To: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) From: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Reply-To: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Sender: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Errors-To: postmaster@falcon3.k9.com Return-Path: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Precedence: bulk Bcc: falcon3-outgoing Subject: Falcon3 Digest V7 : I8 Falcon3 Digest Volume 7 : Issue 8 Tue Dec 20 06:52:54 PST 1994 Compilation copyright (C) 1994 Jeff Beadles Send submissions to "falcon3@falcon3.k9.com" Send add/drop requests to "majordomo@falcon3.k9.com" Archives are available via ftp from cactus.org Today's Topics: Memory? Korhonen Tommi Subject: Memory? I also tried usingg loadhigh and enough high memory. But I didn't get the high details. I had plenty of high memory: about 90 kilos. (Scanhigh option) And conventional memory as about 619 k's. (And there was enough extended/expanded memory too) I made the file swap thingy: it works well, no jams so far, but it didn't change the details itself. What's the trick? ==== Are there manuals in Falcon Gold? I weighted the package at the local store, and it was HEAVY. I can't believe this one disk weighing that much.... This in Finland, Europe. Tommi Korhonen *** *** k138836@cc.tut.fi ** Hanen suurin virheensa ** Physics & Something *** *** ------------------------------- From: bprescot@sirius.uvic.ca (Blair Prescott) Subject: Dave Barry column on F-16 Anyone who didn't see humorist Dave Barry's column in their local paper this weekend should have another look for it. If it's in there, you will be entertained. He describes a flight he took in the back of an Air National Guard F-16, including egress training, pilot humor, tossing his cookies, etc. Very funny stuff, IMHO. Blair Prescott bprescot@Engr.UVic.CA ------------------------------- From: michaelb@tenmail.mincom.oz.au (Michael Barnes) Subject: Modem & Network Play - "Getting Coordinated" >From: David >Subject: MODEM PLAY FUNCTIONS > >Hi all! I've been playing alot of F3 over the modem. H2H has been no >problem. Campaign has been difficult to get into the air and if it does >it's difficult to get coordinated together in the air. Does anybody have >any suggestions as to how I can overcome either or both of these problems? I have been through a similar learning process not long ago, when I joined the 62nd Fighting Falcons Club here in Brisbane (Australia). We fly six-player campaign missions, and at first the "novice" players such as myself had difficulty forming up with the flight leader or our assigned wingman. One even earned himself a handle; "Lost"; for his habit of ending up nowhere near the combat zone. However, with practice we have improved. The single most usefull technique is very simple. Everyone forms up on the flight leader. The flight leader always starts on the runway, so it is easy to find him in Padlock view as soon as you start. Just follow the flight leader in Padlock, and it is easy to get into formation (just don't accidentally become a lawn dart while forming up!). In escort missions, it is also easy to form up on the escorted aircraft - they will usually be within sight when you first get into the air. For other mission types, you encounter the problem (at least in network) that only the flight leader gets control of the waypoints, and often only the flight leader gets any sensible readouts from the waypoint information. The solution we have found is to assign each player to a seperate flight during the mission planning phase. This gives each player control over their own waypoints. If you then have trouble finding the other players, you can agree to meet at a common waypoint. With seperate control over your waypoints, you can set up some great coordinated ground strikes, with each flight approaching from different directions at the same time. We use Keyboard Commander utilities to calculate waypoints and speeds for timed strike runs, print out knee-sheets for each player, and use stopwatches when we get into the air to get the timing right. Its a real buzz, and it actually does seem to help to confuse the Air Defences. The other main tool we use for finding other players when we get lost is radar; the question "who am I locking?" "Me! stop it!" often occurs. If the target is friendly, but no-one answers, then its a computer-controlled aircraft. In my opinion, 6-player campaigns is the *only* way to play Falcon, and its the primary feature which makes Falcon still the best combat flight simulator around. And with network cards so cheap now (we use A$25 8-bit Etherlink II's) its easy to do! (P.S. If anyone in Brisbane reads this, and would like to know more about the 62nd Fighting Falcons - drop me a line!) --------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Barnes Internet: michaelb@mincom.oz.au Mincom Pty Ltd Ph. +61 7 303-3148 Fax +61 7 303-3232 ------------------------------- [[ End of digest Volume 7 : Issue 8 ]]