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F-22 Lightning 2 IBM PC MS-DOS 1996 NovaLogic


F-22 Lightning II



NovaLogic: The Art of War released F-22 Lightning II for IBM PC MS-DOS in September of 1996. F-22 was designed and coded by Randy Casey.

In F-22 Lightning 2 players pilot the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor of the U.S. Air Force. F-22 Lightning 2 is notable for its virtual cockpit and full-screen multi-function displays.


The banking ability and general maneuverabilityof the F-22 Raptor is insane... before F-22 I never saw such hard banking in flight simulators.

F-22 Lightning 2 displays in square-pixel 256-color VESA 2.0 VBE SVGA 640x480. F-22 Lightning 2 employs page-flipping and a hazing routine that reduces texture-rendering demands. Graphics-wise, F-22 was the Quake of flight sims in 1996. 

F-22 Lightning 2 requires an i80486DX4-100 MHz CPU and 8 megs of RAM.

F-22 Lightning 2 music supports General MIDI, Sound Blaster 8-bit / OPL2, Sound Blaster 16-bit / OPL3 and Sound Blaster AWE-32. F-22 Lightning 2 digital audio supports Sound Blaster 1.0, Sound Blaster 2.0, Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster 16, Sound Blaster AWE-32, Microsoft Sound System, Crystal CS4232 / TBS2000.

F-22 Lightning 2 was distributed on 1x CD-ROM and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via F-22 Lightning 2 Installation Program. The install size is 33 megs and consists of 13 files. 350 megs of FMV is read from the CD-ROM.

F-22 Lightning 2 Features List


  • Five campaigns staged in theatres that range from Siberia to the Mekong delta
  • Gouraud-shaded texture-mapped rendering
  • Day and night missions
  • Desert, jungle, mountain and coastline environments
  • Drag, lift, thrust, weight, 
  • 3D virtual cockpit
  • 7x multi-function displays (MFDs) with intricate symbology
  • Instrument Landing System (ILS)
  • Boeing 767 AWACS support
  • Mission scoring, promotion points, promotions and medals
  • 1x-6x Time compression
  • 8x camera modes with pitch and roll
  • Wingman controls
  • Dolby Surround Sound
  • Multiplayer Deathmatch, coop & Raptor Air War
  • 2-player via serial null modem cable or modem
  • 8-player via LAN/IPX network

F-22 Lightning Campaigns


  • Training (Nellis AFB, Nevada)
  • Campaign One: Gambling on the Mekong
  • Campaign Two: Siberian Turncoats
  • Campaign Three: Iraqi Machinations
  • Campaign Four: Odessa Vacation
  • Campaign Five: Back to Africa

F-22 Lightning 2 Flight Maneuvers


  • Break Turn
  • Roll
  • Half-roll
  • Loop
  • Half-loop
  • Split S
  • Immelmann Turn
  • Scissors
  • Lead pursuit, Pure pursuit, Lag pursuit
  • Early turn, One-circle fight, two-circle fight, cooperative bracket

F-22 Lightning 2 Ordnance


  • M61A1 20mm Vulcan (six-barrel gatling gun-style cannon)
  • AIM-9X Sidewinder Air-to-air Short-range Infrared-homing missile
  • AIM-120C AMRAAM Radar-guided missile
  • JDAM MK 83 bomb
  • AN/APG-77 radar
  • AN/ALR-94 Electronic Counter-Measures (ECM)
  • Chaff
  • Flare

F-22 Lightning 2 Promotions


  • 1st Lieutenant
  • 1st promotion: Captain: 15,000 promotion points
  • 2nd promotion: Major: 30,000
  • 3rd promotion: Lt. Colonel: 55,000
  • 4th promotion: Colonel: 100,000
  • 5th promotion: Brigadier General: 160,000

F-22 Lightning 2 Allied Aircraft



F-22 Lightning 2 Enemy Aircraft



There are also hostile SAMs and anti-aircraft artillery.

How to take off in F-22 Lightning 2:

  • Hit the 0-key for full military power
  • Hit the Backspace key to engage afterburners
  • Pull back gently once you hit 160 knots
  • Hit the G-key to retract landing gear

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