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Birds Of Prey

ECS/OCS

alias F-117A Aggressor [Prerelease name] alias Hawk [Prerelease name] alias X [Prerelease name]

Birds Of Prey - Double Barrel Screenshot

Information

Year of the first release

1991

License

Commercial

Number of disks (or CD)

Publisher

Electronic Arts - Rest of the World
IPS Computer Group - Poland

Number max of players

Budget publisher

Hit Squad, The (Ocean) - Worldwide

Simultaneous max players

Developer

Argonaut

Language

English

Artists

Coder : Christopher Humphries
Coder : Enigma Software Developments / E. S. D. Productions
Coder : Ian Crowther
Coder : Mark Washbrook
Coder : Peter Warnes
Coder : Steve Chalmers
Graphician : Christopher Humphries
Graphician : Danny Emmett
Graphician : Giles Goddard
Graphician : Herman Serrano
Graphician : Ian Crowther
Graphician : Kevin Holland
Graphician : Paul Reid
Graphician : Peter Warnes
Graphician : Steve Chalmers
Graphician : Tom Ashton
Graphician : Tony Smith (Anthony Smith)
Musician : Giles Goddard
Musician : Steve Brown
Misc : Adam Polanski
Misc : Argonaut
Misc : Giles Goddard

Language in manual

English
French
German
Italian
Polish

Hardware

ECS
OCS

Amiga original game

yes

Have cheatcode

Have SPS release

yes

WHD install

yes

WHD information

Author	JOTD
Updated	2019-11-10 00:11:48

HD install

yes

HD notes

Genre
Category	Simulation
Subcategory	Simulation - Uncategorised
Dimension	3D
Theme	Transport - Combat Plane
Viewpoint	Cockpit
Viewpoint	Sideways
Viewpoint	Top Down

Conversion hardware

PC (DOS)
Tandy PC/IBM PCjr

Conversion notes

PC versions: CGA, EGA, MCGA/VGA, Tandy

N.B. Despite magazine previews and a demo preview, an Atari ST version was never released.

Classic compilation

Relationship

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Rarity: One version is common, at least one other version is rare

Notes:

[1] Game design by Argonaut Software.
Coding by Christopher Humphries and Peter Warnes; additional coding by Mark Washbrook; intro sequence by Enigma Software and intro written by Steve Chalmers; game front-end by Christopher Humphries and Ian Crowther.
3D graphics system by Peter Warnes, 3D shape design by Danny Emmett and flight dynamics by Christopher Humphries; additional gfx by Paul Reid and Giles Goddard; intro gfx by Kevin Holland and intro animation by Steve Chalmers; artwork by Herman Serrano and Tom Ashton; additional front-end artwork by Ian Crowther; game map by Anthony Smith and Christopher Humphries.
Music by Kevin Holland; in-game sound FX by Giles Goddard and intro sound FX by Steve Brown.
Disk IO by Adam Polanski; disk loader and decompression routines by Giles Goddard.

[2] BIRDS OF PREY V1.1 (Update Patch) is available from Aminet HERE (dir: game/patch/BirdsOfPreyPch.lha).

Known releases: V1.0 (26-Nov-91), V1.1 (25-Mar-92)