 |
| My original C-64 Version from 1990 |
"F-16 Combat Pilot" was Digital Integrations fourth flight simulator and came out in 1989. I remember buying it from a Munich software shop when I was in the Army in 1990.
"Fighter Pilot" was published in 1984 and started a long and successful line of combat flight simulations.
 |
| DI's Fighter Pilot from 1984 |
It was followed by "Tomahawk", a rather simplistic combat helicopter simulation in 1985 and "ATF: Advanced Tactical Fighter" in 1987, which I wouldn't call a real flight simulator. From all the predecessors I can only recall "Fighter Pilot". And that one mostly from the fact that you could edit the title screen with Koala Painter on your C-64.
After Combat Pilot DI hat some major hits in the flight sim community with "Tornado", "Apache" and "Hind". The last one I remember playing was "F/A-18 Superhornet". One of my absolut all-time favorites was and still is, of course "Tornado" (yes, that's on my list for possible candidates in the future).
According to MobyGames, the Project Leader was a "David Marshall", who I don't recall by name to be honest.
Let's take a closer look!
 |
| No download and a lousy PDF file ... |
The 5,25" disk came with a 100 page manual, a quick cockpit overview, a keyboard card and some loading instructions. The manual is a translated into german (which wasn't a good sign in the 80's), but I have it in good memory. 100 pages wasn't that thick compared to those from Microprose. I will go more into detail of the manual later.
So, in the next step I will set up the sim in an emulator. Most of the time I will use DOSbox to play the DOS/EGA version, but I will also take a look at the C-64, the Amiga and the (!) ZX-Spectrum version.
cu
Jens
No comments:
Post a Comment