Falcon3 Digest Volume 1 : Issue 6 Thu Oct 15 19:35:18 PDT 1992 Send submissions to "falcon3@onion.rain.com" Send add/drop requests to "listserv@onion.rain.com" For an index of back articles that are available, send a message containing the line "send index from falcon3" to "netlib@onion.rain.com" Also, the archives are available via ftp from onion.rain.com [147.28.0.161] Today's Topics: Re: Detailed Planes opus@ihlpy.att.com patch file jimh2@CFSMO.Honeywell.COM (Jim Hieb Re: your mail Gary Kuyat(H436)null Fighting Tiger Problems Greg `TwoTone' Spiegelberg From: edwardsc@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Christopher Edwards) > >I've been watching this discussion about ways to et more detailed planes. >I've got about 618k free and I tried copying sobjects to objects or >whatever, but nothing at all changed. You must copy objects onto sobjects. As someone else said, this will stomp over some other memory, so is probably not such a good idea. >However I decided to change the detail level from 'medium' which is the >recommended for my machine , to 'high' and *presto!* all of the >enemy aircraft were detailed (engines, blue canopies, refueling probe >on A4, etc). Now, is it really this easy? Has everyone out there tried >just changing the detail level? I've never tried changing the detail level, but then I've always had it on the highest setting to begin with. Someone on the net said none of the methods would work unless you had a high level of detail set. >By the way, I changed the objects and sobject files back to the originals >so they are not the cause.. I just though it was wierd that a simple >menu choice could give me what people seemed to be going to so much >trouble to get.. Look at the sizes of the file and make sure sobjects is a lot smaller than objects. I'd be surprised if you didn't still have two copies of objects. If you don't, then I have no explanation! >Chris Rob opus@ihlpy.att.com ------------------------------- From: jimh2@CFSMO.Honeywell.COM (Jim Hiebert #2) Subject: patch file > From falcon3@onion.rain.com Thu Oct 15 09:43 CDT 1992 > I have uploaded the file oftpt1.arj to the pub/falcon3/incoming > directory of onion.rain.com. The file contains the patch to update Falcon > 3.01 (OFT) to 3.01.1. > [ It's been moved to ~ftp/pub/falcon3/programs/oftpt1.arj -- Jeff ] Ok, what's a ".arj" file? And, more importantly, how does one explode this type of file? __________________________________________________________ Jim Hiebert - jimh2@cfsmo.honeywell.com Honeywell Commercial Flight Systems/Minneapolis Operations - - - - - "It's hard to work in a group when your omnipotent" -- Q ------------------------------- From: Gary Kuyat(H436)null Subject: Re: your mail The file f3_kbovl.zip contains a keyboard overlay for falcon 3.1 in two parts. Both parts are included in Postscript and CorelDRAW! 3.0 format. The file is in /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS as of Oct 15, 1992. I checked it... If you want this and cannot FTP I will uuencode and mail it to anybody who sends me mail at: gsk@sagan.bellcore.com -Gary ------------------------------- From: Eric Johnson Subject: Falcon 3.01.01 Last night I downloaded a new patch from Compuserve (In the spectrum holobyte library of the game publishers forum). It changed my Falcon 3.01 to 3.01.01. I'll try to summarize the readme file that came with it tomorrow (forgot to bring it to work today). I don't have FTP access, only mail, so someone else will have to upload the patch to the net. There were a number of small fixes, including B-52's and C-130's no longer crashing upon landing, and additional plane types (including UMF) allowed in Red-Flag. Also, there are no more missions in the Kurile Islands where you are required to break the ROE to complete your mission. One thing that caused me some problems when installing the patch was that my falcon3.exe file had been modified by f3maps, and the patch install program did not like that at all. I had to go into f3maps and reset everything to the "default" values for the apply of the patch to work. Eric Johnson rchland(ericj), ericj@rchland.vnet.ibm.com Open Interfaces, 535/025-3 Phone (507) 253-5046, Tie-Line 553-5046 IBM Rochester, Hwy 52 & 37th St NW, Rochester, MN 55901 ------------------------------- From: "Carl Fago" Subject: Would it be possible from some kind soul to convert the ARJed OFT patch to zip or zoo??? *-=Carl=-* INTERNET - cdf1@psuvm.psu.edu | Be wary of strong drink. | DELPHI - WULFGAR GEnie - C.FAGO1| It can make you shoot at tax | Carl Fago State College, PA | collectors -- and miss! | ------------------------------- From: Greg `TwoTone' Spiegelberg Subject: Fighting Tiger Problems I've kept up with the Falcon patches and none of them have locked up my machine yet. BUT! (there's always a but) when I installed the Fighting Tiger it does the following thusfar... 1- After commiting a new squadron I try to change my pilot information and the screen goes black & grey and locks the machine up 2- After commiting the new squadron a 2nd time everything is fine until I try to Abort, End, or Return to DOS via the File menu when I'm in the plane; again it's the black screen with grey garbage 3- After doing #2 I go to view the end of mission stats & maps and it locks up again giving me the black screen and same grey garbage Anyone else having problems? Just for the record, I have 33MHz 386 w/ 4M RAM, plenty of HD space, Sound Blaster v2.0 (I think) and I am using QEMM 386 v6.0(1?) and Stacker V2.0. -Greg "TwoTone" Spiegelberg ------------------------------- From: oecheruo@mailbox.syr.edu (Okechukwu Chima Echeruo) Subject: Spectrum Holobyte: listen hi, It is such a pain to have to delete *all* you squadrons and missions after each of 4 patches to the original Falcon 3.0A Surely there must be a way to convert older squadron/mission data (esp. squadrons) to the new formats. This can be done by SH writing a convert utility that reads 3.0{A-f} squadrons and then writes out 3.01{.1} files. or perhaps some kind, wizard can decode the data formats and write a PD convert (in the tradition of FALCNR AND F3MAPS) . thanks. Chima "Bandit!" Echeruo ------------------------------- [[ End of digest Volume 1 : Issue 6 ]]