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That was a nice trip down memory lane... I had to save for a whole year to get my Amiga 500, I bought it for 1 reason and one reason only - Falcon. I loved tha

by nekopa 11y ago

That was a nice trip down memory lane... I had to save for a whole year to get my Amiga 500, I bought it for 1 reason and one reason only - Falcon. I loved that game, and soon got into Stealth Fighter F-19. I still have fond memories of me and my best friend playing F-19 together - one pilot, one navigator. I swear to god, mission planning was more fun than actually flying the mission. I kind of miss the days when you needed a keyboard overlay to play a game, ( http://oagd.net/file/8358c6a052c1734431c0f16cb4fa8efd41daf37d/Keyboard_overlay.png http://oagd.net/file/8358c6a052c1734431c0f16cb4fa8efd41daf37... )- and the later Falcon games had one of the biggest manuals I've ever seen. Makes me think I should take a look at the current state of combat flight sims. Any good recommendations that would work on a linux system? (it's a decent laptop, 16GB RAM and Nvidia card with 2GB)

doener 11y ago
Have you tried http://tnlgame.net/ http://tnlgame.net/ and/or http://www.heptargon.de/gl-117/gl-117.html http://www.heptargon.de/gl-117/gl-117.html ? This is looks interesting, too: http://www.lgdb.org/game/arma-3 http://www.lgdb.org/game/arma-3
ekianjo 11y ago
Falcon was indeed awesome. I remember taking the manual to bed with me since it was such a great read.
zokier 11y ago
This might not be the answer you like, but for "serious" fighter jet simulators there is pretty much two options, both of them Windows only. There is still a community around Falcon 4.0 keeping it on life-support. But I wouldn't really recommend it as a starting point, considering the significant effort it takes just to get it up and running. The other alternative, more modern and my recommendation, is DCS family. It consits of (gratis) core DCS "World" engine, and a selection of (paid) add-on modules (=planes etc). The nice thing about it is that you can just download DCS: World to try it out, it includes two planes you can fly. The not so nice aspect is that it is quite heavy, both in terms of hardware requirements and in terms of gameplay/learning curve. Its very much jumping to the deep end.
FireBeyond 11y ago
Even before that, F/A-18 Interceptor!
- manicminer 11y ago
  Loved that game. Flying under the Golden Gate bridge! F-19 was great as well.

by nekopa 11y ago

doener 11y ago

Have you tried http://tnlgame.net/ http://tnlgame.net/ and/or http://www.heptargon.de/gl-117/gl-117.html http://www.heptargon.de/gl-117/gl-117.html ? This is looks interesting, too: http://www.lgdb.org/game/arma-3 http://www.lgdb.org/game/arma-3

ekianjo 11y ago

Falcon was indeed awesome. I remember taking the manual to bed with me since it was such a great read.

zokier 11y ago

This might not be the answer you like, but for "serious" fighter jet simulators there is pretty much two options, both of them Windows only. There is still a community around Falcon 4.0 keeping it on life-support. But I wouldn't really recommend it as a starting point, considering the significant effort it takes just to get it up and running. The other alternative, more modern and my recommendation, is DCS family. It consits of (gratis) core DCS "World" engine, and a selection of (paid) add-on modules (=planes etc). The nice thing about it is that you can just download DCS: World to try it out, it includes two planes you can fly. The not so nice aspect is that it is quite heavy, both in terms of hardware requirements and in terms of gameplay/learning curve. Its very much jumping to the deep end.

FireBeyond 11y ago

Even before that, F/A-18 Interceptor!

manicminer 11y ago
Loved that game. Flying under the Golden Gate bridge! F-19 was great as well.