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Anyway it woun't be any better than the CD32/A1200 version anyway I did see a Falcon for sale on Ebay a while back ............. For $500 and that was at the start of the auction:eek Moved to General discussion, nothing really to do with the Amiga Scene Marz Last edited by Ian; 18 October 2001 at 19:03. |
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Well, at least there is a Projekt for a Falcon-Emu : http://sourceforge.net/projects/falconpowder/
But I doubt it´s real |
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Oh, sorry for not reading your post properly, but I doubt it's better than the A500 version of PD @ Retroman It did have an accelerator fitted and the seller was making a really big deal out of it, maybe it was rare Last edited by Ian; 18 October 2001 at 19:26. |
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It's been started by the same guy that wrote STonX the Atari St emulator |
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JACKPOT!
Hopefully he'll bring the full hardware sound emulation from that top ST emu into this one too. |
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Since I never seen a Falcon in action, I would really like to see that Emu being released and one thing is for sure, if it´s good, I will buy a real Falcon
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there's another one on sourceforge. a VM really...
http://aranym.sourceforge.net/ but i guess it must be known by now... |
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Am I the only one here that actually owns a Falcon?
I've played the game in question. It's identical to the Amiga-version. There aren't that many Falcon-specific games. The machine never took off, as Atari had economic problems at the time, and they were focusing on the Jaguar instead. Anyway, the Falcon is a nice machine. Loads more powerful than an A1200. Faster processor, better and faster graphics, much better sound, and a built-in SCSI port at the back. But it is much harder to upgrade than an A1200. Most accelerators require that you solder wires to various spots on the motherboard. Also, the Falcon has almost no compatibility with the ST when it comes to games. Very few work at all. |
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Would love to own a Falcon, v expensive tho.
Id like to debate the whole issue of better sound and gfx than the A1200 tho Puzzle. And even the CPU wasnt that far ahead. And it had only 1MB Ram... |
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I wouldnt mind on either, but not at what they currently go for on ebay; especially since there are few games for it.
It would be smarter for me to get a STE to replace my STf since I can jam more memory into it cheaply and its in stereo. |
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However, there are very few games and demos that take advantage of it. But some applications do. The graphics on the Falcon is a bit faster than the A1200. This is very noticeable in screenmodes with 256-colours. And the Falcon has true CD-quality sound (16 bit, 44KHz), unlike the A1200. And it has SCSI built in. However, the blitter on the Falcon is not as good as on the A1200. And GEM (compared to Workbench)... well, yuck. The CPU on the Falcon is not much faster than the one in the A1200. But the difference was quite large back in 1992. Also, I think the Falcon came with 4MB RAM in it's default configuration. Mine has 14MB, by the way. |
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Nothing right now. It's stored at my parents' place. I don't have room for it right now.
It's a nice setup. It has an accelerator that overclocks the 030, an FDI, CD-ROM, and two almost dead SCSI-drives. Plus an internal 120MB IDE-drive. |
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I read the Falcon came with 1 Mb as default, at least back in 1992. But hey, I think it was a neat machine back then. It had all the things I wanted Commodore to put in the A1200. 16-bit sound, high-density floppy drive, and RAM expansion on the mainboard.
I've always wanted one of my own to mess around with, too bad they're hard to come by. Found a solitary one on Ebay the other day, but they were asking too much. |
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i wonder if there any copy of Ishar 3 around for Falcon and if so and you have tryied it, if it's better or differente for the AGA version.
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