In the first few missions, it says I'm only encountering one plane, but I keep having to kill more and I don't get credit.

In mission 2, I shot down 3 planes, but somehow I failed the mission and didn't get credit for any kills, even though the report said I only encountered one plane.

What the hell is going on? It would make sense if more planes are showing up as missions go on, but why am I not getting credit for shooting them down? And why are my missions failing?

I bugged the same thing to support this morning. It appears that the 'death' of enemy planes is contingent on them actually hitting the ground - which, quite often, they do not. I suspect some sort of rounding error during height calculation, likely a bug in the 68K engine of the RockLobster emulator. We'll see what they come back with.

Rodney

The bug is old and should be pretty well known to cinemaware.
I'm not sure why they don't fix it.
They don't even comment on it.
That is the worst kind of customer support you can imagine, as they still sell the game in the broken version without any shame.
:(

This used to happen about once every 25 missions on my real A500. Now it happens multiple times every mission.

I remember this back in the Amiga days as well.

It was far more common than once every 25 missions or soin my experience.

I found the closest thing for a fix was to keep it in sight, shooting as you went....which was incredibly difficult with multiple opponents.

As for why it's buggy...it could well be that this was a fix to prevent a system lock-up due to having run out of memory, base A500s having a mere 512 Kb of (fast) RAM, compared to modern systems with 8+GB of even faster RAM.