Whoa! First time seeing a booklet for a co-processor!

I believe Falcon 3.0 falls into the "other key business applications" category. 😁

I first learned of Falcon 3.0 from a 286 owner who also told me how great the Cyrix FasMath was.

Did some more MAJOR DIGGING... Yep, that was it! 😊

rfnagel wrote on 2025-02-07, 22:03:

Did some more MAJOR DIGGING... Yep, that was it! 😊

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I bought my first coprocessor specifically to accelerate Scorched Earth...

keenerb wrote on 2025-02-08, 03:23:

I bought my first coprocessor specifically to accelerate Scorched Earth...

I never realized that Scorched Earth required a math coprocessor, cool! 😊

rfnagel wrote on 2025-02-08, 03:43:

keenerb wrote on 2025-02-08, 03:23:

I bought my first coprocessor specifically to accelerate Scorched Earth...

I never realized that Scorched Earth required a math coprocessor, cool! 😊

It didn't, but it dramatically sped it up.

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.

kixs wrote 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. […]
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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.