* Falcon 4 History Chart *

Legend
___ source code edits Spectrum Holobyte iBeta Realism Patch eTeam Cobra/RedViper ViperOps OpenFalcon
--- data edits only MicroProse Realism Patch Group F4 Unified Team FreeFalcon Lead Pursuit GlobalFalcon
..... compatibility iBeta eRazor G2Interactive F4UT/BMS Skunkworks BenchMarkSims

F-16 Fighting Falcon released

1984 F-16 Fighting Falcon by Spectrum Holobyte

1985

1986

1987 Falcon Falcon released

1988 Falcon AT Falcon AT released

1989 Operation Counterstrike

1990 Operation Firefight

1991 Falcon 3.0 Falcon 3.0 released

1992 Operation Fighting Tiger

Spectrum Holobyte
1993 MiG-29 acquires MicroProse

Hornet: Naval Strike Fighter

Falcon 4.0 Falcon 3.0 Gold released

1994 xx/09/94
Falcon 4.0 announced
development starts

1995

Spectrum Holobyte
1996 uses MicroProse brand

1997

1998 12/08/98 Hasbro acquires MicroProse

Falcon 4.0 released

11/12/98 1.00 by MicroProse

20/12/98 1.03

1999 03/02/99 1.04

04/03/99 1.06

20/07/99 1.07

07/12/99 1.08 F4 team laid off by Hasbro

F4 team continue to work

17/12/99 1.08i until end of month

26/12/99 1.08i2

2000 18/02/00 iBeta Realism Patch 1.0

09/04/00 1.07 source code leaked

15/05/00 iBeta Realism Patch 2.0 F4Patch 1.0

17/05/00 iBeta Realism Patch 2.0a F4Patch 1.1

18/05/00 F4Patch 1.2

20/05/00 F4Patch 1.2.1

24/05/00 F4Patch 1.3

25/05/00 F4Patch 1.3a

29/05/00 iBeta Realism Patch 2.1

04/06/00 F4Patch 1.3b

11/06/00 F4Patch 1.4

25/06/00 F4Patch 1.4.1

04/07/00 eRazor 1.075-9

20/07/00 iBeta Realism Patch 3.0

22/07/00 F4Patch 2.0

26/07/00 eRazor 1.0795

05/08/00 F4Patch 2.1

06/08/00 F4Patch 2.1.1

Realism Patch no longer

21/08/00
associated with iBeta

13/11/00 F4Patch 3.0

22/11/00 Realism Patch 4.0 F4Patch 3.0.1

26/11/00 F4Patch 3.1

Hasbro removes official

09/12/00
F4 website

01/01/01 F4Patch 3.2

2001 10/01/01 Realism Patch 4.1

12/01/01 F4Patch 3.2.1

26/01/01 F4Patch 3.2.2

27/01/01 eRazor 1.0799

Hasbro Interactive
29/01/01
acquired by Infogrames

24/02/01 F4Patch 3.2.3

25/02/01 eRazor 1.0799-1

07/03/01 F4Patch 3.2.4

20/03/01 F4Patch 3.2.5

13/04/01 F4Patch 4.0

17/04/01 eFalcon 1.09

Letter of Intent between

15/05/01
G2Intercatives and Infogrames

04/07/01 F4Patch 4.1

Exe'edits deadline
06/08/01 Realism Patch 5.0 eFalcon 1.10 F4Patch 4.1.1 by G2Interactive

13/08/01 F4Patch 4.1.2

17/08/01 F4Patch 4.1.3

Launch of the F4UT

31/08/01
SuperPAK project

09/09/01 F4Patch 4.1.4

20/10/01 F4Patch 4.1.5

13/11/01 SuperPak 1

18/11/01 F4Patch 4.1.6

22/11/01 SuperPak 1a

Infogrames licenses F4
20/12/01
to G2Interactive

2002 20/01/02 F4Patch 4.2

28/01/02 SuperPak 2

07/05/02 F4Patch 4.2.1

Force12 announces
21/05/02
F4 Gold: OIR

28/05/02 F4Patch 4.2.2

04/06/02 SuperPak 3

SP3 source code

xx/xx/02 F4:OIR transferred to G2I

ViperOps secretly created

29/07/02 ViperOps to continue SP work

12/08/02 F4Patch 4.3

2003 xx/xx/03 ViperOps changelog leaked

xx/03/03 FreeFalcon announced

25/04/03 FreeFalcon 1

Infogrames changes
07/05/03
its name to Atari

13/05/03 FreeFalcon 1a

BenchMarkSims reaches
xx/08/03
a deal with G2I

BenchMarkSims announces
20/09/03 BMS 0.5 Falcon4-BMS

27/09/03 BMS 0.6

29/09/03 FreeFalcon 2

G2Interactive announces that

02/10/03
work on SP4 cannot continue

Apologies from
04/10/03
G2Interactive's president

05/10/03 BMS 0.7

13/10/03 BMS 0.8

21/10/03 BMS 0.9

22/10/03 MP 2

23/10/03 BMS 0.92

24/10/03 MP 3

25/10/03 BMS 0.94

29/10/03 MP 4

06/11/03 BMS 0.97

14/11/03 MP 5

17/11/03 BMS 0.98

21/11/03 MP 5-1

26/11/03 BMS 0.99

20/12/03 BMS 1.00

30/12/03 BMS 1.01

31/12/03 BMS 1.02

2004 01/01/04 BMS 1.03

09/01/04 FreeFalcon 2.1

21/02/04 F4Patch 5.0

25/02/04 SuperPak 4

G2Interactive decines Atari's

29/02/04 † F4 Gold OIR offer; no more F4 Gold: OIR

24/05/04 BMS 2.03

Atari cease and desist

26/05/04
letter to BMS

27/05/04 SuperPak 4.1

03/06/04 SP4.1 BMS data 1.0

11/06/04 SP4.1 BMS data 1.3

19/07/04 FreeFalcon 3

20/07/04 SP4.1 BMS data 1.4

High Fidelity Flight Models

25/10/04 HFFMs released

09/11/04 SuperPak 4.2

17/11/04 SP4.2 BMS data 1.0

BMS joined OF effort

2005 16/01/05 CobraOne 1.0 Cobra forked BMS

02/03/05 FreeFalcon 3.1/Cobra  1.1

15/03/05 FreeFalcon 3.1.1/Cobra 1.1.1

Falcon 4.0: Allied Force

28/06/05 Allied Force 1.0.1 released by Lead Pursuit

OpenFalcon reveals itself

30/07/05
End of development announced

09/08/05 Allied Force 1.0.2

17/09/05 Allied Force 1.0.3

29/12/05 Allied Force 1.0.4

2006 15/01/06 Allied Force 1.0.5

02/05/06 Allied Force 1.0.6

05/06/06 Allied Force 1.0.7

OF beta from April 23 leaked

18/08/06 OpenFalcon 4.1 OpenFalcon dismantled

BenchMarkSims takes over

xx/09/06
OF development

05/11/06 Allied Force 1.0.8

19/11/06 Allied Force 1.0.9

2007 30/01/07 FreeFalcon 4/RedViper 1 RedViper coders join Cobra

Last underground OF beta

05/02/07 OpenFalcon 4.3 from August 2006 released

OpenFalcon patch takeover

09/02/07 OpenFalcon 4.3.1 by GlobalFalcon community

25/02/07 Allied Force 1.0.10

02/03/07 OpenFalcon 4.4

04/03/07 OpenFalcon 4.4.1

19/03/07 FreeFalcon 4/RV 1.0.0.3

29/03/07 FreeFalcon 4/RV 1.0.0.4

01/04/07 Allied Force 1.0.11

14/06/07 Allied Force 1.0.12

15/08/07 OpenFalcon 4.5

2008 27/01/08 Allied Force 1.0.13

18/05/08 OpenFalcon 4.6

25/12/08 OpenFalcon 4.7

RedViper coders
2009 27/02/09 FreeFalcon 5 have left FreeFalcon

04/06/09 FreeFalcon 5.0a

14/10/09 FreeFalcon 5.3

2010 xx/xx/10 † Allied Force Lead Pursuit Inc. is no more

10/05/10 FreeFalcon 5.5

27/06/10 FreeFalcon 5.5.1

13/08/10 Skunkworks 1.2

28/09/10 FreeFalcon 5.5.2

11/10/10 FreeFalcon 5.5.3

2011 01/02/11 Skunkworks 2.0

14/02/11 FreeFalcon 5.5.4

28/02/11 FreeFalcon 5.5.5

08/04/11 † Skunkworks Skunkworks mod stopped

04/09/11 BMS 4.32 Falcon BMS released

2012 16/02/12 BMS 4.32 Update 1

09/04/12 FreeFalcon 6.0 BMS 4.32 Update 2

24/07/12 BMS 4.32 Update 3

29/12/12 BMS 4.32 Update 4

FreeFalcon mod stopped

2013 16/01/13 † FreeFalcon FreeFalconOSP launched

21/01/13 Atari filed for bankruptcy

24/04/13 BMS 4.32 Update 5

18/06/13 BMS 4.32 Update 6

Tommo Inc. bought rights from

22/07/13
Atari bankruptcy proceedings

10/11/13 BMS 4.32 Update 7

2014 30/10/14 † FreeFalconOSP FreeFalconOSP last commit

2015 30/10/15 BMS 4.33

Tommo asked for clarification

2016 29/01/16
of licensing issues

Agreement reached between

23/03/16
BMS and Tommo

BMS continues development with

05/04/16 BMS 4.33 Update 1 copyright owner permission

07/10/16 BMS 4.33 Update 2

29/12/16 BMS 4.33 Update 3

Falcon copyright acquired by

2017 22/11/17 BMS 4.33 Update 4 Billion Soft (Hong Kong) Limited

2018 14/03/18 BMS 4.33 Update 5

2019 19/04/19 BMS 4.34

21/12/19 BMS 4.34 Update 1

2020 11/01/20 BMS 4.34 Update 2

19/03/20 BMS 4.34 Update 3

25/04/20 BMS 4.34 Update 4

20/12/20 BMS 4.35

2021 24/02/21 BMS 4.35 Update 1

24/06/21 BMS 4.35 Update 2

18/10/21 BMS 4.35 Update 3

2022 24/04/22 BMS 4.36

21/07/22 BMS 4.36 Update 1

24/08/22 BMS 4.36 Update 2

15/09/22 BMS 4.36 Update 3

30/12/22 BMS 4.37

2023 28/01/23 BMS 4.37 Update 1

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