Falcon game does not work

[rednova]

Hi:

I just bought an original boxed game for amiga, Falcon.
Is by spectrum holobyte.
The title screen loads, but after that, the screen goes blank (full black color)
and it never loads anymore.
Many amiga games I have work fine..but I think there is nothing wrong
with the game, I think falcon does not work because there is something
wrong with my amiga. I have amiga 2000 + 68000 + 2 meg ram
Maybe the game is defective, but I believe something else is the culprit.
Any ideas ?

[Pentad]

Hi:

I just bought an original boxed game for amiga, Falcon.
Is by spectrum holobyte.

I don't have an answer for you but I remember back when this was new it was a pain in the butt to get working because of the copy protection. It was real touchy with the drive alignment. If you were even slightly off it wouldn't work. I recall .info magazine talking about this and legit customers using cracked copies because they were more reliable.

Maybe try a cracked copy to see if that loads ok?

I wish you the best of luck though!  :-)

-P

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I get that the appeal for you is to play these games off the original floppy disks, but (assuming you have a hard drive) you could always try this:

http://whdload.de/games/Falcon.html

[slaapliedje]

That's me, I long ago gave up on trying to sort through piles of floppy drives, and would rather go with hard drive installed games, or like on other platforms, some sort of floppy drive emulation.

Definitely don't have nostalgia for the floppy changing!  Or the random time when you decide to load up a game, and the damn disk won't read...

[Pat the Cat]

Hi:

I just bought an original boxed game for amiga, Falcon.
Is by spectrum holobyte.

Assuming you got it working, it's a VERY difficult sim on a standard Amiga.
 
 A faster processor is recommended to make the screen updates smoother and get some controlability - laggy.
 
 Mind you, in terms of being "true" it does do a pretty good job. It's not shabby code, it's pretty good code trying to do an involved job with just a standard 68K Amiga...
 
 ... and yes, it prefers NTSC (slightly less lag on movements generating flight differences).
 
 It was released as a budget title, but you don't get the manual with that release, and quite frankly completing a mission, let alone a full campaign,  without a manual is pretty much impossible unless you are very familiar with the real aircraft.
 
 Even landing without busting your landing gear is tricky... At least, I found it so. Miles and miles harder than Interceptor, but not quite as "propeller head" as Tornado.