Key points
- Amalgamation of Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters, Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters - NATO Fighters and Jane's US Navy Fighters '97.
- The most stable of the Windows ports of Advanced Tactical Fighters and US Navy Fighters.
Availability
- Disc 1 is needed for installation and playing the campaign. Disc 2 is used for the Reference menus to view information about the aircraft in the game.
Essential improvements
Official 1.02F patch
The 1.02F Patch provides improvements for multiplayer and enables the weapon view window to function properly. It also fixes game speed problem on modern systems.
Tackleberry's Patch
Tackleberry's Patch removes the disc check, fixes all images including bitmaps (.BMPs), ranks, and scroll menus, and fixes support for Windows Vista and 7 (though 8.1 and 10 were observed to work as well).
Rainbow Colors
Fighters Anthology uses DirectDraw and suffers from a rainbow colors, a common issue with older games. See Rainbow color problems in older games for a fix. Alternatively, you can try DXGL. However, the sound in DXGL only works on some rigs.[citation needed]
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
- Pilot profiles (
XXX.p
) from Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters Gold can be used.
Video
Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Music, Stall Warning, RWR, Engine, Weapon Lock, and Radio all have volume sliders, along with a Master slider. |
Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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All radio messages are subtitled. |
Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Network
Multiplayer types
Type |
Native |
Players |
Notes |
Local play |
|
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LAN play |
| 8 |
|
Online play |
| 4 |
Eight players are supported, but only in dial-up connections. Direct IP is limited to four. |
Connection types
Ports
Protocol |
Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
TCP |
1971 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
Issues unresolved
Crash to desktop
The game will rarely randomly freeze, invert colours and then crash to the desktop. There is no fix for this.
Other information
API
Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Fighters Anthology Tool Kit
The Fighters Anthology Tool Kit enables users to edit all variables in the entire game, change airbase locations on maps, extract LIBs and create custom LIBs.
Realism Patch
The Realism Patch adds additional jets, adds a custom anti-cheat system (multiplayer) and more.
Game files
All of the game files are stored in .lib files. There is no known software which can bulk extract files from them. The FATK application is not the only way to browse through them The tool LIBLOCK.exe can extract any and all library files from the default game or from any custom libraries created by the FA Toolkit. You can obtain these files, and custom libraries, at The Fighters Anthology Resource Center http://jkpeterson.net/fa/
System requirements
Windows |
|
Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
95 |
95 |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium 90 MHz
| Intel Pentium 166 MHz |
System memory (RAM) |
16 MB |
32 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
100 MB |
145 MB |
Video card (GPU) |
640x480 1 MB of VRAM DirectX 5 compatible
| 640x480 1 MB of VRAM DirectX 5 compatible |
Notes
References