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SVGA Harrier Assault SVGA Harrier was developed by Simis and published by Domark.in 1992. This was the first SVGA sim, which meant that instead of VGA graphics of 320 x 200 pixels, we now had 640 x 400. The visuals were similar to what we had previously only seen in military simulators and in a beautiful set of pastel colours. This sim became an unwitting participant in the censorship debate in Australia as the Catholic Teachers Federation, apparently eschewing the formality of reading the manual let alone playing the sim, asked for it to be banned on the basis it was offensive to the East Timorese! The flight model was very fluid. There were Indonesian F-16's and A-4 Skyhawks as well as C-130's to shoot down (or be shot down by!), and palm trees, huts and barracks to bomb. Because of the limited resources and the nature of the campaign, you felt really involved with the progress of your ground troops. Occasionally the fleet would come under air attack as well and you could watch the action from the "pri-fly". MiGMan thanks Peter Nilsson for the screenshots. Box Links A-4 Skyhawk A-4 Skyhawk Airdropping supplies SVGA Harrier by Domark and SIMIS Hydras Laser Guided Bombs Mk20 Rockeye HARM and SAM SAM and AAA Scissors Tarawa Terrain - Valleys Urban Terrain Troops HardwareI found it impossible to get this classic sim running under Windows 98, unfortunately it doesn't seem happy with 3D video cards. If you have an older conmputer with an S3 graphics card you should be able to run it.Hardware requirements 486, S3 Graphic card and PC DOS. 2004 - Aug - Koriel reported : "I got it running using dosbox.63 with a frontend made by D-Fend, link via dosbox. Used the wizard from the frontend, did not change anything, and off i flew. Only drawback is that my cougar throttle (and aaxis) are not being recognized, stick and rudder are ok. "
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The SAMs and AAA were very scary...the pucker factor increased ten-fold when you saw a smoke trail heading towards you! Ground units such as Hovercraft, landing craft, Tanks, APC's were included and they slugged it out with great explosions which generated persistent columns of smoke. Navigation got easier as the campaign progressed..... you just flew towards the smoke columns! READ ON |
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