Apache Longbow
Apache Longbow was released by Digital Integration in September of 1995 for IBM PC MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 95. In Apache players pilot the Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter.
Graphics-wise Apache is most notable for its low-altitude geometric detail, which is Gouraud-shaded. Apache displays in non-standard square-pixel 256-color VGA 320x240 or square-pixel 256-color VESA SVGA 640x480. Explosions and smoke trails are sprite-based.
Apache requires i80486DX-33 MHz, 512K of free conventional RAM, 8 megs of RAM and 1 meg of vRAM. Apache will not run on <i386 because Apache is a Rational Systems DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time.
Apache was distributed on 1x CD-ROM and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Apache DOS Installation Program. A full install size is 40 megs and consists of 1,042 files.
Apache digitized audio supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16, Sound Blaster Pro and Pro Audio Spectrum, Ensoniq SoundScap, Gravis UltraSound WaveJammer, ESS Technology ES688 and Roland RAP-10.
Apache control supports mouse, keyboard, standard analogue joystick, Flight Stick Pro, Thrustmaster Flight Control System, Thrustmaster Weapon Control System, Thrustmaster F-16 FLCS, Virtual Pilot Pro and Gravis Phoenix.
Apache Features List
- Training at Fort Hood, Texas
- Three campaigns: Yemen, Cyrpus and Korea
- Arcade and Realistic flight models
- Three controls: Collective (throttle stick), Tail Rotor (pedals), Cyclic (flight stick)
- 3 rotatable internal cockpit views
- 8 rotable and zoomable external views
- 3 zoomable TADS System viewing modes: Direct View Optics (DVO), Forward Looking Infra-red (FLIR), Day TV
- Tailorable time-compression
- Voiced narrative during briefings
- In-flight sampled speech and digitized sound effects
- Full manual accessible in-game
- FMV cutscenes
- 16 player network play or direct link null modem cable
- 2-player direct-link (leader/wingman or pilot/gunner)
Apache Longbow Flight Maneuvers
- Taxiing
- Take-off to hover
- Hover to forward flight
- Turning
- Slowing to hover
- Landing
- Sideways and rearwards flight
- Loops and rolls
- Torque turns
- Autorotation
Apache Longbow Ordnance
- M230 30mm chain gun autocannon
- Stinger IR missile
- Hellfire AGM114A laser-guided missile
- Hellfire AGM114B radar-guided missile
- Hydra-pods: Hydra rockets with M261 and M255 warheads
- Chaff
- Flare
- Electronic countermeasures (ECM)
- IR jammer
Apache was project lead by Rod Swift. No fewer than 11 people were involved in the design of Apache: Kevin Bezant, Robert Caulfield, Todd Gibbs, Malcolm Harwood, Robin Heydon, Dave Marshall, Nick Mascall, Dave Proctor, Matthew Smith, Rod Swift and Matthew Thomas.
Apache audio was processed Richard Joseph, its sound effects were composed by Allister Brimble, and its music was composed by David Punshon and Richard Wells.
Apache manual written by Dave Marshall: 87 pages.
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