F29 Retaliator Digital Image Design, 1989

F29 Retaliator 1989

F29 Retaliator is a 16 bit combat flight simulator released by Digital Image Design for the Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC MS-DOS (1989-1991).

F29 Retaliator was conceived and designed by Martin Kenwright. The 1989 Amiga version was programmed by Phil Allsopp; the 1989 Atari ST version by Russell Payne; the 1990 IBM PC version by Jas C. Brooke.

In F29 Retaliator, the player can choose to pilot the Lockheed F-22 Advanced Tactical Fighter or the Grumman F-29 Next Generation Tactical Fighter.

While not necessarily the best flight sim on ST, Amiga or IBM PC, F29 Retaliator had the smoothest 3D graphics from 1987-1991. Even on IBM PCs F29 Retaliator's engine was the polygon-pusher until the advent of Falcon 3.0.

The player can choose from four scenarios (locations), and there are 90 missions in total.

• American Desert
• Pacific Scenario
• Middle East Conflict
• European Battleground

F29 Retaliator Armaments

• AIAAM 196 Fire Bolt
• AMRAAM AIM 130-A Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile
• AIM 9M-R Sidewinder
• AIM 132 Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile
• Backwinder-9X
• MRASM AGM 190K Medium-Range Air-to-Surface Missile (Cruise Missile)
• ASLAM BDM Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile
• AGM-1 Maverick air-to-ground missile
• CSW Conventional Stand-Off Weapon
• 220 Fuel Pod

How to take off

• Increase throttle to 50% with + key
• Hit B to disengage breaks
• Increase throttle to 80-90%
• Pull back to take off at 200 MPH
• Hit G key to retract landing gear before hitting 300 MPH

The IBM PC version of F29 Retaliator was distributed on 1x 3.5" 720kB diskette or 2x 5.25" 360kB floppy disks. The install size is 680K. F29 Retaliator displays in 16-color EGA, VGA or Tandy graphics mode.

See also: Combat Flight Simulators --- WinUAE Amiga Emulator --- Best Amiga Games.