FALCON 4.0 HISTORY - THE MUSEUM
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@tiag That’s good. I’ll pass on your greetings.
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@qawa said in FALCON 4.0 HISTORY - THE MUSEUM:
How much time
It is a shocking thing to me that the F4.0 + its legacy now means a longer time period than from my birth to be and adult then since until today…
I was able to acquire the SP3 or SP4 around late 2003 or early 2004.
(18 years vs 19 years)
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@molnibalage …Look this Molni… I still have all in my HD
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2007, REDVIPER introduces ‘6DOF’. 6DOF was an important step along the road to VR.
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@Fish44 said in FALCON 4.0 HISTORY - THE MUSEUM:
2007, REDVIPER introduces ‘6DOF’ an important step along the road to VR in 2022.
Not at all
Red viper is not BMS branch and BMS had 6dofs far before red viper
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@Mav-jp said in FALCON 4.0 HISTORY - THE MUSEUM:
This thread is dedicated to Falcon 4.0 history (and before BMS 4.32 era).
Ah i thought they were related on the road map of falcon BMS. my bad.
I don’t remember anything else out there at the time with 6DOF, except MSFS2004? (or the tweet add on to it). But it’s recollection, so could be wrong. Was the BMS version you refer to widely available? I remember two branches, FF and OF.
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@Fish44 said in FALCON 4.0 HISTORY - THE MUSEUM:
@Mav-jp said in FALCON 4.0 HISTORY - THE MUSEUM:
This thread is dedicated to Falcon 4.0 history (and before BMS 4.32 era).
Ah i thought they were related on the road map of falcon BMS. my bad.
I don’t remember anything else out there at the time with 6DOF, except MSFS2004? (or the tweet add on to it). But it’s recollection, so could be wrong. Was the BMS version you refer to widely available? I remember two branches, FF and OF.
Yes and Open Falcon was the direct precursor to Falcon BMS, had 6DOF already in 2006(?) or so.
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@Scorpion82
Alied Force had 6 DOF … 1st -
MICROPROSE News! FALCON 4.0 SERIES IS BACK! 2023
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What Made Falcon 3.0 Great?
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Falcon - Amiga
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YES - this is VANILLA falcon 4.0 upscaled using Glide!
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Does anyone have SuperPak 1 or 2? Reason I’m asking, at some point from SP3++ the patches dropped Glide support, but Glide really is the best way to experience old Falcon.
Edit: unfortunately it seems that eFalcon removed Glide support, so Realism Patch 5 is the last to support it. Shame.
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If I may take a moment to pass on some mournful news: Jeff “Rhino” Babineau, the founder of the 209th Virtual Fighter Squadron, “The Delta Hawks” has died from a long illness.
He may not be familiar to most, but he is a distinct part of Falcon History. Since 1994, Jeff with the help of like-minded friends gathered once a month for LAN parties to test fly a little known flight sim known as Falcon 3.0. Their only desire was a “longing for missions where the wingmen actually had skill”. As I understand the story, this evolved to Spectrum Holobyte bringing them on as full fledge Beta Testers. They grew in size, status and technology being the first to use online communications by means of a Shoutcast server. And thanks to co-founder Dan “Crash” Crenshaw, gave us “How to Live and Die in the Virtual Sky”.
For those who do remember Rhino, you know of the wild accounts in the basement of his Stockton, CA home known to all as The Bunker. Catch a glimpse of what that was like in my previous Youtube post above. https://forum.falcon-bms.com/post/367152
In RL, Jeff attained the rank of Captain and served with distinction as a tank commander in the Army National Guard.
He is noted in the exit screen credits, along with other members of The Delta Hawks gang and memorialized among the photos in our Logbook as graphic M_W_3_18.
I don’t know that he had much family outside of his Falcon family, so a simple request from the remaining Delta Hawks is, during any future Falcon LAN party, please honor Rhino’s memory with a pint.
A few of the remaining Delta Hawks. On the left: Maestro & Tango. On the right Godwerb. And in a Zoom call was Shockwave.Cheers,
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Clear Skies and Tailwinds to Rhino
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There are no limits in the sky.
Fly where the sun shines bright and the clouds are beautiful.
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The 209th was AWESOME back in the day.
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an old interview to Eric “Aeyes” de best
http://www.simhq.com/_air6/air_200a.html
some of His works: