Tell me how long you've been flying Spectrum Holobyte's "Falcon 3.0" without telling me how long you've been flying Spectrum Holobyte's "Falcon 3.0" 😁 P.S. This was installed in my old 80286 way back in the day, I just stumbled upon the old installation booklet 😊
If I remember correctly Falcon 3.0 also didn't require a FPU. But it run much faster with it.
I used to run it on my 286-16 and later added an AMD FPU.
@rfnagel: it's an interesting 286 board. Did you replace the CPU with 20MHz one? As there is no 40MHz crystal installed it still runs at ~16MHz - I see a 33MHz crystal.
kixswrote on 2025-02-08, 08:44:If I remember correctly Falcon 3.0 also didn't require a FPU. But it run much faster with it. […] Show full quote
If I remember correctly Falcon 3.0 also didn't require a FPU. But it run much faster with it.
I used to run it on my 286-16 and later added an AMD FPU.
@rfnagel: it's an interesting 286 board. Did you replace the CPU with 20MHz one? As there is no 40MHz crystal installed it still runs at ~16MHz - I see a 33MHz crystal.
I also never saw an AMD 286-20.
Falcon 3.0 didn't require a math coprocessor, only if you wanted to use the High Fidelity flight model.
My 80286 was a 16mhz machine. One side note (going from memory here): The motherboard came with a driver floppy that allowed for Expanded memory, something UNHEARD OF on a 286. Of course, Falcon 3.0 could make use of the Expanded memory for music and better graphics.
