Air-Strike is the game I have been working. It is for DOS only, using the excellent Allegro library by Shawn Hargreaves and contibutors. Since Allegro is now available for DirectX and Linux, it ought to be quite easy to port to these platforms, so I might do this some time.

Air-Strike is based on a game from several years ago called Night Raid. The idea was that you had a turret in the middle at the bottom of the screen, with a gun attached, and you could change the angle of the gun with the mouse. As planes flew past overhead, letting out troops with parachutes as they went, you had to shoot at everything, in order to stop the troops landing.

I thought it was a great game, but it quickly became boring (at least in the shareware version I had) as it only had one weapon and a couple of types of aeroplane.

So, teaming up with Scott Griffiths who drew most of the graphics, I set about writing own version, which would have all the stuff I wanted in it.

Features:

• 6 Weapons: Machine-gun, double machine-gun, laser, flame-thrower, grenade launcher and homing missiles!
• 4 types of aircraft: planes dropping men, planes dropping bombs, UN planes dropping extra weapons and helicoptors transporting cows
• 4 different scenarios: Green rolling hills, fires of Hell, snow-capped mountains and the Moon
• Prompts translated into French, German, Spanish and Esperanto
• Flame effects, as in the picture
• Superfluous amounts of blood
• Good for relieving stress

Thanks also go to Jacob Schramm for his improvements to the German translations.

Code © 1997 Richard Collins
Graphics © 1997 Scott Griffiths & Richard Collins

• ‘air-strike.zip’, 655K
  Get Air-Strike for DOS/DOS box in Windows
• ‘air-strike-src.zip’, 36K
  C source-code for Air-Strike

• Delorie Software
  Authors of DJGPP, a free 32-bit compiler for DOS, based on GCC.
• Shawn Hargreaves' Site
  Main author of Allegro, a free game programming library for DJGPP.
• The Programming Sharehouse
  Directory of programming tutorials, source code files, links, articles, programs, games, tools, tips, and FAQs – covering many programming languages and topics.

Email: richard@rejc2.co.uk

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