NATO EuroFighter Typhoon
Digital Image Design of the U.K. released EF2000 in 1995 for IBM PC MS-DOS, Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. EF stands for EuroFighter aka NATOs EF Typhoon.
EF2000 is the follow-up to TFX of 1993, which was the follow-up to F29 of 1989. In addition, two EF2000 developers programmed Falcon of 1988/89 for ST/Amiga (Colin Bell and Russell Payne).
From F29 to EF2000, Digital Image Design's flight models and rendering engines always seemed smoother to me than those of most other flight sims of 1989-1995. Their color schemes, soundscapes and user interfaces were often superior as well.
EF2000 features Beyond Visual Range combat (BVR), strategic 3D wargaming engine (WARGEN), virtual cockpit, realistic soundscape and 4 million square kilometers of texture-mapped terrain.
EF2000 requires an i80486DX-66 MHz, 512K of free conventional RAM and 5 megs of EMS RAM, but a Pentium 90 MHz and 16 megs of RAM is recommended. EF2000 is a Rational Systems DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time. EF2000 employs the math coprocessor of iDX CPUs. [1]
EF2000 Features List
- Dogfighting and Air-to-ground combat
- DID War Generator aka WARGEN (four levels of command-based AI)
- 3 environments: fjords of Norway, marshes of Finland and mountains of the North Cape
- Aerodynamics: Lift, Gravity, Thrust, Drag, G Force
- Pitch, yaw and roll
- Subsonic and supersonic turns
- Take off, land, climb, dive, roll, bank, stall
- ECR-90 Radar, JTIDS, IRST, DASS and TIALD
- Maverick Aiming System
- Moving Map Display (MMD)
- Flight Assistance Systems (auto-pilot, auto-throttle)
- Information Status Displays and Stores Display (ordnance)
- Aircraft Warning System
- Digital Terrain System
- 6 in-cockpits views (interpolated virtual cockpit)
- 3 MFD displays
- 5 zoomable external views and 4 wingman views
- Satellite God's eye view, flyby view and browse plane view
- 4 target views and 2 weapon views
- Realistic soundscape: digitized sound effects and sampled speech
- 2-4 player network play (4-8 in Windows)
EF2000 Flight Maneuvers
- Break
- Scissors
- Vertical scissors
- High G barrel roll
- Rollaway
- High Yo-yo
- Low Yo-yo
- Counter low yo-yo
- Immelmann Turn
- Slowing forward velocity
- Barrel roll attack
- Double attack
- Two on one bracket
- Two on two bracket
- Two on one drag
- Two on two drag
- Sandwich
- Defensive split
EF2000 Ordnance
- Mauser BK-27 27mm revolver cannon
- AIM-9M Sidewinder Air-to-air Short-range Infrared-homing missile
- AIM-120 AMRAAM Air-to-air Medium-range Radar-homing missile
- AIM-132 ASRAAM Advanced Short Range Air-to-air missile
- S-225 LRAAM Medium-range air-to-air missile radar-guided
- Drop-tanks
- MK 82 & 83 Slick Free-fall Iron bomb
- GBU-12/16 Paveway Laser-Guided glide bomb
- CRV-7 Rocket
- AGM-65D Maverick thermal-imaging air-to-ground Guided missile
- Durandal Re-Bomb anti-runway cratering munition
- BL-755 Cluster bomb
- ARM Anti-radiation missile
- Sea Eagle anti-ship missile
EF2000 was distributed 1x CD-ROM and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via EF2000 Install and EF2000 Configuration. The install size is 44 megs and consists of 63 files.
EF2000 MIDI supports General MIDI, Ensoniq SoundScape. Gravis UltraSound MIDI Synth, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster AWE-32, Sound Blaster Pro New, Sound Blaster Pro Old, Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum Old, Pro Audio Spectrum Plus/16, AdLib Music Synthesizer Card, AdLib Gold Music Synthesizer Card, ESS Technology ES688 FM Audio, ES Technology ES1688, ES1788 and ES1888 Enhanced FM Audio, Generic Yamaha OPL3-based FM Music Synthesizer, Roland MT-32 MIDI with MPU-401 MIDI Interface, Tandy 3-voice music, IBM Internal Speaker music.
EF2000 digitial audio supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16, Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster AWE-32, Roland RAP-10, Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum, Gravis UltraSound, New Media Corporation WaveJammer digital audio, Ensoniq SoundScape and ESS Technology ES688 digital Audio.
EF2000 control supports mouse, keyboard, standard analogue joystick, joystick with throttle, Thrustmaster Weapon Control System, Thrustmaster Flight Control System, Thrustmaster F-16 Control System and Thrustmaster Throttle Quadrant System.
[1] Windows 95 DirectX 3.0 EF2000 requires a Pentium 75 MHz and 16 megs of RAM, a but Pentium 120 MHz and 32 megs of RAM is recommended.
EF2000 Manual: 286 pages.
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