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Dogfight: 80 Years of Aerial Warfare

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Dogfight: 80 Years of Aerial Warfare
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Falkland Islands, June 1982. Even in Summer there is a chill to the crisp morning air as the British Task Force launches its fighters. The Argentine air force responds, and soon the air is filled with …. Spitfires and Mirages? Welcome to Dogfight, the flight combat simulator that lets you create fas...
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1993, MicroProse, ...
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Windows 7 or higher, Pentium 4 or higher, 256 MB RAM, DirectX 9 compatible, 100 MB available space...
Description
Falkland Islands, June 1982. Even in Summer there is a chill to the crisp morning air as the British Task Force launches its fighters. The Argentine air force responds, and soon the air is filled with …. Spitfires and Mirages? Welcome to Dogfight, the flight combat simulator that lets you create fascinating what-if scenarios.

First published in 1993 by Microprose, Dogfight: 80 Years of Aerial Warfare was described by PC Zone Magazine as “a gift for the imagination” that “concentrates on the most important section of a flight sim, the dogfight.”

Dogfight provides three game modes that focus on pure air combat simulation.

Duel mode puts you into the cockpit in a one-one one battle right out of the gate.

In Mission mode you select from one of six theaters of war, then choose to patrol, attack a target, support other aircraft in an attack, or defend your territory. For more modern missions you also get to select which armaments to carry into battle.

What If mode you allows you to mix and match any of the 12 aircraft with any of the missions. What to test your skills in a Spitfire against a Mirage of Syria? Have at it.

Dogfight is a classic PC flight combat simulator that provides countless hours of gameplay.

  • 12 legendary fighter aircraft spanning 80 years of warfare
  • Authentic cockpits with fully functioning instruments
  • Third-person and first person view with realistic all-around cockpit vision
  • Three game modes: Duel, Mission and What If
  • Six accurately mapped historical scenarios
  • Strategic mission planning, including resource allocation, support, patrol and defence operations
  • Detailed manual

Aircraft include the Sopwith Camel, Fokker DRT, MkII Supermarine Spitfire, Messerschmitt Bf109E, North American F-86E, McDonnell Douglas F-4f Phantom II, British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS: 1, Dassault Breguet Mirage IIIE, General Dynamics F-16A Flying Falcon, MiG 23 “Flogger 8”, and Mikoyen-Gurevich MiG-15.

Scenarios include WWI over Northern France, WW2 over Channel and English coast, North Korea between the Kimpo airfield and Yalu river, Vietnam over Hanoi and Haiphong, the Falkland Islands over Port Stanley, and the Six Day War over the Bekaa Valley and the Golan Heights.

The term dogfight has been applied to combat for centuries, but it wasn’t until WWI when the term was applied to aerial combat. A famous usage, and perhaps the first time the term was used to describe aerial combat, was in a London Times article describing the death of Captain Baron von Richtofen … the Red Baron. Oddly enough, the famous pilot was killed during a dogfight not by another airman, but by ground fire.

© 1993-2021 Atari Interactive, Inc. ATARI, the ATARI logo, are trademarks of Atari Interactive, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Posted on: January 11, 2024

Darkhour79

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Games: 117 Reviews: 1

Doesnt run properly, but there is a fix.

The GOG version dosbox config doesnt run smoothly out the box. Frame rate is choppy and the mouse is inoperable. I found by transferring game files to DBGL (dosbox emulator), then running it from there with the following settings works like a charm. Machine: svga_s3 CPU Type: 386 Core: Auto Cycles: 50000 Memory size: 16 The rest of the default settings are fine. After that is runs perfect, buttery smooth and even recognized my Logitech Extreme 3D Pro flight stick.


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Posted on: May 3, 2022

An underrated classic

Dogfight is one of the first flight sims I have a recollection of playing on PC, and I’ve had a blast with it back in the day. Some may argue the term "flight sim" is an overstatement in this particular case, and I agree - the game's mostly an arcade-style reproduction of famous aerial battles and conflicts, but it fits well within what was called a "flight sim" in the DOS era. One of the nice things I haven't come across in any other games of the genre are the "what if" simulations. Care to see what happens if you pilot a MiG-21 against a squadron of Spitfires? Say no more. People who have played other MicroPorse flight sims will feel at home with the control scheme. Overall, this game was and still is a lot of fun, but in no way does it have the breadth and depth of other games in the genre. Given that you can pilot a wide variety of historical combat aircraft, spanning from WW I to the Falkland Islands conflict and later air skirmishes over Syria, the amount of refinement in the simulation is less that what you'd see in a game focusing on a particular type of aircraft.


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Posted on: January 2, 2023

Jarematom

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Games: 125 Reviews: 3

Something doesn't fell right

I played Dogfight on a 486SX/25 mHz back in the day, it was super smooth and in no way as choppy as this port is. Steering left/right is imprecise and instead of a smooth steering we get choppy controls, as if the game was running with a reduced framerate. The game is unplayable as it is now as it feels like being played on a 386SX PC with 1 MB of RAM that could barely run the game. Btw: use CTRL+Q to exit the game. I think that this port should be rebalanced since it does not provide the same playability as the orignial MS DOS version.


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Posted on: January 6, 2024

asla

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Games: 729 Reviews: 49

Average

I'm afraid that the game is not really playable using dosbox. I've tried to play it as it is, and by changing several configuration parameters as well, but the result is that the animation is always too choppy.


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Posted on: January 11, 2023

TTracer543

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Games: 12 Reviews: 1

Very Good

I purchased this game back in late 1994. It's exactly how I remembered it. The sounds and graphics are very nostalgic. Whilst the flight physics aren't 100% accurate, they are very forgiving and playable.


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