The only flight sim game to have a working carrier deck crew, and it's 15 years old... ;(

@rixxy9204

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah the deck crew is fun bonus with people running around with the wands, and random stuff flying around you. Janes FA18 was good too but I couldn't get it to work on WIn 7. I got this working using DOSbox and haven't had issues..

@magicstix0r

9 жыл бұрын

I have jane's fa-18 running on win7 just fine...

@rixxy9204

9 жыл бұрын

magicstix0r my pre - install freezes at around 90% ran it as administrator does the same thing.

@lucasrayo1

5 жыл бұрын

dcs this year

@MrFarnanonical

3 жыл бұрын

not anymore :)

Nearly 20 years later, Eagle Dynamics is bring back the animated deck crew.

I actually worked on this game as a tester, so I'm somewhat familiar with its development and release. There was actually going to be a dynamic campaign, but it had to be scrapped in the final few months due to numerous bugs that couldn't be fixed in time. The virtual cockpit was also very over-ambitious for 1999 / 2000, and it's only now with things like the DCS series that we can really look around and press buttons as intended. Overall the release was a bit anticlimactic compared to what was originally planned and it just felt like more of a relief that it was "done". Still, it was amazing to be involved with, it was a genuinely excellent sim and I'll never forget the time I spent at DI. Great bunch of guys.

@lanimal2

8 жыл бұрын

+Stephen Marshall Is there anyway you could make a patch to fix the bugs ? :)

@mintsauce82

8 жыл бұрын

Nope, I was just a tester and I can''t code. Sorry!

@magicstix0r

8 жыл бұрын

+Stephen Marshall Jane's F-18 had a fully clickable virtual cockpit in 1998...

@Englishneo2k

7 жыл бұрын

I too was a tester - if you look in the credits i'm down as Lloyd Christmas as they forgot my surname and so someone told them it was Christmas, (Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber's surname... lol) Was great to play and test this when i was much younger. Great flight sim compared to what was out at the time, very ambitious and a great bunch of guys. PCs back then was the good old AMD K6/2 450 or PIII 500 era. I had the good old Saitek joystick and throttle. Network games were also good fun - testing of course... ;o)

@MyFavoriteDisease

6 жыл бұрын

magicstix0r - I-Magic's iF-22 may have been even earlier, 1997 I think.

I don't even have a clue how many hours I played on this but I played it for many years and loved every minute. AWESOME game.

I spent years playing it 14 hours a day and loved it so much. A very very very very hardcore accurate and detailed sim, and all that in 2000! People mention deck crew. They have no idea how its HUD, buttons, and all those utilities were accurate and detailed. I love it so much more than DCS. I wish they made it open source so people created mods for it.

1000000000000000x times more feeling than DCS.

Yeah... me too. Good old days. Thanks for commenting! ~C

This really is a pretty good sim and thanks chinkashh for throwin it up here on YT!! I actually got this to work with Windows 8 and my MSFFB 2 joystick, but I had to get the .exe to replace the original one. THe only thing is the instant action runs smooth, the rest of the single missions crash sometimes at the worst moments!!

@erikhendrych190

9 жыл бұрын

can you share a link for that .exe, please?

I remember this game from my childhood and to this day I still don't know how to play it haha. There were crashes in my game so I could never try the takeoff mission. This is the first time in my life that I'm seeing this. My game always started already in the air flying. I remember making the guy scare and scream by nose diving and then going up again

I remember this sim now that you post it. I really liked it. Now DCS is coming out with the Super-Carrier add-on. Wags the developer always wanted this since the Jane's F-18 Simulator back in the day.

I definitely had this one I fell in love with it I liked it better than I did Jane's f/a-18 and the hornet is my favorite plane.

Thank you for your comment! Nice to hear this. Carrier ops are the best in this sim indeed!

One of the first games I have played during my childhood... I missed this game.. :'(

My first flight game

They should remake games like this with the latest graphics. It was fun playing those days.

this is a good realistic game beside of Tornado,Falcon3,Longbow2,Strike Eagle 3,EF2000,F22TAW at this times

this game look insane good for a 2000 pc game

Yeah i buy this game when its released back in 00. I was indeed suprise the level of detail. And i think for game from that era, this one definitely on top of the fighter sim list

The reason I bought my first joystick 🕹️

Thanks for the memories! Jane's F/A-18, F-15 Eagle, and AH-64D Apache Longbow were back in the day (circa '97-'99) of real combat sims that had a 100+ page manual to read. Still have all three but haven't played them in years. Maybe one day I'll dust off some old components from an old gaming rig and load Windows 98SE and these games..err.. I mean SIMs again! What a shame these real combat sims aren't made anymore. I suppose nobody has the attention span anymore to deal with the complexity.

Didn't expect the Behind Enemy Lines audio at 5:28!

Still the best Hornet simulation, until DCS: F/A-18 release. It works under Windows 7 64bit, while Jane's F/A-18 can't start even under XP. GraphSim's Hornet 3.0 hangs up on the menu screen. Only Digital Integration's game can work under modern systems, the only thing to do is checking Win98 compatibility.

After all these years! Thanks alot! :D

Absolutey no doubt this was one of the best sims ever. Music, presentation, voice acting,flight dynamics and graphics were unbelievable and still well good enough today. And it could be frightening too. So exciting but also bloody hard. Funny too when the pilot keeps screaming when you fly too low. Man this is a fabulous sim. I have LOST my disc! Still its only £3.00 quid at Argos. Gonna get it again.

Thanks

That's a shitload of AMRAAMs!!!!

so much fun!! couldn't stop watching it, it did not looked like a 10 min video

Notice there are some mistakes in the manual. With little bit of "otaku" nature you can learn the game w/o manual. By simply being intrested on something, for example A Hornet, If you have ever before flied with it, you should be at least little bit familiar with it as how it works. By putting this simple, the Super Hornet is basically same as F-18c, but it has more advanced weapon and radar systems. Also it can carry more equipment. If you got some problem, shoot! ~C

Getting this once on GOG discounted sale.

I played it when i was 20. Now i am 41. Lol! Probably had to memorize more than 100 controls.

Just so you know. I don't have manual for this game either. My first realistic type of Hornet game was Empire Interactive's "F-18 3.0" After that, I have played almost every F-18 based flighsim there is. So when I jumped on 'teh F-18E's pilot seat, I felt like I was at home :P

I used to fail, i put flaps down first, that made the blast deflector come up. i just smacked straight into it.

I want to get this game. But after having to read and understand falcon's 800+ page manual, I dread repeating the experience.

I have this game and it is the best modern combat Flight Sim I ever played, it is as good as Falcon 4.0, just a couple of years older. The carrier ops in this game are the best!

Even DCS doesn't have animated deck or ground crews.

Look up vrsimulation for a realistic F/A-18E on Microsoft Flight Simulator X, It's called F/A-18E SuperBug now that the game you all have to get.

THIS IS THE MOST REALISTIC AIRPLAINE MILITARY GAME EVER. THE GRAPHICS FOR Year 2000 ARE GREAT...

Yup, it's classic :) But it's still hard even if you try ordering it..

I'm trying to make this work on a windows 10 system, and using dgvoodoo I was almost successful. The problem is the joystick - all buttons and axes work, aside the main 2 stick axes (x and y). The program does not detect them. I've already trying using the corrected "config.exe" file, which should fix the problem, but it persist. Any thought? was anyone able to make the joystick work?

Loved this game! Sadly can't find it anywhere anymore.

@IceAxe1940

7 ай бұрын

Five years late but if you're still looking for this game I found it on steam for around $9.99 USD

in the dogfight, if a enemywas behind you, you're killed

Awesome sim! I miss DI, Imagic, Microprose... :(

No clue how it works or if it even works on Vista.. I'll try to test it soon..

I could swear that some of these sounds are from 'Behind Enemy Lines'

It's a great game that you can get for free these days. Carrier ops are fun, but there's definitely a learning curve. the manual is like 200 pages. I bought bf4 and was bored in five minutes, so I really miss these kind of games. Arma 2 was fun but is now dead without Gamespy. Haven't tried Falcon 4 (BMS) but it looks good too.

LOL at 5:51! Ahahaha! Silliness aside, this looks like it was actually a pretty cool sim. The 2D cockpit appears very functional, especially the HUD.

Lmao! Thanks for this video. I bought this sim when it came out and I still have it. Loved flying this back in the day. I hope there's an F/A-18 sim somewhere in the not too distant future that would better Falcon 4.

@maxmark122

6 жыл бұрын

mrsiCkstar welp, there's the DCS Hornet coming out now

very good game

i remember picking this game up ages ago gr8 game awesome music.. unfortunatly... i lost it :(

My best friend bought this and hated it so much he gave it to me. I also hated it so played it max 2 times. Fast forward 25 years, I'm about to buy the DCS version, and hoping it's going to be different.

I played this a lot years ago. It’s nice and detailed and a heck of a game to play. Although it’s an easy game to play,

Yeah! Deck folks rock :P

Very good gameplay well done

Thank you! You're not the only one who haven't played this! Check your messages, info there! ~C

acctually those guys of the " air combat zone " use this sim =D im a Janes F/A-18 user and im going to try this one for sure !

"FIRING UP ENGINE".... JYEAH!!!!!!!

how can I play this game with current computers... 😩 With Windows 10 it's impossible? Have you got a solution please!?!🤞🤞🤞

I miss this game. I can't find it anywhere in the net :(

awesome, awesome to the max!

spaceship sims are coming back in near future.

I was not expecting Excalibolg.

I love the F-14 Tomcat, because, it's way faster, the F/A-18E/F is an okay plane.

This is amazing! How can it be that I have never played them? Can you tell me what musics you used?

Did you try it? It doesn't work on mine. Aww, i wanted to get this game on the go!

What's the music playing from 1:12, sounds like something out of splinter cell.

I have this game but I can't get past the mission planner! It quits on me! What am I missing?

If you want I will upload it! But do you can tell me, how I can play this game on vista?

i remember this game.. the original was janes f/a-18

=S the screen is just black in my pc when i try this one .... **shortcut already configured forwin 98 ** any ideas ?

Yeah!

İ was playing 5 yeras old in 1999

I bought it like 8 years ago :D

Graphix ? Fuck em! What matters is how realistic the simulator is!

Does the hornet really carry that many aim-120's??

@spitfirefrench

8 жыл бұрын

+breadturbo scarily yes it does lol

You mean the game closes itself? If so, try using compatibility mode. If you have Vista I don't know then. I need to test it myself on my Laptop when I get the time.

I played that game;D

If only BF3 had this kind of action!

never seen a flight simulator and mirrors edge music put together

Excelente juego para su época, alguien sabe como se configura para jugarlo en Windows 7?

@chinkashh Thanks! By the way you know where i can get a patch ? Cause the game is really laggy atm :/

HORNET LEADERRRRRRRR......(WAIT FOR ITTTT) FEET DRYYYYYYYY!!!!

@Skyreider Maybe I can find a way to give you the files straight from my disk?

nostalgic

Not to keen on the textures and the takeoff looks a lil rocket like, but I do like the animation of the "shooters"!! Wish FSX Acceleration had them :-)

@ajlusted Now that I know, you are my new Jesus. Is Digital Integration still together?

Now about carrier take offs...

.. but yet still, it's great fun!

I want to play it.Is there a link that is free.I want to download. Thanks

What's compatability mode? How to enable it?

Yeah. It looks simple enough on the map / mission planner, but after taking off.. well, the confusion only begins, lol. Waypoints on map are useful though, hehe. Although I admit smth. Returning back to the carrier for reload and taking off again, well, I get the feeling of a "broken" game sometimes, cuz there are way too many bugs, unfortunately. It's like the crewmen are made there to work only once during the first take off. And when rollin on deck, you always hit them and they "flip", lol.

@shozma Nice! Best of luck!

@combly7 I remember reading same thing back then, so yea.

dokuro-chan

ok so i just got the game and i wont to to the trainning misions and everytime when i go over to the aircraft handling and over to the first one on the aircraft handling and i press the commit button and the takeoff button and the screen takes me back to window and what im i doing wrong can some one help me with the probly?

@VisheshBangotra

5 жыл бұрын

I heard you boys are ripping on F-18s training finally paid off

Its on gog.com

i never got past the first missions :P

plllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllzzzzzzz how did you get this game pllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllzzzzzzzzz

Is the game name Jane f/a 18

Such a shame flight sims (Both flight and space) died out in the 90s.

LOL cool guy :D