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Jane's Combat Simulations ATF Advanced Tactical Fighters IBM PC MS-DOS Electronic Arts 1996


Jane's ATF: Advanced Tactical Fighters



Electronic Arts released Jane's ATF: Advanced Tactical Fighters for IBM PC MS-DOS 5.0 in April of 1996. Jane's ATF is the sequel to U.S. Navy Fighters of 1994. Jane's ATF was designed by Andre Gagnon and Brent Iverson.

Jane's ATF Fighter Aircraft


In Jane's ATF players can pilot seven different advanced tactical fighters, including thrust-vectoring and STOVL aircraft (vertical takeoff as per the Harrier jump-jet).

  • Lockheed Martin F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter
  • Northrop Grumman B-2A Spirit stealth bomber
  • Rockwell Dasa X-31 EFM vectored thrust
  • Northrop Grumman X-29 FSW forward step wings
  • Lockheed Martin X-32 ASTOVL vectored thrust
  • Dassault Rafale C next generation fighter
  • Lockheed Martin / Boeing F-22 Raptor vectored thrust
  • General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon [X]
  • Saab JAS 39 Gripen [X]
  • EF2000 EuroFighter [X]
  • Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker [X]
  • Sukhoi Su-33 Flanker D
  • McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II
  • U.S. Navy Grumman F-14B Tomcat
  • McDonnell Douglas F/A-18D Hornet
  • Royal Navy Sea Harrier FRS.2
  • Yakovlev Yak-141 Freestyle-A
  • Lockheed Martin / Boeing AC-130U Spectre Hercules-style gunship

[X] denotes NATO Fighters expansion [1]

Jane's ATF is also notable for its light-sourced and Gouraud-shaded texture-mapped terrain. In addition, Jane's ATF renders small ground details such as individual trees and soldiers.

Jane's ATF Technical


Jane's ATF displays in non-standard square-pixel 256-color VGA 320x240 or square-pixel 256-color VESA SVGA 640x480, 800x600 or 1024x768.

Jane's ATF recommended system specifications are i80486DX4 100 MHz CPU, 490K of free conventional RAM, 6,900K of XMS RAM and 1 meg of vRAM. Jane's ATF is a Rational Systems DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time.

Jane's ATF digital music supports AdLib Gold, ATI Stereo FX, Pro Audio Spectrum 16, Pro Audio Spectrum 8, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16, Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster Clone and Turtle Beach MultiSound.

Jane's ATF MIDI music supports AdLib, AdLib Gold, ASC MediaMaster Synth, MPU-401 General MIDI Synth, Pro Audio Spectrum, Pro Audio Spectrum 16 OPL3, Roland LAPC-1, Roland MT-32, Roland Sound Canvas, Sound Blaster AWE-32, Sound Blaster Clone, Sound Blaster Pro OPL2 and Sound Blaster Pro OPL3. 

Jane's ATF controls support keyboard, standard analogue joystick, Thrustmaster F-16 FLCS, F-16 TQS, RCS, FCS\PFCS and WCS mk II.

Jane's ATF: Advanced Tactical Fighters was distributed on 1x CD-ROM and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Jane's ATF: Advanced Tactical Fighters Install. The install size with MIDI music is 28 megs and consists of 29 files whereas the install size with digitial music is 61 megs and consists of 30 files.

Jane's ATF Features List


  • In-game 10-screen reference media for each ATF (photos, 3D model, data)
  • 2x campaigns/war theatres: Egypt in 1998 and Russia in 2002
  • Create Quick and Pro missions
  • 20x single missions in Egypt, France and Russia
  • 10x multiplayer missions and 1x training mission
  • Low, Medium and High Detail texture-mapped terrain
  • Tailorable terrain and object detail levels
  • Toggleable textured sky, ocean and land
  • Toggleable Gouraud shading, light-source shading and texture-mapping
  • Digitized sprite explosions, splashes and smoke trails
  • Slow-motion and 1x-8x Time compression
  • Tailorable sound and music volume
  • Virtual cockpit: in-cockpit panning and zooming
  • Toggleable cockpit rearview mirrors
  • 4x Rotatable and pannable external views
  • Flight controls: Flight Stick, Rudder Pedals, Throttle, Vectored Thrust
  • Aircraft maneuvering: Pitch, Roll, Yaw
  • Short Takeoff, Vertical Takeoff, Landing
  • Wind and Turbulence
  • Stalls, stall recovery, spins, spin recovery
  • Instrument Landing System (ILS)
  • Wingman commands
  • 2-player serial null modem and modem play
  • 2-8 players in Net Play

Jane's ATF - NATO Fighters [1]


Electronic Arts released Jane's Combat Simulations: ATF - NATO Fighters in 1996. NATO Fighters is an expansion for Jane's ATF. NATO Fighters adds the Baltic campaign (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and four ATFs:


NATO Fighters is run via its own NATO.exe.

NATO Fighters was distributed on 1x CD-ROM and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Jane's Combat Simulations: ATF - NATO Fighters Expansion Disc install. The install size is 20 megs and consists of 10 files.
 

Jane's ATF Flight Maneuvers


  • Break Turn
  • Barrel Roll
  • Scissors
  • Spiral Dive
  • High Speed Yo-Yo
  • Low Speed Yo-Yo
  • Rollaway
  • Immelmann turn
  • Split-S
  • Thrust vectoring turn
  • Herbst (post-stall)
  • J-Turn
  • Hover

Jane's ATF Ordnance


Jane's ATF Guns & General


  • M-61 20mm Vulcan six-barrel gatling gun-style cannon
  • GAU-8, GAU-12, GAU-13, GsH 30, Aden
  • Electronic countermeasures (ECM Jamming)
  • Chaff
  • Flares

Jane's ATF Air-intercept missiles (long-range)


  • AIM-7 Sparrow
  • AIM-9MB, 9MM, 9MX Sidewinder
  • AIM-54C Phoenix
  • AIM-120 AMRAAM
  • PL-10, PL-7, AEMP-1EM Pulse

Jane's ATF Air-to-air missile (short-range)


  • AA-2 Atoll, AA-6 Acrid, AA-8 Aphid, AA-9 Amos
  • AA-10 Alamo, AA-11 Archer, AA-12 AMRAAMSKI
  • MICA, R-440, R-530, R-550

Jane's ATF Air-to-ground missiles


  • AGM-65G Maverick
  • AGM-88 HARM
  • AGM-84A Harpoon
  • AGM-84E SLAM
  • AM-39 Exocet
  • AS-7 Kerry, AS-14 Kedge, AS-15 Kent
  • AS-16 Kickback, AS-30

Jane's ATF Bombs, Rockets & Anti-tank missiles


  • GBU-10 & GBU-27 bombs
  • MK-82 & MK-84 bombs
  • LAU-10 & LAU-61 rocket
  • AT-2 Swatter Anti-tank missile
  • AT-12 Swinger Anti-tank missile

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