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[The Niles]

Feel free to comment and discuss this game here. Also, if you have any useful tips or tricks don't hesitate to share them with the others! Thanks!

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[Data]

ah one of my favorite games.
Never finished a level though as I never got how to get the airplane to pick you up if you are finished.

One of the first games that I actually bought for my Atari ST back in the days.
I still have the box, the disks, manual etc as I do for some other ST games.

The game is like Ghost Recon, only in kinda isometric 2D. You get missions and you get to choose your equipment. You also choose 1 or 2 extra bags that are dropped somewhere along the map to resupply yourself, if you can reach them that is. You choose more or less where to be airdropped and pray that the wind doesn't take you far away. After that you slowly move upward and finish yoru mission.
The animation is not the best, but it is not bad considering when the game was made. The ST graphics were better, but, nothing spectacular even for that.
The game was a great fun to play and it was till the days of modern FPS tactical shooters, the best tactical shooter on any computer IMO.
This is not a shoot everything in sight game, you will be slaughtered if you take this like any other shoot 'em 'up game. It required patience, thinking, and luck.
One of my favourite actions was to sneak inside a ditch and slowly crawl my way behind an enemy soldier and (to be quiet) use my knife to "get rid of him". Excellence in gaming!




Hmm, I need to register one day soon.

Guys, finding this version of Airborne Ranger was a huge happy moment! I'm ex-Army and we played this in both the Commodore and PC version for thousands of hours in our barracks in Germany.

I just found Ancient Art of War on the site, it just keeps getting better.

Thanks,

Sgt Brunson

[Data]

finally figured out the controls. They don't work in dosbox 0.63 though.
f10 run
f9 map
backspace medkit
7 timebomb 15 second

f1-f7 gun/granates/rocket/knife
return shoot
space crawl-standup toggle

I loved this game on my commodore 64/128.
Of course, this runs waaaay too fast to play. Anyone know of a way to slow it down?

[goblins]

DOSBOX or sourceforge.net and search for emulators for commodore 64 or atari that should run the game at normal speed.

[TrashCan]

Originally posted by Data@Mar 15 2005, 09:58 AM
finally figured out the controls. They don't work in dosbox 0.63 though.

I'm having no problems using DOSBOX 0.63. All the keys work just fine. I also have some extra keys to share with y'all .
F1 = Gun
F2 = Grenade
F3 = Missile Launcher
F4 = Knife
F9 = Map
F10 = Run/Walk

1 = Set time to 10 sec (If you want the heli to pick you up)
5 = Set timebomb to 5 second delay
6 = Set timebomb to 10 second delay
7 = Set timebomb to 15 second delay

Spacebar = Crawl/Walk
Enter = Use weapon
Backspace = Use medkit

[Lord_Scather]

Mo'Slo too does the job.........

Man!!! I played this game over and over again in an old XT PC with Hercules monitor and no Hard disk , just the floppy 5,1/4 . This brings good memories!!!!!!