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F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0 (1991)

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This is the Amiga version of the classic flight sim from Microprose released in 1991 for PC MS-DOS and in 1993 for Commodore Amiga.

I'm running it on Amiga emulator called WinUAE emulating Amiga 1200 (basic configuration) with 800% floppy drive speed to cut down loading times.

This version is pretty good, it differes from the DOS version, the engine feels similar to Amiga version of Gunship 2000. It runs pretty good on Amiga 1200. The only drawback is strange behaviour of flight model - which can be seen during my landing approach. The aircraft will fly at a perfect heading of 180° despite me pointing the nose anywhere between 150° and 210°. If makes lining up the landing really difficult and thus resulted in my crash. I don't remember this behaviour on my real Amiga 500, but that was 24 years ago so my memory may play tricks on me ;)

*Edit: the issue was caused by higher emulation speed of the CPU, when set to appropiate speed of actual hardware the issue is gone though the game will run much choppier.

Also worth mentioning is the music score which is based on samples rather than midi on the PC.

If you would like to try the game yourself without the need of setting up the WinUAE, here's a neat and tidy package bundled with F-19 Stealth Fighter: http://thecompany.pl/gra/Nighthawk+F-117A+Stealth+Fighter+2.0
If you see a streached screen after running the game just press F12, go to "Filter" and in "Aspect Ratio Corrction" drop box change "Disabled" to "Automatic".

Stealth Fighter Series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIku_oD9y-RCsNINpz1Z41kdTWdx4CFG8

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