F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0
F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0 is a 16 bit combat flight simulator coded by MPS Labs of MicroProse for IBM PC (1991) and Amiga (1993).
Nighthawk is the follow-up to and remake of MicroProse's classic, F-19 Stealth Fighter of 1988.
Nighthawk was designed by Jeff Briggs and coded by Joe Hellesen, Andy Hollis, Ed Fletcher, Greg Kreafle and David McKibbin. The lead coder was Joe Hellesen.
Nighthawk constitutes a solid incremental advancement on F-19 rather than a revolution in stealth-fighting simulation. Nighthawk is VGA stealth-fighting at its finest.
The MS-DOS 3.0 version of Nighthawk displays in 256-color VGA 320x200 whereas F-19 ran in 256-color VGA as well, but employed an EGA palette for 3D rendering. However, the expanded palette of F-117A only impacts the 2D bitmap presentation and sky color gradients; it has no effect on the polygonal graphics or even the cockpit. In fact, the cockpit in Falcon Flight Sim (1988) is graphically superior to Nighthawk even though it employs just 16 on-screen colors.
That said, Nighthawk is a more sophisticated simulation than Falcon or F-19. Also, its user interface was substantially improved in terms of presentation and tactility.
F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0 was distributed on 2x 5.25" 1.2MB DS HD floppy disks or 3x 3.5" 720kB DS DD diskettes.
As with F-19 Nighthawk features three levels of conflict but replaces the four original scenarios with six new ones.
F-117A Scenarios
- Central Europe, 1986
- Middle East, 1989
- Desert Storm: Iraq, 1991
- Vietnam, 1994
- Cuba, 1995
- Korea, 1997
F-117A Mission Types
- Air-to-air Missions
- Strike Missions
- Training Missions
F-117A Levels of Conflict
- Cold War
- Limited War
- Conventional War
Amiga version:
F-117A Stealth Fighter Armaments
- M61A1 20mm Vulcan (six-barrel gatling gun-style cannon)
- AIM-9M Sidewinder Air-to-air Short-range Infrared-homing
- AIM-120A AMRAAM Air-to-air Medium-range Radar-homing
- AGM-88A HARM Guided Missile
- Penguin-3 ASM Guided Missile
- AGM-84A Harpoon anti-ship Guided Missile
- AGM-65D Maverick thermal-imaging air-to-ground Guided Missile
- GBU-12 Paveway Laser-Guided glide bomb
- CBU-72 FAE Laser-Guided explosive bomb
- Mk20 Rockeye Re-Bomb
- Mk20 Rockeye II Laser-Guided cluster bomb
- Durandal Re-Bomb anti-runway
- ISC B-1 Minelets Re-Bomb
- Mk 82-1 Snakeye Re-Bomb
- Mk 35 Incendiary Cluster Re-Bomb
- Mk 82-0 Slick Free-fall Iron bomb
- Mk 122 Fireye Free-fall incendiary bomb
- CBU-72 FAE
- 135mm Infrared Reconnaissance cam
- 1,900 LBS. Fuel
F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0 manual written by Jeff Briggs: 180 pages.
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