ECS no. 1
ECS no. 2

Megafortress: Flight Of The Old Dog

ECS / OCS / RTG

Version info

No
Max 1, Sim 1

Features

Credits

Game design
Game design
Concept, Additional game design
Additional design

Hard Disk Installer

Yes

- HD installer is contained on disk 1.

- Approx. 1MB HD space is required.

Compilations

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
1992
Megafortress: Flight Of The Old Dog
Commercial
Full Price
Rest of the World
English
English, French, German, Italian
2
One version is common, at least one other version is rare
1992
Megafortress: Flight Of The Old Dog
Commercial
Full Price
USA
English
English, French, German, Italian
2
One version is common, at least one other version is rare

Notes

[1] Licensed game based on the 1987 best-selling novel "Flight of the Old Dog" by former U.S. Air Force navigator Dale Brown. The novel was included free with the U.S. release of the game published by Three-Sixty Pacific.

[2] Min. Requirements: 1MB ram.
Recommended: Multiple floppy drives or HD, extra memory (for better game performance due to data loaded from disk being cached in memory), accelerator (for enhanced gameplay elements such as double-buffering to improve the framerate of the graphics on some screens).

[3] Game supports full multitasking (memory permitting except on the Pilot or External Camera screens when gameplay is not paused), mouse/keyboard control, SAGE compatible gfx cards (see "LastMinute.txt" file on disk 1), and a quit back to WB option.

[4] Distributed in Italy by Leader.

Known releases:
- V1.0 (18-June-92)
- V1.1 (05-Aug-92) [requires MEGAFORTRESS: OPERATION SLEDGEHAMMER mission disk 1 update]
- V1.2 (16-Sept-92) [requires MEGAFORTRESS: OPERATION SKYMASTER mission disk 2 update]


TRIVIA: [1] Originally the game was going to consist of the Russian mission from the "Flight of the Old Dog" novel plus a few others, but the Gulf War in 1990/91 prompted the focus of the game to be shifted. Subsequently, Operation Desert Storm missions were integrated and assumed front and centre in the game.

[2] MEGAFORTRESS is one of the earliest commercial Amiga games, if not the first, to feature graphics card support.

Conversion Notes

Based on 1991 Artech/Three-Sixty Pacific PC (DOS) release.
PC versions: VGA

Screen info

ECS / OCS / RTG
Screenshot ECS no. 3

Screenshot ECS no. 4

Screenshot ECS no. 5

Screenshot ECS no. 6

Box: ECS / OCS / RTG
Box scan ECS no. 1

Box scan ECS no. 2

Disk: ECS / OCS / RTG
Misc: ECS / OCS / RTG
ECS no. 1

UK Advert (Amiga Format, Issue 36, 7/1992, Page 23)

ECS no. 2

Italian Advert

ECS no. 3

German Advert (PowerPlay 6/1991, Page 17)

Manual info

ECS / OCS / RTG

No manuals found.

ECS / OCS / RTG

No cheats found.

Conversion info

PC (DOS)
Conversion PC (DOS)

Conversion PC (DOS)

Map info

ECS / OCS / RTG

No maps found.

MAGAZINE REVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Amiga Computing
53 (Oct 1992)
60%
Ben Styles
2
Amiga Format
38 (Sep 1992)
77%
James Leach
2
Amiga Games
Oct 1992
73%
Mike Schneider
2
Amiga Joker
Aug - Sep 1992
64%
Max Magenauer
1
Amiga Mania
Sep 1992
88%
Tony Jones
2
Amiga Power
16 (Aug 1992)
82%
Richard Longhurst
2
CU Amiga
Jul 1992
75%
Mark Patterson
2
Datormagazin
No 14 (Aug 1992)
88%
Sten Ekedahl
0
Zero
35 (Sep 1992)
88%
Michael Horsham
1

MAGAZINE PREVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
ACE: Advanced Computer Entertainment
39 (Dec 1990)
Rik Haynes
Preview
1
Amiga Action
17 (Feb 1991)
Preview
0
Amiga Mania
Mar 1992
Paul Rigby
Preview (in-depth)
3

ECS / OCS / RTG

Lore Score: 77%

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