MiGMan’s Flight Sim Museum

MiGMan’s Flight Sim Museum

Flight of the Intruder

Dave Whiteside on the development of FOTI

Hehe - I wrote the menu system for Falcon on the ST/Amiga as my first job at Rowan - my brief was to emulate the MAC look and feel.
... which I did... and then added options in the menus so it could be Mac / ST / Amiga style.
We had a couple of 20Mhz 68020's [4Mb] and one IIRC 33Mhz - 68030 [8Mb] for development - so it had to run with the added speed.
A lot of effort was put into making it fit on two disks [floppys where expensive in those days..] and getting it to run in 512K [size of a cache these days..] the 1Mb version had a bit of headroom left - it cached the files off one of the disks.
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