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Jane's Fighters Anthology

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Revision as of 01:23, 26 February 2012 by Zazaodh (talk | contribs) (Updated Infobox)

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Jane's Combat Simulations Fighters Anthology is an amalgamation of Advanced Tactical Fighters, Advanced Tactical Fighters - NATO Fighters and US Navy Fighters '97.

Operating systems

Fighters Anthology works without issue on Windows 95 and Windows 98. In Windows XP, the game runs slightly faster and the music does not work. In Windows 7, the game runs faster than on Windows XP and the music also does not work. For Windows 7, a batch file needs to created and used instead as the game is unable to load from the executable. Through WINE, the launcher and Jane's introduction both work but the game does not load. Windows 98 running in VirtualBox requires graphics drivers to be installed and set to at least 16 bit colours. VMWare installs the graphic drivers automatically for Windows 98.

Batch file

Copy and paste to a text editor. Name the file as FA.bat. Double click to run. 

rem First kill Explorer.exe, which messes up the colors
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe

rem Change to the application directory
cd C:\JANES\Fighters Anthology

rem run the application
FA.EXE

rem Wait for the game to quit, press Enter to continue
pause

rem Restart Explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
exit

Crash to desktop

Fighters Anthology will rarely randomly freeze, invert colours and then crash to the desktop. There is no fix for this.

Save Game Data

Default location for pilot profile: 

C:\JANES\Fighters Anthology\PltXXX.p

(Pilot profiles (XXX.p) from ATF Gold can be used)

1.02F patch

The 1.02F Patch provides improvements for multiplayer and enables the weapon view window to function properly.

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.

The FATK can be downloaded here: http://farc.3synergy.net/files.php

Game files

All of the game files are stored in .lib files. There is no known software which can extract them. The FATK is the only way to browse through them and is only able to extract individual files.

LHX

On CD one, a DOS game called LHX is included.

System Requirements

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Related games

Jane's US Navy Fighters; Jane's US Navy Fighters - Marine Fighters; Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters; Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters - NATO Fighters; Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters Gold; Jane's US Navy Fighters '97