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Subject: Falcon3 Digest V5 : I71


Falcon3 Digest Volume 5 : Issue 71
               Mon Feb 21 06:26:07 PST 1994
   Compilation copyright (C) 1994  Jeff Beadles
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 Today's Topics:
  Sound Card and Mig vs Falcon Advice  ENG_WWE@LUB001.LAMAR.EDU           
  Falcon 3.04 question                 msjav@acs.bu.edu (Mohammad Shahbaz)
  VOID_WORK                            jay.lee@msbbs.mn.org (Jay Lee)     
  .04 update to ver .0                 HIETT@caer.uky.edu                 
  Speed of sound                       Chera Bekker <Bekker@tn.utwente.nl>
  F304 patch problems                  DECvp our highest volume product <b

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From: ENG_WWE@LUB001.LAMAR.EDU
Subject: Sound Card and Mig vs Falcon Advice:)

   ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!
  I got a replacement for my 16mhz 286 laptop from the factory.  I got a 33mhz
i486DX notebook.  Restored my backup of Falcon3/OFT and wow, what a new flight
experience it is.  Next morning my new computer was dead so it is off to 
service again:(
  Well I feel better now, on to my real questions:
1)My five month old son has shown so much interest in the computer that my wife
has agreed we should get a colour monitor and a sound card for it (YES).  So  
what is out there and recomended as far as sound.  It needs to plug into the 
parallel port, have output, and run from DOS (I do not use Windows).  It also
has to support the most popular boards.  Inexpensive would be nice but I never
have that kind of luck.

2)I am (as I have said in a previous post) going to visit my brother who also
has F3/OFT.  My question now is if I buy MIG29 can I fly a MIG against him 
without his buying the MIG29 addon?  I have started flying against Veterans 
with low weapon effectivness and SAMs on Reserves.  I don't stay in the air 
long in instant action but shooting down my brother is becomeing easyer, would 
like to try the MIG on him :)

Thanks again for being there, or here, which is it?  I forget:)

Warren "No thats not sod on my canopy, why do you ask?" Eckstein
eng_wwe@lub001.lamar.edu

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From: msjav@acs.bu.edu (Mohammad Shahbaz)
Subject: Falcon 3.04 question

Hi y'all!

I'm BRAND new to this list and so far it has impressed me.
I just found out that the patch for Falcon 3.04 is/has been
around... I just wanted to know whether this patch also
includes the latest versions of the Mig 29 add-on as well.

Also, I saw other files on cactus.org described as being
hornet v 1.01 and Mig v 1.03 Should I download these as well?

Any advice will be appreciated.

Thanx,

--Shabby

PS: Anyone tried out the IHHD thing? Does it work?

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From: jay.lee@msbbs.mn.org (Jay Lee) 
Subject: VOID_WORK


        VOID_WORK, your problem with NWS damage from dropping cluster bombs too
low -- are you sure your gear is UP?

        Re: MiG-29-Bombing:     Remember, the 29th is a high-mach interceptor,
not a fighter-bomber.  The fact that the Soviets use it for A-G roles at all
indicates to me that it was a 'secondary' consideration to the aircrafts
primary mission.  It does fine with Kerry's and the unguided rockets (not that
they do much damage..)

        MiG trimming:   It's just you.  :)  I felt the same way when I started
flying it.  Use realistic mode.  If you haven't got a TM-FCS or CH-Flightstick
with a coolie hat, you have my sympathy.  I don't believe the craft can be
effectively flown without trim controls immediately at hand.  Perhaps you want
to try the tm-stick routines; it might make flight a BIT easier..

        When I first got the MiG enhancement, I wanted to land the thing on the
Soviet Carrier.  After struggling with the Hornet, I've changed my mind.  :)
It's a nice plane to land on tarmac, but I'll pass on the boat.

        I've seen photo's (and a couple of the plastic models of the Viper I've
built) show the plane to have a tail-hook.  Is this ever used?  Stuart?  If it
DOES have a functional tail-hook, I'd think it would make a FINE carrier-based
aircraft.  Sure'd be easier to jockey down, anyhoo..  (The VIRTUAL Falcon,
anyways.  :)

        Jay

p.s.    Gabe Turk -- how about passing along any 'undocumented' features that
might have found their way into Hornet (and the rest of the EBS models)?  Quite
a few have been compiled for Falcon/MiG; seems likely there's a few Easter Eggs
hiding in the Hornet.
            

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From: HIETT@caer.uky.edu
Subject: .04 update to ver .0

FYI ya'll,


well I finally did it...after storing F3 updates offline
aging like a fine wine...I finally did it and DL'd F304.zip
from onion.  This would be the one.  The readme.txt stated that
it must run from a floppy..so the files must be unzipped onto
a floppy.  From my experience this is slow and often screws up
when some "rotten" sector is encountered. SO, I used the 1.5 meg
RAM drive I always keep around.  After a clean Unzip the installation
took 2 min 51 seconds without a hitch.  I had finally updates my
ver 3.0 (original ver).

For those that haven't experienced this drastic hyper-jump let me
say that there is quite a difference between the first F3 and this
newest ver. 

-the flight model seems better
-the "look" is often better
-new sounds come out of my speakers, and they don't crash
-blacking out is much easier, cheap thrills
-crashing the plane seems easier
-and the oponents are harder to hit

now sure these points have been covered in the voluminous readme's
but here they are in real-world results...I like it fine so far
and hope I continue to, BUT

I HOPE THE GUYS AT SH ARE LISTENING....WHAT HAPPENED TO MY LOCH NESS
MONSTER AT THE STARTUP...if I can't figure a way to get back Nessie
then I'm going back to ver 3.0.  I mean heck we gotta have priorities
and I actually paid for that monster a long time ago!!!!!


check toes !

-=john "Sirpo" hiett=-

hiett@caer.uky.edu
CI$:72724,204
INN:89726

visualize lawns that don't grow

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From: Chera Bekker <Bekker@tn.utwente.nl>
Subject: Speed of sound

[ This is starting to get close to off-topic...  -Jeff ]

David Masten wrote:

> Cherra wrote:

My name is Chera, but o.k. :)

> Whoa, hold on a sec!

> Time for a little gas dynamics refresher course!

> For an ideal gas, the speed of sound is given by: 

> 		a = (gamma*R*T)^0.5

> where gamma is the ratio of specific heats (1.4 for a diatomic, 1.67 for
> a monatomic gas), R is the universal gas constant divided by the molecular
> weight and T is temperature.  Density is NOT a factor, strange as it may
> seem.  

Ahem, David is absolutely right for an *ideal* gas.

Considering however the fact that for a *real* gas like N2 the gamma varies 
(slowly) with the pressure P (in GPascal) as:

	Gamma = 1.4006 + 21.8*P  (Heat and Thermodynamics, Zemansky & Dittman
					page 117)

and that P is a measure for the density, there consequently is a dependency on 
the density. I don't want to get to into nit-picking (sp?) about how well the 
atmosphere is described by an ideal gas. I guess if it is used by the engineers
working in the field it is good enough <g>, especially above 36.000 ft.

I must confess that when I wrote my original post I had the speed of sound in
liquid water (1552 - 1180 m/s) compared to speed of sound in steam (490 m/s).
This is ofcourse not a good example because there is a phase transition 
involved.

Enough said.

	Chera 'Napalm' Bekker

H.G. Bekker                (bekker@tn.utwente.nl)             Voice: +3153893107
ELTN 5214 (Applied Physics)                                   Fax:   +3153354003
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From: DECvp our highest volume product <bottom_david@dneast.enet.dec.com>
Subject: F304 patch problems

On my system the patch update fails with the error "can't find sector".
I ran scandisk and it foudn no errors, I deltree'd falcon3 and reinstalled,
same problem. The mig103 patch installed fine (love the g limiter!) and falcon 
runs but the patch refuses to install. I haven't tried a manual patch yet. I am 
ftp'ing a new copy of the patch as we speak.

Anyone else have this problem?

thanks

dave

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