Birds of Prey
Electronic Arts released Birds of Prey for Amiga in 1991. Developed by Argonaut Software of the U.K., Birds of Prey took four years to develop. Amiga Birds of Prey was programmed by Christopher Humphries and Peter Warnes, drawn by Danny Emett, Herman Serano and Tom Ashton, and composed by Giles Goddard.
Birds of Prey is notable for its representation of 40 fighter and bomber aircraft, 27 of which are pilotable by players. Birds of Prey aircraft includes supersonic, subsonic, fixed-wing, swing-wing, land-based, carrier-based, stealth, propeller-driven, jet-propelled, rocket-powered, multi-engined and STOVL, aka Short Take-Off & Vertical Landing (e.g., the Harrier jump jet).
Birds of Prey Features List
- NATO versus Soviets
- Icon-driven and dropdown menu-driven interface with hardware mouse cursor control
- 40x aircraft represented: 27x pilotable aircraft & 14x Soviet aircraft
- Rotating 3D models & detailed stat readouts for every single aircraft
- 12x scenarios
- 3x terrain-types: Green fields, Desert, Arctic
- 9x mission-types such as bombing, dogfighting, escorts, reconnaissance & drops
- 4x difficulty levels: Rookie, Pilot, Squadron Leader, Wing Commander
- 2x Flight models: Real Flight or Easy Flight
- HUD with 16x flight, 8x radar, 6x navigation, 6x landing & 9x bombing indicators
- Instrument panel with 7x instruments, 9x flight instruments & 4x MFDs
- Zoomable & truckable Tactical Map that can be shrunk or expanded in real-time
- 4x in-cockpit views and 4x zoomable external views with 360° rotation
- 9x in-cockpit viewing angles (numpad)
- Independently toggleable dots, fields, dithering, coasts, roads, trees, hills
- Toggleable weapon models (bombs, missiles)
- Switchable between Full or Simple bases & aircraft carriers
- Toggleable graduated sky & land (sky-color gradients: PC version only)
- Toggleable HUD and drop-away cockpit for full-screen views
- 4x start-times: morning, noon, evening and midnight
- Pitch, Roll, Yaw, Gravity, Lift, Thrust, Drag
- Taxiing, Takeoff, Vertical Takeoff, Landing
- Stalls, stall recovery, spins, spin recovery
- Briefings & debriefings
Amiga Birds of Prey displays in 32-color 320x200, requires 1 meg of RAM and was distributed on 2x 880kB diskettes. It was not installable to hard disk drive.
Birds of Prey IBM PC MS-DOS 1992
Electronic Arts ported the Amiga version of Birds of Prey to IBM PC MS-DOS 3.3 in 1992. PC Birds of Prey was programmed by Chris Sawyer and Peter Warnes, drawn by Danny Emett, Herman Serano and Tom Ashton, and composed by David Whittaker.
PC Birds of Prey displays in 4-color CGA 320x200, 16-color EGA 320x200 and 16-color or 256-color VGA 320x200.
PC Birds of Prey requires an i80286 CPU and 640K of free conventional memory. PC Birds of Prey can detect and utilize EMS memory.
PC Birds of Prey audio supports Roland LAPC-1, Roland MT-32, Sound Blaster, AdLib, Tandy, PC Speaker Normal and PC Speaker Samples. PC Birds of Prey supports mouse, keyboard or Flight Stick flight control (e.g, Thrustmaster).
PC Birds of Prey was distributed on 1x 3.5" 720kB DD diskette and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Electronic Arts Install Program. The install size is 420K and consists of 13 files.
How to take off in Birds of Prey
- Hit J-key to ignite engines
- Hit (=)-key a few times to slightly increase throttle
- Taxi out of hangar to runway with Del/Help keys (rudder)
- Increase throttle to 100%
- (\)-key = full throttle
Birds of Prey NATO & Allied Aircraft
- British Aerospace Hawk Mk.66
- British Aerospace Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.Mk 3 (STOVL: Harrier jump jet)
- Boeing B-52H Stratofortress
- Boeing 747-400 Jumbo Jet
- Dassault-Breguet Mirage F.1E
- Dassault-Breguet Rafale A
- Fairchild A-10A
- General Dynamics F-111
- General Dynamics F-16C
- Grumman F-14A+ Tomcat
- Grumman X-29
- Lockheed C-130H-30 Hercules
- Lockheed F-104S Starfighter
- Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
- Lockheed TR-1A
- Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk
- McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom
- McDonnell Douglas F-15E Eagle
- McDonnell Douglas KC-10A
- McDonnell Douglas/Northrop F/A-18A Hornet
- North American: X-15A
- Northrop: F-5E Tiger
- Northrop F-20A Tiger Shark
- Northrop B-2 Stealth Bomber
- Panavia Tornado F Mk.3 (ADV)
- Rockwell B-1B
- Saab JAS-39 Gripen
Birds of Prey Soviet Aircraft
- Antonov An-124 Condor
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 BIS Fishbed N
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 Flogger G
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 Foxbat E
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-27 Flogger J
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum A
- Sukhoi Su-21 Flagon F
- Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer D
- Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot
- Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker B
- Tupolev Tu-95 Bear G
- Tupolev Tu-26 Backfire B
- Yakovlev Yak-38 MP Forger A (STOVL)
Birds of Prey Ordnance
NATO & Allied Air-to-air Missiles of Birds of Prey
- AIM-9P Sidewinder
- SA Matra Magic R.550
- AIM-7M Sparrow
- Hughes AIM-120A AMRAAM
- BAe/BGT AIM-132 ASRAAM
- AIM-54A Phoenix
- BAe Dynamics Skyflash
NATO & Allied Air-to-surface Missiles of Birds of Prey
- AGM-88A HARM
- Hughes AGM-65 Maverick
- Rockwell AGM-114 Hellfire
- SA Matra Durandal
- Martin Marietta Bullpup
- McDonnell Douglas Astronautics AGM-84A Harpoon
- Aerospatiale AM.39 Exocet
- BAe Dynamics Sea Eagle
- MBB Kormoran
NATO & Allied Bombs of Birds of Prey
- Mk 82, Mk 83 & Mk 84 general-purpose bombs
- Paveway LGB Smart Bomb
- Rockeye II Mk 20 Cluster Bomb
- Thomson Brandt Armaments/SA Matra BLG 66 Belouga Bomb
- Hughes Wasp WAAM Wide-Area Anti-Armor Munitions (12x homing missiles)
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