Amiga Longplay Wings of Fury
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Published 2010-12-09
Played by: Eino
Wings of Fury is a classic Amiga game and most Amiga owners have played it at least once. Fun game to play every now and then for a while, but boring in a long run.
In the beginning of a game difficulty level is chosen. There are three missions for each after which promoted to next level. I completed the first and the last difficulty levels. After completion of the last captain mission the game loops back to first captain mission. I recorded this video with the new experimental re-recording feature of WinUAE and the input file was unfortunately broken after the second captain mission. There are no new features in the third mission and no ending so it would be pointless to waste any time trying to get the third one recorded. It would be extremely frustrating to record this one without re-recording, because each target has to be precicely taken out without wasting any weapons. Otherwise it would take forever to fly back and forth rearming. This is one of those games I never played without unlimited weapons cheat before. I believe all features can be found in the first two captain missions except for a cruiser ship class which I recorded at the end from another difficulty level.
This is not a game I'd pick up if my goal was to show how powerful and awesome Amiga can be. The game is slow and sounds are minimal. You can speed up the video yourself in a video player if you download it. Jetstrike is a similar and more impressive Amiga game, but I played this one for nostalgia reasons. Free remake, Wings of Fury 2 exists!
Merry christmas to all recorders at RAG, Amiga 4ever! Special thanks goes to ScHlAuChi for getting the re-recording feature into WinUAE, I never would've tried to record this game without it.
Midsmanship missions (2:24)
Captain mission 1 (20:22)
Battleship sunk (24:56)
First plane kill (39:15)
Carrier sunk (50:28)
Captain mission 2 (1:06:53)
Destroyer sunk (1:12:54)
Kamikaze run / ending (1:31:45)
P.S. Some might wonder why there are black borders all over the screen. This is because there are occasional scrolling messages at the bottom and I didn't want to crop those. I left equal ammount of black above so the screen is centered. -
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All Comments (21)
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Wow. I wrote this game. Talk about a blast from the past. It was my first real video game, for USI, which later became Electronic Arts Canada. This was back in the day, when you had tiny teams. One programmer, half an artist and 1/4 of a sound guy. There is actually a set of cheat codes - for unlimited weapons, planes, etc, but I don't remember what it was. it was over 20 years ago after all.
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To those curious - I wrote this game in 100% 68000 Assembly language. At the time I didn't know C - I had taught myself Basic on the 64, then 6502 assembly on the same 64, and then when I got my Amiga I taught myself 68000 Assembly (SO much nicer than 6502!) - and before I go any further, I would NOT recommend anyone write games entirely in assembly language. It became a HUGE chore towards the end. I was quite proud of the display, as I used some copper tricks to do resolution switching several places on the screen. For the default view (close up on the plane), the top was in low-res 320x200, but there was a resolution switch between the upper display and the dash, switching it to "hi-res" 640x200. This allowed more details in the mini-view and the instruments. Then for the scrolling text at the bottom, I switched again but to a singlle hi-res bitplane and then set the foreground colour to a gradient from the top of the text to the bottom. This made scrolling the text easier, since there was only a single bitplane to scroll, but it was a different colour per line, so it looked nicer than just a monochrome font. When you fly up and zoom out, the upper display again switches to hi-res to better show details. All of the art was done in Deluxe Paint. If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them as best I can, keeping in mind this was a LONG time ago!
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memories that was one of my dad favorites game. R.I.P dad 2008
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Yes, I am the Colin Fox listed in the credits :) I'm glad you enjoyed the game!
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This is a well made game. The graphics, plane movement are great and engine and explosions sounds still give me the goosebumps. And the music is a cherry on the top.
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I was quite proud of this for all the trickery involved. On that display the upper portion is in low res high colour, the dash is in medium res 16 colour, and the scrolling text area at the bottom is actually only 1 bitplane deep, and I use raster interrupts to change the colour for the gradient. You can't do tricks like that with video cards today. :)
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GOSH childhood with AMIGA and titles like this. Best years! Thanks, Dad!
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The bass in the beginning alone just took me back in my childhood- with overwhelming memories.
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This game has a special place in my heart, one of few games my dad used to play and one of those Amiga games that got me into loving gaming in general <3
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Watching this and remembering one of my best friends who played this with me on his Amiga. I was like 8 back then. Always tried but was bad at it. A few years ago he commited suicide. The real reasons are unknown. He didn't leave a letter or anything. But we know that it is probably due to the tumour he had in his head that blinded him more and more. Back then already he wasn't able to see very well. Had to go very close to the screen to see.
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It's probably 20 years since I played this, loved it. I'm pretty sure all you had to do to land was press up, flying from right to left. This descended the plane with the nose up a little so it caught the wires.
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Oh man..seems like it was just yesterday when i spend hours and hours on my amiga600..staying inside on a sunny summer day...walking around with your disk box and swap games with your friends.
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As a kid I found this game super intriguing but I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how those elusive deck landings worked. You can imagine I saw ‘The End’ quite regularly. Had tons of fun though!
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This game made me buy my first Amiga. I was still on the C64, but after seeing this I just had to have one. It feels like yesterday somehow. I remember so much about this game still, even though I wasn't very good at it. The bombing and shooting precision on this longplay is really amazing. It wasn't that easy to pull off as far as I remember.
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Remember this and the WW1 game 'Wings'. Played Alien Breed, Chaos Engine and Desert Strike alot too but spent most of my time playing Sensible World of Soccer. Remember Falcon Patrol on my C64 as well. Great days. Games don't feel as exciting now as they used to; may be my age.
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I remember this game ! Man did i enjoyed this game , really mis that good old time ( all games where magic )
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For it's time this game was just crazy good and terribly addictive.
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Awesome game, great gameplay. Hours of fun back in the day.
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Man i used to love this game... <3
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I still have thrills hearing the main theme. Childhood memories!
