Original Falcon 4.0 now available via GOG.com
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Great news, it means that more people will get a chance to try F4. It’s hard to recommend a sim to someone when there is no good legal way to get ahold of it. Personally my version of F4 was the Mac one, so I’m glad I can have a “proper” version of the .exe.
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Seems lots of people disagree with me but hey what else is new…
My gripe is monetizing BMS will bring it back in focus of IP holders, thus potentially re-opening old scars.
That being said if they are doing this the proper way then it’s less of an issue.
I’m a little more hesitant before throwing flowers and balloons around while sipping my ice tea.
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Seems lots of people disagree with me but hey what else is new…
My gripe is monetizing BMS will bring it back in focus of IP holders, thus potentially re-opening old scars.
That being said if they are doing this the proper way then it’s less of an issue.
I’m a little more hesitant before throwing flowers and balloons around while sipping my ice tea.
I think in the end mods like bms can only increase sales, since they are selling the old version. If the owner then wants to work on a new version based on the original source code (very unlikely i should say) then at that point yes , probably their legal team would make BMS disappear rather quickly.
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Well, no one is discussing monetising BMS Khronik.
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There is a chain of ownership over Falcon 4. GOG is currently a licensed distributer of the entire falcon family (including Falcon4). They sell it, saying anything else, like “Falcon is free now” or any other thing is just misleading.
In short, buying falcon from GOG is just the same as buying a falcon4 CD.
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That being said if they are doing this the proper way then it’s less of an issue.
If you think they (gog) are doing something wrong, ask them instead of accuse.
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In short, buying falcon from GOG is just the same as buying a falcon4 CD.
This is the official stance of the moderator team.
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Lol like something changed. Nothing changed. Instead of ppl giving plus 20 30 usd or € to some guys at eBay or wherever they give 6usd about 5.4 euros and they can install bms.
Just a price drop
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Really great news for all. Maybe next will be longbow 2
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Lol like something changed. Nothing changed. Instead of ppl giving plus 20 30 usd or € to some guys at eBay or wherever they give 6usd about 5.4 euros and they can install bms.
Just a price drop
I think that is not a bad thing, nor quite so small a thing as you make it out to be. F4 being cheaper and more available is no bad thing for BMS users.
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Good news for the community!!!
Hopefully this will expand the BMS user base so they can DL’d our stupid POC theater……LOL!!!
As far as the legality issue, it appears that GOG has resolved that. Something I have been trying to sort out with counsel since 2009 between Microprose and Atari…KUDOS to them!!!Enjoy,
demer
Puts his $'s back in his wallet…ROTFLMAO!!! -
All future sellers just needs to beat their price…:D
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Awesome news! Like with so many GOG games I own, I’ll be buying this despite the fact that I have TWO original CDs.
And this, friends, is why I’ll never be wealthy.
Long live Falcon!
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Really great news for all. Maybe next will be longbow 2
I still have most of the Jane’s collection, LB2 on Voodoo2s in SLI them were the days.
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Well I finally own falcon 4.0, a friend gifted it to me, so soon I can fly a F-16 with my single logitech joystick, with no HOTAS or Track-IR, here is to glory!
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Have to agree with Agave_Blue….let’s not mess things up, just do the right thing
and get yourself a copy of the original F4 for the .exe -
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Hi gents,
For nostalgic reason, I’m more interested in the old Falcon 3.0 from this Collection.
While the descriptions said it works on Win XP/7 but would like to know if anyone has tried this one on, especially if it works with USB joystick.Thanks.
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Who would of known. All of the sudden ppl are coming in just cause of gog. Like the previous state and prices where holding ppl back from enjoying BMS.