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ECS no. 2

Birds Of Prey

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

General info

Amiga Original

Relationships

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Stats

12,067

Genre

Conversions

PC (DOS)
Tandy PC/IBM PCjr

ECS / OCS

Version info

No
Max 1, Sim 1

Features

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
1991
Birds Of Prey
AKA X
AKA Hawk
AKA F-117A Aggressor
Commercial
Full Price
Rest of the World
English
English, French, German, Italian, Polish
2
One version is common, at least one other version is rare
1991
Birds Of Prey
AKA X
AKA Hawk
AKA F-117A Aggressor
Commercial
Full Price
Poland
English
English, French, German, Italian, Polish
2
One version is common, at least one other version is rare
1994
Birds Of Prey
AKA X
AKA Hawk
AKA F-117A Aggressor
Commercial
Budget
Worldwide
English
English, French, German, Italian, Polish
2
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 AminetHERE (dir: game/patch/BirdsOfPreyPch.lha). 


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

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.

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Box: ECS / OCS
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Original Release (front)

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Budget Release (front)

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Budget Release (back)

Disk: ECS / OCS
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Original Release (Polish)

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Misc: ECS / OCS
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Manual Cover (Polish) [front]

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Warranty Card (front)

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UK Pre-release Advert (Amiga Format, Issue 29, 12/1991, Pages 16 & 17)

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German Pre-release Advert (PowerPlay 2/1992, Pages 170 & 171)

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German Advert (PowerPlay 9/1992, Pages 24 & 25)

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UK Advert (CU Amiga 12/1993, Page 76) [Budget]

Manual info

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Manual Addendum (English/German/Italian/French)

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Command Summary Card (English)

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Command Summary Card (Polish)

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No cheats found.

Conversion info

PC (DOS)
Conversion PC (DOS)

VGA

Conversion PC (DOS)

Tandy PC/IBM PCjr
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Map info

ECS / OCS

No maps found.

MAGAZINE REVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Amiga Action
29 (Feb 1992)
86%
Jason Simmons
2
Amiga Computing
45 (Feb 1992)
94%
Anton Black
2
Amiga Format
30 (Jan 1992)
88%
James Leach
3
Amiga Joker
Feb 1992
87%
Max Magenauer
1
Amiga Joker
May 1994
Joachim Nettelbeck
Re-release
1
Amiga Magazine
15 (May - Jun 1992)
5/10
Sander Assenbroek Machielsen
2
Amiga Power
9 (Jan 1992)
81%
Jonathan Davies
4
Amiga World
Vol 8 No 5 (May 1992)
Peter Olafson
0
Australian Commodore and Amiga Review
Vol 9 No 3 (Mar 1992)
95%
David Sanna
0
CU Amiga
Dec 1991
94%
Mark Patterson
3
Datormagazin
No 4 (Feb 1992)
70%
Christer Bau
0
Games-X
34 (Dec 1991)
4/5
John Davison
2
Génération 4
41 (Feb 1992)
80%
Didier Latil
0
Joystick
22 (Dec 1991)
85%
Moulinex
0
Svenska Hemdatornytt
No 2 (Feb 1992)
94%
0
The One
39 (Dec 1991)
88%
Laurence Scotford
2
The One
66 (Mar 1994)
80%
Matt Broughton
Re-release
1
Zero
27 (Jan 1992)
90%
Duncan MacDonald
2

MAGAZINE PREVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Amiga Computing
37 (Jun 1991)
Preview
1
Amiga Format
24 (Jul 1991)
Trenton Webb
Preview (in-depth)
1
Amiga Power
1 (May 1991)
Gary Penn
Preview (in-depth)
3
Games-X
15 (Aug 1991)
Preview (in-depth)
2
The One
10 (Jul 1989)
Phil South
Preview (in-depth)
4
The One
31 (Apr 1991)
Brian Nesbitt
Preview (in-depth)
2
Zero
19 (May 1991)
David Wilson
Preview
0

ECS / OCS

Lore Score: 81%

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