Dogfight II
does anybody remember the game, 'dogfight 2'? it was semi- public domain and came to us from a company called 'deja vu' for a pound or two. ive found other games called dogfight but they are not the same. it was a top down experience with 8 aircraft (we usually crammed the fingers of 3 people around the keyboard and had 5 computer players). these aircraft ranged from things like super planes to the more arcane 'stringbags' of world war 1, super heroes like superman and even handgliders. i particularly remember the handgliders because now and again a demolition derby level came up where if you touched another aircraft you would die, and for handgliders they all start touching each other which made it tricky to survive.
i cannot find this game but it was so much fun in multiplayer that im sure somebody here will remember it. maybe it had a different name. we still have the disk im sure but i wouldnt know how to convert it into an adf. the name also suggests there was a prequel version. we bought it in 1990/1991. tommy. |
Duuuuuuude!
I remember this game. Used to play it all the time on with my brother (and other friends) Some of the 'aircraft' were circular spaceships which I recall were almost impossible to use because it was very unclear about which direction you were orientated! I can't find any mention about the game on the internet other than yours! I also must have the disk somewhere. I could, with some considerable effort now - convert it to an .ADF file. But demand doesn't seem that high in general :D Sorry I've replied 14 years later. |
Now we wanna see the game :D
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Interesting. Would be good to see the adf.
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This sounds very interesting, but are you sure it was an Amiga game?
If you have it in a disk, by all means, please upload it! |
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Yes, it's definitely an Amiga game and it's superb. It's by Aaron and Adam Fothergill. I have a copy, however it annoyingly crashes after the menu screen. I can upload it to the Zone if anyone wants to try and salvage it? Here's a photo I posted a few years ago (triumphantly, before finding out the bloody thing didn't work properly) :( http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...&postcount=101 |
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...fixed, see attached :p |
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Ooops, slight issue due to font size... corrected ;)
...only tested level 1 & 2; any other issues then please let me know. |
Hmmm, seems to crash after Level 3 :sad
...happens with the disk version I made and also when testing with the original files in ClassicWB 3.1 Lite. Used SnoopDos and nothing missing; may need an expert to work out why. |
Maybe the game is only 3 levels and that's it?
...there's nothing in the settings to select the "number of levels" to be played. I really don't know, never played this before in my life... anyone who had the original / purchased version previously i.e. back in the day, want to comment? |
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I was playing around again today and testing; once the game went onto Level 5 before crashing / returning to the CLI...
I think the program is a bit buggy; maybe one of the talented coders on EAB can take a look and possibly fix? |
Hmmm, I think this is crashing due to files missing from the archive you uploaded clebin :sad
From the screenshot below, on the left you can see the filenames listed in "disklist.dat", and on the right the files that are actually in the archive: https://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2018/07/06/001.png These are the missing files: Code:
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What a shame. It may turn up eventually. But at least we can try the first few levels now at least. Well done on the fix and sluething DD [emoji4]
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It would be interesting to try filling in the missing numbered abk files (doggy, selector and display) with copies of earlier numbers in the sequence. I can't check till I'm home, but they might just be colour variations so would be a small loss but allow the game to run. The non .abk files I'm guessing are alternative plane-sets. In which case, they're entirely optional. If you look at my menu screenshot, I suspect that the icon on the middle right ([disk] -> [plane]) is used to load them if you want to play with hand-gliders for instance.. Possibly, maybe, my friend can find the full copy on disk but he's a teacher with 3 young kids and a house to renovate so, well, you get the idea... |
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...already tried that but still fails :crying Maybe to do with the non .abk files still missing or something. Quote:
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...seems this game is really rare considering the thread / requests dates back to 2004 etc. Hopefully your friend can help us all with providing the full release / files as it needs to be preserved for the good of the Amiga community ;) |
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