F-15 Strike Eagle II (MicroProse) in DOSBox Staging

Just a quick mission in F-15 Strike Eagle II to show it running in DOSBox Staging. Quickly show off the 100+ framerate.
Mission involves hitting an aircraft as a stationary target and an oil refinery before heading back for a carrier landing.
A DOSBox Staging setup guide can be found here: www.tales-from...

[@MayumiTakezoC-chan9377]

my husband loved a game called fleet defender he pulled out his old 486 and showd me it was quite fun and a little like this

[@darkenedroom]

Ah yes, fleet defender, I have that, it was another sim from the same company MicroProse.

[@MayumiTakezoC-chan9377]

@ you have to admit it was quite fun old games are fun

[@darkenedroom]

@ they definitely are! 👍

[@jeffbird2983]

Great old game. I spent many hours playing it back in the day.

[@rogerdarkman157]

Nice GUI, nice work.

[@dovpauzner5093]

I dont have any sevices as Steam or GOG etc.. Can I just add emulated games to Playnite only from a folders on my PC ?

[@darkenedroom]

Yup you can add games manually although I have tweaked my setup so DOSBox-X and DOSBox Staging are considered different emulators by Playnite, I should write something about that.

[@dovpauzner5093]

@@darkenedroom Tnx, I tried to install manually but without success.

[@darkenedroom]

@@dovpauzner5093ah I probably wasn't clear, get dosbox staging up and configured, install the game itself in dosbox staging. Should be able to run it in dosbox staging as usual. Playnite is just a game launcher that I tweaked to run dosbox staging as a separate emulator. Might work if you try and add it manually as a dosbox game,, but not 100% sure.

[@pmp2559]

I had the ww1 biplane, in a dive that’s too fast wings would fall off and a jet game very similar to this

[@darkenedroom]

Maybe Red Baron, or Wings of Glory? Dawn Patrol could be another contender?

[@thomaspugh1255]

What is that Launcher/GUI for starting the game you are using there?

[@darkenedroom]

Hi, that is Playnite, a generic game launcher, so has Steam/GOG/DOSBox integration and I've tweaked it to include DOSBox Staging/DOSBox-X integration. It's running in full screen mode in the video. playnite.link/ 👍

[@thomaspugh1255]

@@darkenedroom Awesome thank you! Also appreciate your Blog showing how to set up DOSBox correctly 👍👍👍👍 Great stuff, Cheers!

[@RabbitEngineering]

what audio are you using?

[@darkenedroom]

MIdi is set to mt32 with an mt32_new model used in DOSBox config. Digital audio is set to a Soundblaster Pro 1 in the config, rest of the Soundblaster settings remain as default.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Game was disliked by aviation purists for obvious reasons (F-15 on aircraft carrier) 😁. But it did have decent polygonal graphics for the period, real 3D . 386DX would be required for real smooth gameplay, but id did run even on 286 .

[@darkenedroom]

IMHO I think this was MicroProse's 'sim lite' offering at the time, with F-19 been a bit more of a heavier weight sim. I think it helps if you find your 'level' and adjust the difficulty accordingly otherwise it becomes a bit of an arcade flight shooter. But it would probably run well on the hardware of the time! 👍

[@aleksazunjic9672]

@@darkenedroom Funny thing, F-19 does not exist in real life but was more serious sim 😁

[@darkenedroom]

@@aleksazunjic9672 F-19 s a great sim, a bit speed sensitive and some weapons are way too iffy, but they fixed all that with F-117. I have a very long playthrough of it, nearly all 99 missions! It looks like they listened to criticism and went very serious for the sequel, F-15 Strike Eagle III