Jane's Fighters Anthology

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Jane's Fighters Anthology

Developers
	Jane's Combat Simulations
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows	May 1, 1997

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
Windows

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\PltXXX.p

Pilot profiles (XXX.p) from Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters Gold can be used.

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)	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