jcoper@ccu.umanitoba.ca (D. Joseph Creighton) (04/26/91)
I recently tried to download the demo game mentioned here called Strikejets. There was an I/O error (bad media?) when I tried to unstuff the larger program application of StrikeJets. Any problems elsewhere? Can anyone with a good copy send one down the lines for me? (Waiting to see if this can outdo my favorite Falcon simulator... :) --- +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | D. Joseph Creighton | "We are all faced with a series | | <jcoper@ccu.umanitoba.ca> | of great opportunities brilliantly | | U of M Computer Services | disguised as impossible situations." | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
ldoering@caen.engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering) (04/28/91)
In article <1991Apr26.144751.12583@ccu.umanitoba.ca> jcoper@ccu.umanitoba.ca (D. Joseph Creighton) writes: >I recently tried to download the demo game mentioned here called >Strikejets. There was an I/O error (bad media?) when I tried to >unstuff the larger program application of StrikeJets. > >Any problems elsewhere? Can anyone with a good copy send one down >the lines for me? > >(Waiting to see if this can outdo my favorite Falcon simulator... :) The copy at the umich archive is OK (at least I downloaded it successfully). It won't outdo Falcon, though. The program is not a flight simulator - it looks a lot like a computer version of the old SPI boardgame Air War. You enter movement orders for your planes and it executes them simultaneously with your opponent's (human or computer) orders, and then redisplays the board. The game simplifies a lot of aspects of air combat (for playability, I assume), so if you're looking for an accurate simulation, stick with Falcon.