LHX Attack Chopper - Libya Supply Run in Osprey

Inspired by latest discovery - really promising retro helo flight sim in the works made from scratch by Hidden Asbestos: • Playlist
I fired up old LHX Attack Chopper made by no other than Brent Iverson. The game was released in 1990 for PC and in 1992 for Sega Genesis. The version I'm running comes from my Jane's Fighters Anthology CD1, which was undocumented feature, but nice surprise!
The game featured 3 theatres of operation - Libya, East Germany and Vietnam. You could fly several diverse mission types ranging from escorts, search & destroy to supply runs or medevacs. You could choose more robust AH-64 Apache or UH-60 Blackhawk with cockpits filled mostly with analog gauges, or go modern with V-22 Osprey (rotary/fixed wing hybrid with tilt engines) or futuristic LHX featuring fully glass cockpit.
The gameplay was simple but fun and on higher difficulty levels really challenging. The game engnie was later used for Su-25 Sturmovik and Chuck Yeager's Air Combat.
No camels were hurt during making of this video.
#RetroFlightSims

[@Air-Striegler]

I had to go to my friend´s place to play this on his father´s 2.86! His father was always on busines trips for weeks and it was exactly those weeks we spent with LHX. We even built a home cockpit imitation with chairs and desks and mounted keyboard and Joystick accordingly....damn.....early 90ies......adventurous times. Thanky you once again for the memories.

[@Negostrike]

There's something magic with that big LHX and the EA logo dancing around the screen with that music.

[@shaider1982]

it was more than twenty years after using the Osprey here that I finally saw an actual one flying around.

[@RealDarko]

Amazing to see how this thingie looked back in pre ODS times!! Thanks for playing it and recording it for us!

[@tureytayno3154]

Thank you for your likes and comments.

[@HiddenAsbestos]

Thanks for the mention! I shall now grab my popcorn :)

[@ch4pp]

I remember the first time I successfully rescued the POWs... Thank you for bringing back some very fond memories.

[@happyloaf]

I've wanted a copy of this game for years! Played it at a friends house growing up...and it is on the Fighters Anthology disc I have on my shelf?! Crazy.

[@Why485]

Wow, this runs really well. I'm always surprised when games of this era can run at a high and smooth framerate.

[@damsonn]

It's all fine until the game meets PC so fast that the time flow in game goes into supersonic speeds because the programmer based game ticks on something dependent on CPU speed instead of ... idk maybe RTC. LHX was not one of those games thankfully - I played this back in mid/late 90's on Pentium 75MHz and it run fine and really smooth. You can't say the same about the USNF/ATF series. Well I guess it had so high requirements devs were not concerned that some PCs in the future could run their sim at more than 60FPS. Thankfully they patched Fighters Anthology (v1.02) with frame rate limiter - locked at max 52FPS IIRC. Try running USNF'97 or ATF Gold (both Windows versions) on modern PC...

[@doom9344]

I played this game on 286 Hercules mod. It was so amazing.

[@codrignher]

I always reached stall when trying to convert to plane option, now I believe that is the matter of throttle - I was switching with 50% only in mid-air.

[@SimonHalliday001]

Are you running this in DosBox? If so, how did you get the full colour palette? I keep getting dithering, even when I set the machine to vga or svga. Great video btw! :)

[@SimonHalliday001]

Nvm, I figured it out, add: vga high to the end of the exe when running :)

[@Reticuli]

Functional.

[@margovincent22x]

I played this game before

[@alexh2790]

Weird, adlib sound doesn't initialize for me if I set dosbox faster than 3500 cycles but your gameplay looks like it is set higher.

[@damsonn]

Yeah, the autodetect routine will fail when cycles are set too high. But you can increase the cycle count after you run the game and sound will be initialized correctly (with CTRL-F12), you can set the step value in dosbox.conf, look for cycleup and cycledown values - anything lower than 100 will be percentage of current cycle value, higher than that it will be actual step in cycles, so for instance if you set cycleup=500 cycledown=1000 and press CTRL-F12 it will increase the cycle count by 500, CTRL-F11 will decrease it by 1000 cycles.

[@droid2478]

Does this game support dosbox ver 0.74-3?

[@damsonn]

Yes.

[@droid2478]

@@damsonn where do you download this game?

[@damsonn]

@@droid2478 This version was included on CD1 of Jane's Fighters Anthology as a bonus.