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54 lines
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OPERATION: FIREFIGHT
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OPERATION: FIREFIGHT is a mission disk for use with FALCON, the premier
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combat flight simulator from Spectrum Holobyte. The basis of this article
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is the Atari ST version and in order to fly it you'll need FALCON and an ST
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with 512K, a color monitor, and 360K disk drive. Although OF will run on
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512K of memory, Spectrum recommends 1MB, which will take advantage of
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additional sound and graphics enhancements. Both the Black Box flight
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recorder and the communication features have been dropped.
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FIREFIGHT showcases all the wonders of FALCON -- outstanding graphics and
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animation, exhilarating flight simulation, excellent sound effects and
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digitized voices --, and offers an all-new campaign built around twelve
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all-new missions, new weapons and enemy craft, keyboard control, hard drive
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support, and no copy protection.
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In OPERATION: COUNTERSTRIKE, the previous FALCON mission disk, air
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battles took place mostly over enemy territory; enemy top gunners got
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warnings from ground control communications. In FIREFIGHT, the stick is on
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the other foot: though some of the missions are strictly offensive strikes,
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you're basically defending your home territory. You'll have access to
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messages from friendly ground control, which is a good thing because you're
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going to be terribly outnumbered. The basic objective is achieve numerical
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superiority, in terms of tanks, over the enemy.
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Like FALCON and COUNTERSTRIKE, OF can be controlled completely with the
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keyboard; either mouse or joystick can be used for banks, climbs, and
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dives, while the keyboard handles all view controls and aircraft functions.
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Unless you have a joystick that's been specially designed for flight
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simulation, the keyboard is the controller of choice. Keystrokes 1
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(clockwise) and 2 (counterclockwise) rotate the outside view around the
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aircraft.
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The OPERATION: FIREFIGHT package for the ST comes with one 360K disk and
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a manual explaining the campaign structure and the new missions. The OF
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disk replaces FALCON disk one; it can be backed up on a floppy. An
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alternative is to copy the OF disk and FALCON disk two on to a 720K disk.
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The Install program will copy the necessary files to your hard drive, but
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the chances of the program running from it are no better than 50/50: my ST
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bombed out more often than not. If you want to run OF from a particular
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hard drive partition, rather than the default, you can edit the datafile
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that works with the Install program.
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OPERATION: FIREFIGHT can be reviewed easily, without a lot of detail: if
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you already have FALCON, you can rest assured that FIREFIGHT is everything
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FALCON is. If you don't have FALCON, you should purchase it immediately:
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it's a contemporary classic that takes full advantage of an excellent
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machine. FIREFIGHT will then sell itself, no hype necessary from either me
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or Spectrum Holobyte.
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OPERATION: FIREFIGHT is published and distributed by Spectrum Holobyte.
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