To: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) From: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Reply-To: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Sender: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Errors-To: postmaster@falcon3.k9.com Return-Path: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Precedence: bulk Bcc: falcon3-outgoing Subject: Falcon3 Digest V6 : I82 Falcon3 Digest Volume 6 : Issue 82 Wed Oct 26 08:06:47 PDT 1994 Compilation copyright (C) 1994 Jeff Beadles Send submissions to "falcon3@falcon3.k9.com" Send add/drop requests to "majordomo@falcon3.k9.com" Archives are available via ftp from cactus.org Today's Topics: Misc stuff krismon@Neuromancer.HACKS.Arizona.E Falcon Gold and OS/2 Martin Gosselin Memory problems. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: krismon@Neuromancer.HACKS.Arizona.EDU (Kristoffer Ongbongan) Subject: Misc stuff > What level are you playing your campaigns at, perhaps this makes a > difference. It could be just bad odds too. I had a guy eject in Italy > after coming back from Gorazde the other day. He was 10 miles from base > (and out of gas) and punched out in the mountains--MIA. Conversely, I've > lost guys in enemy territory and they get rescued. My best guess is that the sim sets up odds (maybe depending on the level of play) in which y ou roll the dice to see if you're MIA or rescued. > >A question... which is the better product, Hornet or MiG-29 addons? I'm > >guessing nobody in Canada wants to trade with me for one of these (in > >exchange for something like Strike Commander.. > As a die hard falcoholic, I don't really like the 'gaminess' of Strike Commander, we went through this last year(or was it the year before last) when SC came out. I really like Hornet, I tend to fly it more than I do the other planes(Falcon, Fulcrum). I don't know if it's the flight model or if I'm just tired of the Falcon. The Fulcrum is a good plane, and I think it's modelled pretty well, but for me, it's pretty hard to fly, and you have to get used to constantly adjusting the trim. > Yeesh, I wouldn't trade Pacman for strike commander! Don't knock Pacman! =P I think that Pacman, more than Pong, revolutionized the game industry, and makes it what it is today. Because of the success of pacman, a lot of people who otherwise would be working for Microsoft are making games today. Thank God for Pacman. I still play Pacman at least once a week. Kris. - -- krismon@neuromancer.hacks.arizona.edu -=- The Electronic Battlefield Series FAQ ftp://hh.sbay.org/users/krismon/ebsfaq (ebsfaq or falcon3 faq) http://neuromancer.hacks.arizona.edu/~krismon/public.html ------------------------------- From: Martin Gosselin Subject: Falcon Gold and OS/2 Hi folks! Well this could be the last time I write and see the news... Anyway, I'll give all informations I have on the OS/2 - Falcon Gold tandem. The best I could get from it are: Besides the starting animation AND the digitized sounds during the game, all the rest works fine. On the starting animation, everything freeze. OK, so next time I'll skip it just to see. This time it worked fine. Good. The only other problems occur when a plane psee over me, when my wingmans speak, when the awacs speak. The flow movement goes jerky, sometimes the screen completely freeze during the speack wich sounds like a bad sampling of the original. I suspect a bad EMM memory driver drom IBM but when I try the DOS one, it simply dont want to load... no himem loaded. Well Sounds like Microsoft drivers dont want to work with the IBM's one. Thoses problems happend with the 3 programs i.e.: Falconcd, migcd and hornetcd. I will give you the setting I use to get the best of Falcon Gold under OS/2. Remember, I'm still a newbie of OS/2. Maybe someone would find something that will let me play without the problems. I loose my account. This is the last time I have acces to the Net until I find a public Internet provider. Until then, you can give me the hints/answers to a friend of mine: joss@gel.ulaval.ca with my name in the subject field. Let's see my settings... AUDIO_ADAPTER_SHARING: REQUIRED COM_DIRECT_ACCES: ON COM_HOLD: ON COM_RECEIVE_BUFFER_FLUSH: NONE COM_SELECT: ALL DOS_AUTOEXEC: C:\FALCONCD\AUTOEXEC.F30 DOS_BACKGROUND_EXECUTION: OFF DOS_BREAK: OFF DOS_DEVICE: blank DOS_FCBS: 16 DOS_FCBS_KEEP: 8 DOS_FILES: 25 DOS_HIGH: ON DOS_LASTDRIVE: J DOS_RMSIZE: 640 DOS_SHELL: standard, no change from OS/2 initial setting DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE: blank DOS_UMB: ON DOS_VERSION: standard, no change from OS/2 initial setting DPMI_DOS_API: ENABLED DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT: 4 DPMI_NETWORK_BUFF_SIZE: 1 EMS_FRAME_LOCATION: AUTO EMS_HIGH_OS_MAP_REGION: 0 EMS_LOW_OS_MAP_REGION: 384 EMS_MEMORY_LIMIT: 2048 HW_NOSOUND: OFF HW_ROM_TO_RAM: ON HW_TIMER: ON IDLE_SECONDS: 0 IDLE_SENSITIVITY: 75 INT_DURING_IO: ON KBD_ALTHOME_BYPASS: ON KBD_BUFFER_EXTEND: ON KBD_CTRL_BYPASS: NONE KBD_RATE_LOCK: OFF MEM_EXCLUDE_REGIONS: blank MEM_INCLUDE_REGIONS: blank MOUSE_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS: OFF PRINT_SEPERATE_OUTPUT: OFF PRINT_TIMEOUT: 15 VIDEO_8514A_XGA_IOTRAP: OFF VIDEO_FASTPASTE: OFF VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION: NONE VIDEO_ONDEMAND_MEMORY: ON VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION: OFF VIDEO_ROM_EMULATION: OFF VIDEO_SWITCH_NOTIFICATION: ON VIDEO_WINDOW_REFRESH: 1 XMS_HANDLES: 32 XMS_MEMORY_LIMIT: 2048 XMS_MINIMUM_HMA: 30 The content of autoexec.f30 is : set sound=c:\sb16 set midi=synth:1 map:e set blaster=a220 i5 d1 h5 p330 t6 c:\sb16\sb16set /m:220 /voc:220 /cd:220 /midi:220 /treble:0 The 3 games have the same settings. I hope this could help someone... I hope that someone could help me. :) Martin "Nasa" Gosselin ->F-16 Pilot|Falcon 3.0, It's not a game... Nitrama "Hell" Gossolovich ->Mig-29 Pilot| Fly high... fly low... Martin "Goose" Gosselin ->F/A-18 Pilot| but ALWAYS check six!! E-mail:gosselin@etu.gel.ulaval.ca DO NOT SEND MAIL THERE. THE ADRESS IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. SEND IT TO JOSS@GEL.ULAVAL.CA WITH SUBJECT: MARTIN GOSSELIN. ------------------------------- From: Korhonen Tommi Subject: Hornet, control and landing I have founf the Hornet flight model the best so far. Unfortunately it is also the hardest to fly! Until I got my ne powerful machine it was almost unflyable. I still seem to have problems controlling the oversensitive system. For example we have the oscillation on slow speeds Ed told us about. I can rarely land the plane safely. How is it done? If I was in the Viper I could slam it right into the deck. But with Hornet the flight path oscillates too easily... What gives? Hints?! I also don't like it that you can't get the landing slope instrumentation with the flight path predictor! If only you could get the LSI on the multiscreens... Even if they are not even comparable, this sometimes makes Fleet Defender more playable! And then, does anyone else find winning campaings harder in Hornet than in Falcon? It is mostly due to the bigger number of catch-the-grail kind missions I think, but still it is the only one I haven't beaten yet. (difficulty 91 if I remeber right) T.Korhonen *** *** k138836@cc.tut.fi ** Hanen suurin virheensa ** Physics & Something *** *** ------------------------------- From: Chera Bekker Subject: IFF Stuart wrote: > > You suppositions are correct. The only aircraft asked for the IFF check is > the one locked up. The IFF ID request travels out on that very small beam to > the locked target. IFF is very similar to the civilian altitude transponder, Is it also possible (in real life) to IFF multiple targets in a TWS (track while scan) mode? As a related (?) question: what exactly do modern radar warning systems show? Only radars which lock you up or just about every kind of radar energy picked up by the sensors? Is the radar warning system customazible? I.e. can the pilot tell it to ignore certain types of signals based on frequency and/or pulse repetition rates? check .... Chera H.G. Bekker bekker@tn.utwente.nl Voice: +3153893107 Applied Physics Fax: +3153354003 University of Twente PGP public key - finger: Si vis pacem The Netherlands bekker@slater.tn.utwente.nl Para Bellum ------------------------------- From: Subject: Memory problems. Keep in mind that the amount you can cram into UMB blocks changes from machine to machine (your milage may vary!). I have seen machines where you can get all the monster TSRs and drivers up there but that is rare. Different BIOS makers and versions use up parts of upper memory. Some cards also take a chunk. Network cards are really bad. My home machine used to be able to stuff everything high. Then I added a CD-ROM interface and an ethernet card and lost a big chunk of upper memory. If you don't mind a speed hit you can disable shadow ram in your BIOS while running Falcon. Usually frees up 64 to 256k. I say usually because I have seen machines where the BIOS still reserves the memory even when shadowing is disabled. Assuming you run other programs besides Falcon there is an option on either HIMEM.SYS or EMM386.SYS to turn shadowing on from software. Saves a lot of trips to the BIOS setup screen... -------------- Nathan Vonada nav@macola.usa.com "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" ------------------------------- [[ End of digest Volume 6 : Issue 82 ]]