I'm always looking for knew game genre's to keep my interest in the Amstrad fresh. Never really been a fan of flight sims particularly. But as I am finding I have pretty much checked out most games on the system .Find I want to appreciate the games that weren't my thing . Flight Sims catch my interest at the moment and been playing Digital Intergrations 'Fighter Pilot' a game I sort of know from having the Beau Jolly pack. I actually managed to land the thing earlier, so was pretty stoked ,the game seems to play pretty well and seems a reasonable Sim. However I am sure there are some better ones kicking about , are their any recommendations by anyone who was keen on them . Or is it a genre that no one is fussed about on here?
Activision Fighter Bomber
ATF Digital Integration
Chucker Yeagers
Quote from: dcdrac on 21:58, 03 April 16
Activision Fighter Bomber
ATF Digital Integration
Chucker Yeagers
ATF is good little Arcade style flight sim quick to get into and easy to learn, but hard to master. Chuck yeagers looks pretty technical . And Fighter Bomber very sharp although I get some of them mixed up , there are so pretty tasty looking games in the sim department , very polished in their presentation.
F16 Combat Pilot - by far and away the best flight sim I ever played on an 8-bit
Quote from: andycadley on 22:32, 03 April 16
F16 Combat Pilot - by far and away the best flight sim I ever played on an 8-bit
I actually had lots of fun with it when I was a kid, although landing was never my strong point :picard2:
F16 Combat and Fighter Bomber both look awesome. You guy's reckon F16 has got the edge on Fighter Bomber? Trying to remember which one had the Pentagon on the Main Menu, looked very smart. But Gameplay is the key and the options/variety.
Gunship, nothing beats Gunship. (Anybody having the German version. I offer 20 Euros for the DSK).
oh yes Gunship and F16 were amazing
ATF for speed. Tomahawk for accuracy and relatively good speed.
Bryce.
Flight sims were never my thing either. But I spent many happy hours playing Night Raider.
http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1517
Quote from: Bryce on 21:23, 04 April 16
ATF for speed. Tomahawk for accuracy and relatively good speed.
Bryce.
Tomahawk or Gunship? Fight who'd win
Quote from: CraigsBar on 23:24, 04 April 16
Flight sims were never my thing either. But I spent many happy hours playing Night Raider.
night raider © gremlin graphics software (1988) (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1517)
I fancy a go at this one, is the one where you have to manage a number of screens? And takes some getting to grips with procedures or am I thinking of Dambusters?
Thanks for the decent suggestions btw
Quote from: Puresox on 23:32, 04 April 16
Tomahawk or Gunship? Fight who'd win
Ah, do you remeber the fights/discussions back then on which was better? I was always on the Tomahawk side, although it needed that very annoying Lenslok.
Bryce.
The biggest problem of Tomahawk is that it has BLOCKS(!!!) instead of lines to show the cockpit, they should have just left them away. As you see I like Gunship more, especially since I made a bag of medals with it. The stuff around the simulator could have been a bit more (they had a bit more in c64). Well, maybe it's time to blow up one of them to 128 KB. :P :P :P 8) 8) 8) ;D ;D ;D :) :) :)
Was the C64 version vastly superior?
CPC Power seems to rate Tomahawk as the better game.
Quote from: Puresox on 18:33, 05 April 16
Was the C64 version vastly superior?
IMHO the simulation itself is worse. But the eye candy around it (f.e. rotation of helicopter in pic while loading weapons etc.) was better.
i have a blured memory of fighter pilot
fighter pilot © digital integration (1985) (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=872)
Tomahawk seems quite easy to get into , managed to pick up and play without the instructions and take out a few enemies, still need to get to grips with controlling the copter , managing to park the thing gave me some issues . Now want to check out how Gunship plays
Fighter Bomber! The best (ok, I didn't play all of them) :).
Quote from: roudoudou on 21:41, 05 April 16
i have a blured memory of fighter pilot
fighter pilot © digital integration (1985) (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=872)
I used to play that quite a bit. Was ok for a bit of a shoot-up, but landing the plane was close to impossible.
Bryce.
Good god Fighter bomber looks like Falcon on the amstrad !!!!! 8)
gunship really was a favourite of mine too...
else I wasn't a lot into Flight/dogfight simulators until I got my AT286PC in EGA graphics... (LHX attack Chopper and FighterBomber were great at 12mhz)
FighterBomber seems to be quite impressive for a 8bit machine but really, have to recognize the framerate is not quite... well...
Elite is quite a classic, not quite flight simulator but hey...
Starglider as well wasn't really a flight simulator but nice FPS feeling.
F16 Combat Pilot looks good but I don't know how it plays.
Out of Gunship and Tomahawk , I'd rate Tomahawk easier to get to grips with , but Gunship is equally decent just got to get my head around the key layouts , Wish my Monitor worked so I could use my real machine and put the key overlays on
I must admit that I would have enjoyed a lot those filled polygons and views from outside the plane in Fighter Bomber back in the day. One thing I did not like in F16 Combat Pilot is that it uses not filled graphics and I could not see more than the cockpit of the plane. Eventually I managed to get a copy of Fighter Bomber but it did not load well... :picard:
Flight Path 737 just for the unforgettable music
gosh how it was hard!
Quote from: remax on 09:50, 07 April 16
Flight Path 373 just for the unforgettable music
gosh how it was hard!
yeah, had it on tape/464 during my very young age... and guess what, I forgot the music actually...
Fighter Bomber can seem slow from today perspective (and even at the time for me who had it on a EGA coloured AT at 12mhz PC...)
But really, impressive plain faces 3D with lots of view options...
Quote from: MacDeath on 22:46, 07 April 16
yeah, had it on tape/464 during my very young age... and guess what, I forgot the music actually...
That's because you drink too much beer :P
Guess Combat Lynx doesn't make the grade? :'( I've played that, but haven't played the others. :D
Yeah , I want to learn Combat Lynx always loved the look of it as a kid . I'd love to see a demo vid of it .
Quote from: Puresox on 01:02, 09 April 16
Yeah , I want to learn Combat Lynx always loved the look of it as a kid . I'd love to see a demo vid of it .
Video of it here complete with Swearing. It's been ages since I've played it, and I seem to be doing what the guy in the video was doing and just cruising around, there are different difficulty levels though, so I would of been on the Easiest. I don't think there was any Joystick control as the game has a number of options for flying your helicopter. Age wise it was written in 1985, it may not be the fastest Flight Sim around, but was still playable.
Quote from: AMSDOS on 05:33, 09 April 16
Video of it here complete with Swearing. It's been ages since I've played it, and I seem to be doing what the guy in the video was doing and just cruising around, there are different difficulty levels though, so I would of been on the Easiest. I don't think there was any Joystick control as the game has a number of options for flying your helicopter. Age wise it was written in 1985, it may not be the fastest Flight Sim around, but was still playable.
Thanks for the link , but unfortunately I remember seeing it and didn't learn anything more than I already knew, Not moaning at the vid though cos he makes no claim to be giving a demonstration of the game.
I think the area of demo-ing more complex games is niche that needs to be filled on You Tube.
Didn't Combat Lynx have an option for double joystick control? I'm sure I recall tht being an option. Really quite unique if it was considering it's age too
Gunship for me as well, but I seem to remember ploughing hours into ATF!
Quote from: Puresox on 13:04, 09 April 16
Didn't Combat Lynx have an option for double joystick control? I'm sure I recall tht being an option. Really quite unique if it was considering it's age too
Doesn't say anything about Double Joystick Control, just looking at the Playing Instructions for the Amstrad it only mentions Arrow Keys for Up Down Left Right, depending on what mode your in depends on the keys pressed so for:
In Flight:
Copy - Move Faster
Del - Move Slower
Arrow Keys - Up Down Left or Right
The Map:
M - Map (on/off)
Arrow Keys - Up Down Left or Right
Space - Map Moves Faster
Arming the Lynx:
Land at Base - Start Loading
+ - Increase Load
- - Decrease Load
Enter - Select Weapon
Space - End Loading
Firing Weapons Systems:
X and Z - Choose Weapon
Space - Fire
Arrow Keys - Sights Up Down Left or Right
Information about Bases:
1 to 6
General Controls:
S - Sound (on/off)
P - Pause (on/off)
Quote from: AMSDOS on 23:07, 09 April 16
Doesn't say anything about Double Joystick Control, just looking at the Playing Instructions for the Amstrad it only mentions Arrow Keys for Up Down Left Right, depending on what mode your in depends on the keys pressed so for:
In Flight:
Copy - Move Faster
Del - Move Slower
Arrow Keys - Up Down Left or Right
The Map:
M - Map (on/off)
Arrow Keys - Up Down Left or Right
Space - Map Moves Faster
Arming the Lynx:
Land at Base - Start Loading
+ - Increase Load
- - Decrease Load
Enter - Select Weapon
Space - End Loading
Firing Weapons Systems:
X and Z - Choose Weapon
Space - Fire
Arrow Keys - Sights Up Down Left or Right
Information about Bases:
1 to 6
General Controls:
S - Sound (on/off)
P - Pause (on/off)
Just looked it up on cpc power , and the instructions state that two joysticks are an option, the only game I know that does this on the cpc
combat lynx © durell software (1985) (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&onglet=notices&num=596)
Written on here
Quote from: Puresox on 00:24, 10 April 16
Just looked it up on cpc power , and the instructions state that two joysticks are an option, the only game I know that does this on the cpc
Well I cannot argue with that, but what I posted earlier was the controls given from Budget version edition of Combat Lynx which was distributed by Encore.
The budget releases really used to screw you over with the lack of instructions, Captain Blood was a waste of time? Didnt teach you anything
Slightly ironic considering the game is all about communication :D
I never played any flight sims on the CPC. I did love (REALLY love) Fighter Bomber on my 1040STFM, but I didn't remember the CPC version looked so cool! yeah, low frame rate of course, but...