
- practice to fly if you want to be good!
-
- Marty
- roeschmf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
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