Jane's Fighters Anthology
Developers | |
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Jane's Combat Simulations | |
Publishers | |
Electronic Arts | |
Release dates | |
Windows | May 1, 1997 |
⤏ Go to series page | |
US Navy Fighters | 1994 |
Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters | 1996 |
Jane's AH-64D Longbow | 1996 |
Jane's US Navy Fighters '97 | 1996 |
Jane's Longbow Gold | 1997 |
688(I) Hunter/Killer | 1997 |
Jane's Fighters Anthology | 1997 |
Jane's Longbow 2 | 1997 |
Jane's WWII Fighters | 1998 |
Jane's F-15 | 1998 |
Jane's Israeli Air Force | 1998 |
Jane's Fleet Command | 1999 |
Jane's USAF | 1999 |
Jane's F/A-18 | 2000 |
Jane's Attack Squadron | 2002 |
Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters | 2011 |
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
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Includes LHX Attack Chopper on disc one. |
- Disc 1 is needed for installation and playing the campaign. Disc 2 is used for the Reference menus to view information about the aircrafts in the game.
Essential improvements
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.
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.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Save game data location
System | Location |
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- Pilot profiles (
XXX.p
) from ATF Gold can be used.
Video settings
Input settings
Audio settings
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | ||||
LAN play | 8 | |||
Online play | 4 | Eight players are supported, but only in dial-up connections. Direct IP is limited to four. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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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
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.
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 the only way to browse through them and can only able to extract individual files.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | Windows 95 | Windows 95 |
Processor (CPU) | Pentium 90MHz | Pentium 166MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | 32MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 100MB | 145MB |
Video card (GPU) | 640x480-capable video card 1MB of VRAM DirectX 5 compatible | 640x480-capable video card 1MB of VRAM DirectX 5 compatible |