The Falcon Epopee - The history of Falcon 4
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Excellent! Thank you.
Good read, very informative and puts some pieces of the puzzle together, I have wondered about quite a few times, since I’ve entered the Falcon arena. Korea, that is, I s’pose… ? !
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I really think our success has been for 2 reasons: 1) We have a REALLY great coding team. 2) Our EULA is awesome. The whole team was involved in writing it, and if you are a modder I believe it is designed to work for you, and not against you.
+1 for the EULA. For me, that’s the “feature” of BMS I like the most, because it constrains Falcon 4 to an even brighter future.
One last side note: Our management style is practically non existent. For some of you bean counters (me included as one of them), this might surprise you. The only down side we’ve really experienced is relatively slow releases. We are well aware of the issue, but honestly, I don’t think many folks care. We’re happy to just do what we do, and release when it all “feels right”.
Looks like some open source project management. And always released in 3-4 we… when it is ready.
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+1 on the BMS EULA. It encourages innovation from interested modders. Also, the EULA encourages inexperienced users to actually to mod something. Rather than have them sitting around and complaining that next release isn’t here yet. I’ll admit it, I fall into second column.
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I really think our success has been for 2 reasons: 1) We have a REALLY great coding team. 2) Our EULA is awesome.
You forgot a couple…
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We have an awesome data team
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We have many great beta testers that spent hours and hours and hours and hours doing repetitive testing that ensured both the data and code was quality stuff.
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What’s the software language used to compile the flacon 4.0 and the BMS ?
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Mostly but not entirely c++ to be strictly accurate.
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Is there a place online where Frugals got archived? Sort of an internet archive someplace?
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it’s interesting how time passes so quickly
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This document has (finally!) been updated with the last events. Enjoy
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There is a Hungarian blog about computer games, the iddqd.blog.hu. It is interested to release a post about Falcon 4.0 which I plan to write. Do you have any source and interesting story which is worth to post about history of Falcon besides the THE FALCON EPOPEE and the interview with Gilman Louie? Of course I remember many thing but more sources is simply better.
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Beside the history charts, the FalconEpopee has been slightly updated! Not much for the seasoned pilots that already know this document, but new players might enjoy it.
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What is BMS EULA?
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With some delay, the doc has been adjusted for taking the past year into account.
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With some delay, the doc has been adjusted for taking the past year into account.
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@ Spyhawk! Time for an update?
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The chart has been updated. The F4Epopee article itself hasn’t been touched since 2017, so I’d probably need to extend it a bit to take 4.34 into account.
However, not much has really changed. Gone are the days of multiple groups competing with different version, BMS won for the good of almost everyone - apart from anyone that wanted to read more about community drama -
Thank you for continuing to update these fantastic works. You chisel the Falcon history into marble for all newcomers and those long in the F4 tooth to marvel at. Giving credence and understanding to those that wonder why we are so damn particular about our beloved sim.
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