Jane's USAF Lives !!! - A Tcklbrry Mod
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2020
- Jane's USAF is a middle-core combat flight simulator published by EA in 1999 where you can fly famous jet fighters such the A-10, F-15C, F-15E, F-117, F-16C, F-105 (and also Migs in multiplayer) through training missions, four campaigns and many single missions.
The amount of content was astounding and though the game wasn't without flaws (curious and versatile flight models and sometimes sluggish controls), it gathered lots of reconnaissance and appreciation from the enthusiastic combat flight sim community. It got mostly great reviews all around.
Unfortunately, through the years, Jane's USAF became almost unplayable due to the progress and changes of OS (many troubles and issues began with XP and ulterior versions of Windows seemed to forbid players from flying this great old sim). Glitches, bugs and crashes discouraged many simmers up to the point the only viable solution seemed to build a legacy computer or use a virtual application/emulator in order to fly the sim again.
Hopefully, things have change.
Thanks to the modding community, we can enjoy again this great simulator. One man in particular has spent his time and energy making Jane's USAF more than flyable : Tcklbrry. Thanks to him, it is now possible to play the game on modern systems such as Win 8.1 and Win 10.
Those of you who wants to try this modded version will find more info at the end of the video where I have listed the main features of the mod.
The Simhq Forums are also a really valuable source of information and help with a great community :
simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...
The McFly Aviation - USAF website, though being no more updated, still remains a goldmine for skins, mods, and many other Jane's USAF utilities (you have to allow adobe Flash plugging in order to access the website menu) : www.bobsyouruncle.net/mcflyho...
This video features a single training air-to-ground mission that can be found in the Training course of Jane's USAF. I'm also using a modded flight model that improves greatly on the flying experience from the original version : www.bobsyouruncle.net/downloa...
Enjoy and fly safe !!!
Andromedius. - Ігри
I had a blast working on this game bitd. Love that people are still enjoying it! ✈️
Thats super cool. What was game development like back then?
@@runninggames771 to be honest it was a lot simpler then. Pretty small tight team and we were working to our own internal deadlines and product quality. Things are much different now with everyone watching your progress online with Early Access, etc.
I have fond memories of this game from my childhood Thank you for your work.
I cant get it working on W10 64 bit. Installed , added 1.02F, then extracted and copied tackleberrys files from JUTPWSS.7z to USAF. Still starts and CTD's. Gimme the secret please.
Haven’t played the game back then wasn’t into gaming back then. Is there a way on how to play this game?
In hindsight sure 'oh, it's a simplified arcade radar'... but shouldn't the goal in real life to be that easy?!? Every time I go crazy trying to master AA and AG radar in DCS I just remember how simple and fun USAF was. Thanks for the unload, definitely a nice blast from the past.
i remember playing this only, pretty fun. Best terrain in a simulator ever when it was released.
After more than 30 years,this game still no. 1 of the other game
+30 Years? It's from 1999, not 1989
Good to see that you are still active, hope to see another breakthrough with this sim, or at least a mod community form to try and modernize the game engine to support at least DX9 and better textures, fix the limited sound support ( flare and missile launch use same sound ) and a few other things.
⚠️ TO WHOEVER WANTING TO PLAY JANE'S USAF ON WINDOWS 7/8/10
ua-cam.com/video/Vzod8I2-gTs/v-deo.html
The graphics looks great.
wonderfull game... I have the original box and CDs (the blue and red)... the box has this like a book open, with a picture of all the planes together... really good, and in the inside of the box, the book with instructions! I love the game, unfourtnetly the drive link is broke in the forum you posted
I loved this game when I was a Kid, its not really a Sim IMO It is, but It strikes a perfect balance of realism and fun. You could just fly a plane for a couple mins and fly a mission just fine. I would love If someone made a game with that realism/Fun balance with a nice campaign for multiple aircrafts dynamic campaigns and all of that with modern hardware in mind and nice graphics.
Maybe try Strike Fighters 2 by Third Wire, or watch out for Modern Air Combat by Eagle Dynamics (keep an eye on the DCS website) coming eventually...
Really nice to know, I await to know how to get that, considering that also the standard game program is hard today to be caught (piracy excluded, please) .
I think that this series had a nice balance between arcade and simulation, I found boring that the older games had only a playable plane and their graphics/sounds are really too bad. And trivial is observing that theese are the games where online multiplayer is mandatory
Woha! Easily my most favourite air combat SIM when I was a teenager! Even then I couldn't enjoy it fully cause of windows XP.
I might give it a try again now. I'm not sure I'm ready for the likes of DCS world and their absolute realism yet, not the likes of Ace combat and their arcade behaviour. This was the only game that struck the right balance for me! Thanks a lot!
Hi there! I'll send you a UA-cam video link so you can play it on Windows 10. (Make sure you install PowerISO on your pc before watching the video).
Here it goes: (I had it on this accounts history 😂)
ua-cam.com/video/Vzod8I2-gTs/v-deo.html
Thanks guys :D
wow good graphics for back then
This brings back memories. Thanks for uploading. Do you have the Super Pro 9.4 somewhere uploaded? I got USAF running now but the mod is just nowhere to be found...
Still this game in my spare room. I'll have to sort it out
The google doc link by Tcklbrry no longer points to anything. Any way you could share this?
love tackleberries superpro 9.4 redo for windows 10
Since head up display is a reflected projection of light, It is additive by nature and can't be darker than the environment, only brighter. Here and in other Jane sims it can be darker. It always puzzled me. Nitprick.
The big problem with Janes USAF was it's scale. In the internal workings of the code, it was revealed the scale of objects were rendered twice (scale 2) the size of the map scale. This was because Pixel were not allowed to render the game at scale 1 ( object rendered to real scale of digital map ) When attempting to use Scale 1, the aircraft would appear embedded in the runways etc and unusable. In many ways Janes USAF was very much ahead of it's time using the new affordable home computer tech. Even today Janes USAF is a playable game. I would disagree it's a middle core flight sim game but hey!!
Wondering what's your refresh rate for the game. Mine looks been locked at 20 fps =.= Any solutions?
Do you have any tips on how to fix lows fps? I got the game running with the instructions but it runs with around 20fps or lower. Is there a fix?
I'm using a GTX1070 Nvidia Card and a Ryzen 5 3600 cpu
Any possibility of same happening for apache?
How to fix the lag issue for this game?
Is the menu fully working in windows 10?
The Link is Dead. Is there anywhere to get the game anymore?
how i download it for windows 10
Wish janes longbow would run on windows 11
I would've loved it. Could never get it to work so I guess I'll never know.
Can you describe your issues with the sim ? What is your setup (OS, graphic card, RAM) ? I'll try to help if I can.
@@andromedius on a laptop no cd rom?
@@highlyclassified5565 Not exactly sure what you're asking about. There are ISO for Jane's USAF if you don't have a cd-rom or a dvd in your laptop. There are also no-cd for the sim.
How can I get the game?
Also f-22
NM found them with a Google search
Good graphics and sim for the time. But it looks so slow. It looks like you are taking of at 40 mph 😃. Regards DCS F-16 «pilot».
There is a fast forward button. Lol what an amazing game... they thought of everything,
won't load the files.
Can you elaborate ? I'd like to help.
@@andromedius I mean, I enter the links and says that it won't find the website
@@santiagonaya2995 Okay, there was something wrong but now the links should work.