Red Baron IBM PC MS-DOS 1990 Dynamix

Red Baron 1990

Dynamix released Red Baron on December 31 of 1990 for IBM PC MS-DOS 5.0. Red Baron was directed and designed by Damon Slye. The lead programmer of Red Baron was Paul Bowman, the flight model was programmed by Damon Slye and the shell programmer was David McClurg. The lead 3D graphician of Red Baron was Cyrus Kanga.

Red Baron is notable for its realistic WWI dogfighting, smooth flat-shaded rendering engine and professional presentation.

Red Baron was distributed on 2x 3.5" 1.44MB HD diskettes, 3x 3.5" 720kB DS DD diskettes or 3x 5.25" 1.2 MB DS HD floppy disks. Red Baron installs to hard disk drive via Dynamix Start Smart. The install size is 2.4 megs and consists of 32 files.

Red Baron audio supports Tandy TX, Tandy TL, Roland MT-32, Roland LAPC-1, AdLib Music Synthesizer, Sound Blaster and PS/1 Audio Card.

Red Baron controls support mouse, keyboard or analogue joystick.

Red Baron Features

• Flat-shaded real-time 3D graphics
• 256-color VGA 320x200
• Realistic World War I dogfighting simulator
• 3Space terrain engine
• Flight controls: altimeter, compass, fuel gauge, air speed indicator, tachometer, oil pressure gauge, inclinometer
• Flight physics: roll, pitch, yaw
• Take off, landing, spins, spin recovery, stall, stall recovery
• Fire Vickers machine gun / unjam machine gun and drop bombs
• Realism: Sun Blind Spot, Realistic Weather, gun jams, Blackouts, Carburetor Freezes, limited fuel/ammo
• 28 different WWI aircraft
• 40+ missions 1915-1918
• 5x regions
• 3x difficulty levels
• Time-compression
• 6x cockpit views
• 7x external views
• Fighters, bombers, zeppelins, observation balloons

Red Baron manual written by Jerry Luttrell: 111 pages.

Red Baron War Map of the Western Front: Dunkirk Region, London Region, Paris Region, Somme Region, Verdun Region.

Red Baron Flight Maneuvers

• Dive
• Zoom or Zoom-climb
• Barrel Roll
• Half-loop
• Loop
• Immelmann Turn
• Retournement
• Split-S
• Side-slip
• Side-turn

German Aircraft of Red Baron

• Fokker E.III "Eindecker"
• Albatros D.II
• Albatros D.III
• Albatros D.V and D.Va
• Pfalz D.III
• Fokker Dr.I "Triplane"
• Fokker D.VII
• Aviatik C.I
• Roland C.II "Whalefish"
• Rumpler C.IV
• Gotha G.IV
• Junkers J.I

British Aircraft of Red Baron

• Airco D.H.2 "The Spinning Incinerator"
• Sopwith Pup
• Sopwith Triplane "Tripehound"
• S.E.5a
• Sopwith Camel
• Sopwith Snipe
• B.E.2 "Quirk"
• F.E.2b "Fee"
• R.E.8 "Harry Tate"
• Bristol Fighter "Brisfit"
• Handley Page 0/100 & Handley Page 0/400
• Airco D.H.4

French Aircraft of Red Baron

• Morane-Saulnier Type N Bullet
• Nieuport 17
• Spad 7
• Spad 13

Red Baron Mission Builder IBM PC 1992

Dynamix released Red Baron Mission Builder for IBM PC MS-DOS in 1992. Red Baron Mission Builder was designed by Christopher Shen, drawn by and Jarrett Jester and programmed by Steve VanDevender and Joe Wingard.

Red Baron Mission Builder was distributed on 1x 3.5" 720kB DS DD diskette. The original hard disk drive install size becomes 3 megs and consists of 84 files.

cf.

• A-10 Tank Killer IBM PC MS-DOS Dynamix 1989
• Aces of the Pacific IBM PC MS-DOS Dynamix 1992
• Knights of the Sky IBM PC 1990 MPS Labs Microprose

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