Original Falcon 4.0 now available via GOG.com
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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
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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.
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That’s usually how it starts out
I was flying like that for years, but it gets frustrating after a while. One by one I got the Hotas Cougar, then later TrackIR5 and finally Simped rudder pedals. It becomes an expensive hobby but the enjoyment is multiplied tenfold as the frustrations with controls and situational awareness goes away.
Before you know it, bitten by the cockpit bug…!!
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Guys, GoG has a long history of bringing old games to us. Maybe this is all new to you guys, but if you get outside of the Falcon mindset, GoG has been distributing a lot of games that many of us older gamers have longed for; eg. B-17 II, D&D Gold box, and many, many others. GoG’s “thing” is to take old games and make them compatible with modern systems. Further, they usually get the rights to these old games. There is a lot of writing about this if you choose to look for it.
With respect to Falcon, I simply am not seeing what has anyone…anyone…upset about this. This is pure win for BMS and us, as combat flight simmers. This is why I seem, no I AM, incredulous. Do you all want to see flight sims fail or succeed?
GoG has a long pedigree of bringing old software up to date and then offering a working version for purchase to the public. It’s too bad that this is the first many of you have seen of this company.
Regardless, this release is pure win for BMS and Falcon, and for anyone who wants to further intersest in flight simulation and especially Falcon. So why, WHY, would you want to poke holes? Why isn’t the first reaction, “YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!111!!!” instead of, “Did GoG get the rights, is this all legal, can those guys download BMS or do we have to check their install to ensure it is a pure CD install?”
I’m not someone who argues just to argue. But this confuses me to no end. I’ve got about 20 GoG games and then this popped up, and my first thought was, “Whew, I can finally get a digital backup to my CD” and then I read all the BS on these forums and it sickens me. Yes, many of you sicken me. What a bummer.
Man alive, we’re playing a video game here, and most of you with no stake in the game would rather put stakes in it to kill it than to see it thrive. I’ve never seen a community more willing to eat its own, and I can’t even understand the “WHY”.
This absolutely this. This is a victory for simmers. Not having the falcon 4.0 disc after it was lost in a move…. Yes I know stupid me but now it opens people to come back to the viper. And experience BMS. I am ecstatic. Also shameless plug B17 is fantastic
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Really great news for all. Maybe next will be longbow 2
It would be great, I never had chance to try any helo sim from '90s except Hind.
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It would be great, I never had chance to try any helo sim from '90s except Hind.
Oh I wish that was also one i always wanted
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You know, I think the OP has probably got one of the better Thanks-to-Post ratios on the BMS forums at this point!
XD
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Is this mod compatible with OS X natively? The GOG version seems to just have Falcon 3.0 in dosbox so I was hoping I can use this mod on OSX as I can download the 4.0 exe file.
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New gog-user here :).
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.
It was holding back, at least me; the need to find a CD copy on right side of Atlantic (or pay double for shipping), the much higher price, the need to buy a version of CD that will work with BMS (without prior knowledge of Falcon 4.0 versions, except that at least one, Allied Force, is not-compatibile), no guarantee that it all won’t fail due to some small stupid error (shipping, buying wrong CD, having not read enough FAQs to notice it still won’t work for me because of some obscure exception) - all this made getting BMS to work to bothersome and to risky to try for complete newcomer. I found out about mods existence more than year ago, checked availability of CDs shipping to where I live, left it for later and went back to what I was flying. As far as I was concerned, BMS was best suited for old F4 fans who were already motivated to fly it and knew their way around; less so for people like me, coming from other sims and wanting to check it out in relative safety.
Gog releasing it changed everything - reliable delivery system, affordable price, people from your community present on gog forums from day one to let me know this version will work with BMS S! made me buy it in hours from release. No more excuses not to try it.