Jane's Fighters Anthology
Developers | |
---|---|
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
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 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
System | Location |
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Windows |
Save game data location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | <path-to-game>\PltXXX.p[Note 1] |
- Pilot profiles (
XXX.p
) from Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters Gold can be used.
Video settings
Input settings
Audio settings
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
---|---|---|
Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
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 |
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 the only way to browse through them and can only able to extract individual files.
System requirements
Windows | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 95 |
Processor (CPU) | Pentium 90MHz | Pentium 166MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | 32 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 100MB | 145MB |
Video card (GPU) | 640x480-capable video card 1 MB of VRAM DirectX 5 compatible | 640x480-capable video card 1 MB of VRAM DirectX 5 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).