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From: sarrel@dulcimer.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Head-to-Head Falcon. It's Here!
Keywords: Falcon, Spectrum Holobyte, Upgrade
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Date: 27 Sep 88 15:15:41 GMT
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Yes, a friend of mine got his upgrade a while ago.  I'm still waiting
for mine.  We've played several times, although he's beaten me more
than I've beaten him.  I generally like the improvements to the HUD's,
although I haven't really used the new radar mode yet.

I find that it's more interesting to play against a human rather than
just the computer.  I think that I'm getting better, faster.  What I'd
like to see is multiple F-16's teaming up on Mig's during missions.
It's already possible for one mac to handle an F-16 and two or three
Mig's, so this could all be done, speed wise at least, with one Mac
for each human player.  Of course, this version would only work over
Appletalk... 

I still have one gripe, though.  On neither the Plus nor the SE will
Falcon run under system 6.x, although it will happily do so on a II.
The new documentation says this explicitly.  Does anyone know the
reason _why_?  Is this something that is unfixable?  Please enlighten
me.

"Watch your six..."
-=-
 Marc Sarrel, Department of Computer and Information Science
 The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH USA 43210-1277
 sarrel@cis.ohio-state.edu
 "If you wanna have fun, go to Washington.  Spokane!"  -- Cleric Apton