Falcon 4.0 20th anniversary!
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Bought my copy on Dec 11, 1998 and have been flying steady since!
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Flying from the release. I’ve come in and out over the years but I always come back to falcon. Every time I fire the sim up, I’m so grateful to the community and BMS team for making the sim so awesome.
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Landing in Korea on November 21, 2003 in SP3+FF2 installation. Panther’s Skyfix was one of the hottest community mods by the time, and it is applied here too. Note the haze foregrounding the distant mountains. Dee-Jay, please forgive me the screamingly-colored red HUD.
Nice to see the correct phase of the moon in relation to the sun again, I know that used to be correct in almost all previous versions. ICP shadows show the sun high in the sky to the right and the moon showing a thin cresent orientated toward the sun. Unfortunately that is one thing that has actually gone backward in development with BMs. The stars no longer appear to be accurate and the phases of the moon are way out of whack. Seeing a full moon rise beside the sun in the morning is a most unearthly and definitely unrealistic sight.
Still the best sim around though, I have been flying it since the days of Chopstick Louie and it has always been the main reason for upgrading my computer.
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20 years old… and still kicking thanks to the BMS team !!
It would have been great if Jane’s F-15 code would have leaked too, and people continued to update it, like what happened with F4
I always thought the same about Janes F-15
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Abducted into Falcondom on June 23, 2000. Quickly found the Delphi Forums and the 1.08 patch.
Delphi Forums! OMG, that was before I had internet and had to go to the university library to read Delphi forums and download patches on floppy disks. Man!
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Nice to see the correct phase of the moon in relation to the sun again, I know that used to be correct in almost all previous versions. ICP shadows show the sun high in the sky to the right and the moon showing a thin cresent orientated toward the sun. Unfortunately that is one thing that has actually gone backward in development with BMs. The stars no longer appear to be accurate and the phases of the moon are way out of whack. Seeing a full moon rise beside the sun in the morning is a most unearthly and definitely unrealistic sight.
Still the best sim around though, I have been flying it since the days of Chopstick Louie and it has always been the main reason for upgrading my computer.
“ICP Shadows”? There was no cockpit shading until BMS 4.3x I don’t think?
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“ICP Shadows”? There was no cockpit shading until BMS 4.3x I don’t think?
It was a 2D pit, which implies that the shadows are not dynamic…
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It was a 2D pit, which implies that the shadows are not dynamic…
Exactly, so I’m not sure how exactly one can gauge the Sun’s position using cockpit shadows…
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Is it possible to merge the two 20th anniversary thread?
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?34710-FALCON-4-0-20-years-!!!-(news-paper-articule) -
I remember it well. It was just around the same time that I joined the staff at Frugal’s. At the time we were more about XCom. We branched out in to flight sims. MiG Alley had a good following there. We had a European Air War forum. When Falcon was released we started a forum for this sim too. And we all know what happened after that. While other forums stayed popular, Frug’s became the go-to place on the web for Falcon in my opinion. It wasn’t the only place, but for me the best.
For the really old timers…… this is what Frugals looked like before we switched to the UBB board. It used the infamous Comet Cursor. Remember that? Threads were the cascading type. Was so happy to go to Ultimate.
http://simhq.com/forum/files/usergals/2017/01/full-6351-131700-frug.jpg
Frugs is gone, sadly. Had word from Mark a couple months back and he is doing well. He is engaged and writing his second book. The website can still be seen on the Wayback Machine, but most threads cannot be drilled down, just snapshots to remind of how it was.
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Exactly, so I’m not sure how exactly one can gauge the Sun’s position using cockpit shadows…
Not difficult at all, look at the AA and AG buttons… shadows clearly show sun position above, slightly behind and to the right. Simple geometry. If it is a 2d pit then the shadows are fixed then meaningless… but if it is 3d then I don’t think so.
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Long live Falcon 4.0
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Great video ! You really did an amazing job redoing that classic intro.
Only little modification I would have suggested is writing “Falcon 4.0” instead of “Falcon 4” -
Great video ! You really did an amazing job redoing that classic intro.
Only little modification I would have suggested is writing “Falcon 4.0” instead of “Falcon 4”OMG, I did it wrong the text. I rarely see the F4.0 or Falcon 4.0
Maybe I make again and reupload. -
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Or could he put in the end 4.34 or something
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Or could he put in the end 4.34 or something
As intro of 4.34? Won’t be intro of BMS4 the video. Or you suggesting change the Falcon 4 –-> BMS 4.34 in the video?
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Not difficult at all, look at the AA and AG buttons… shadows clearly show sun position above, slightly behind and to the right. Simple geometry. If it is a 2d pit then the shadows are fixed then meaningless… but if it is 3d then I don’t think so.
The images showed the 2D cockpit indeed. It was the standard in the late 90’s and in the beginning of 2000’s. However, Falcon 4.0 has had a 3D cockpit since the beginning. It was very rough with just a texture over the rough 3D cockpit model. HUD, DED and some of the gauges of the right instrument stack worked though. Furthermore, the 3D cockpit at that time was not clickable, and thus the aircraft was mostly operated through the 2D cockpit. Simply put, it was nowhere near to what we have today. An example image showing the 3D pit of SuperPAK 4, taken on August 2, 2004 (the original 3D cockpit was very similar to the one depicted below):
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My time is Dec. 12 already… XD
Celebrating our days with Falcon 4.0 till the end of this week we will.
and Molnigalage, MEGA works!