Falcon 4 History Chart
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Hi there,
[For those of you that haven’t seen this document yet]
Wondering where are all those BMS, openFalcon and FreeFalcon groups coming from? Vaguely heard about SuperPak and ViperOps? Don’t have a clue about what iBeta and eRazor are?
Here’s the Falcon 4 evolution story, in a graphical timeline:
http://sites.google.com/site/falcon4historyLet me know if I missed something or if you have any suggestion
Edit: See also The Falcon Epopee
Regards,
Spyhawk
Note: This document is released under a copyleft license (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0), so anyone is free to grab it and improve it as long as it is released under the same license. The source file (under the same license) is also on the website.
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I have just finished reading the Superpak manuals and was wondering what happened to that group. Did they join FreeFalcon or did they become part of OpenFalcon or BMS or are they being held in Cuba for disclosing secrets of the Viper?
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Great chart! I love the 3-4 weeks reference at the end. :lol:
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Great chart! I love the 3-4 weeks reference at the end. :lol:
Haha yeah I was just about to post that!
Harry (Formerly Amraam at Frugals etc.)
(I'm not currently active with ViperDrivers, but these guys are the best BMS school out there!)
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I have just finished reading the Superpak manuals and was wondering what happened to that group. Did they join FreeFalcon or did they become part of OpenFalcon or BMS or are they being held in Cuba for disclosing secrets of the Viper?
The F4UT splitted into ViperOps, FreeFalcon and OpenFalcon. Some rumours said that former LP members are still detained in Guantanamo
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Crikey - that’s pretty conclusive - had no idea about the skunkworks mod either.
One thing I noticed - the 1987 Falcon went with the 2 missions disks - had all 3 back in the day.
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awww man, memories…
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I have just finished reading the Superpak manuals and was wondering what happened to that group. Did they join FreeFalcon or did they become part of OpenFalcon or BMS or are they being held in Cuba for disclosing secrets of the Viper?
The data team from SP4.2 joined BMS. BMS=OF initially.
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OpenFalcon was a separate team made up of only 2 former F4UT data devs. We started OF just to port SP4.2 to use the BMS exe. We had nothing to do with BMS other than collaborating closely with them. Eventually both teams merged after the leak of OF and flew under the BMS banner.
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Whatever it is, Falcon 4 lives on… and on… and on…
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OpenFalcon was a separate team made up of only 2 former F4UT data devs.
I’m wondering what happened to all other F4UT data members. Did they all leave? (I also remember that you were one of the 2 former data dev
).MigBuster> Yeah, Falcon and Falcon AT were pretty much the same software (AT had just enhanced gfx). Both had 2 extensions, called “Mission Disks 1&2” for Falcon and “Operation CounterStrike/FireFight” for AT.
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cool pdf, and I love the FUTURE, 3 OR 4 WEEKS, great!!!
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I’m wondering what happened to all other F4UT data members. Did they all leave? (I also remember that you were one of the 2 former data dev
).MigBuster> Yeah, Falcon and Falcon AT were pretty much the same software (AT had just enhanced gfx). Both had 2 extensions, called “Mission Disks 1&2” for Falcon and “Operation CounterStrike/FireFight” for AT.
What happened is F4UT (SP1-SP3) started with large fan-base (coders, testers ,devs ,players ) this transfered to SP4 but with lose of many coders as it used same SP3.exe ,Then many other dev left cause to much time was passing on a release . SP4 while had a lot of data added also was delayed for various reasons . In the end of SP4 life there was only handful of dev left .
Honestly it almost didn’t get out the door without major bugs . -
I have just finished reading the Superpak manuals and was wondering what happened to that group. Did they join FreeFalcon or did they become part of OpenFalcon or BMS or are they being held in Cuba for disclosing secrets of the Viper?
Yes, the SP3 was nice piece of work
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not in falcon that early, but always under same impression too -
I can remember erazor 109 i think it was, good time
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Updated for BMS 4.32 up 2 and FF6.
Enjoy!
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Nice to see Skunk got a mention
……Shad
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Updated for BMS 4.32 up 2 and FF6.
Enjoy!
This should be stickied, IMO… it’s our history.
As it should have been in GlobalFalcon. -
I’m missing the Macintosh line! I come form there
IIRC it stopt with 106 for mac, so we waitn and waitn 3-4 falcon weeks for 107 ….
and i read more about 107, e-falcon, and all the stuff on the PC side.And XIS’800 pit’s, it crashed the mac version. but why? I found it out: i had 2 callbackslots in the pit.dat to delete that the mac version doesn’t know. After texture edit, more in…
old link: http://www.escuadron69.net/v20/images/redactores/falconhistory_timeline.pdf
