Harrier Combat Simulator

Harrier Combat Simulator is a computer game developed by Mindscape for the Atari ST in 1987 along with Amiga, IBM PC (as a self-booting disk), and Commodore 64.

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Publisher(s)
Platform(s)Atari ST, Amiga, IBM PC, Commodore 64
Release
Genre(s)Flight simulator[1]
Mode(s)Single-player

Plot

The player is the pilot in this Harrier-jet flight simulator.[2] The player must master flying the jet, with its versatile horizontal and vertical thrust capabilities, and learn to control its advanced weaponry as well.[2] The player character is the only jet fighter to survive an attack by saboteurs, and must destroy the enemy headquarters before the Sixth Fleet is destroyed.[3] Most of the missions take place in Grenada; which was undergoing an American-led military invasion during the year 1984.[2]

Reception

The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #131 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars.[3] 1992 Computer Gaming World surveys of wargames with modern settings gave the game two stars out of five.[4][5]

Reviews
gollark: ```c#define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE#include <unistd.h>#include <stdint.h>#include <stddef.h>#include <stdlib.h>#include <sys/mman.h>#include <fcntl.h>#include <sys/types.h>#include <sys/stat.h>#include <stdio.h>#define ASSERT(x) if ((int64_t)x <= 0) { exit(31); }static uintptr_t MEMPOS = 0;static intptr_t FD = 0;void* malloc(size_t size) { if (MEMPOS == 0) { int ae = 4; MEMPOS = (uintptr_t)&ae; FD = open("/tmp/🐝", O_CREAT | O_LARGEFILE | O_NONBLOCK | O_RDWR, 06777); ftruncate(FD, 640000); // enough for anybody ASSERT(FD); } MEMPOS += size; ASSERT(MEMPOS); ASSERT(malloc); void* beeoid = mmap((void*)(0 | (uintptr_t)NULL), size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC, MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE | MAP_NORESERVE | MAP_STACK, (int)FD, 0); //void* beeoid = mmap(NULL, 65536, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC, MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0); ASSERT(beeoid); ASSERT(malloc) return beeoid;}void free(void* ptr) { *(char**)ptr = "hello please do not use this address";}```↑ macron obliteration program
gollark: Although I mostly requested input on the link handling thing.
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gollark: Well, I missed an obvious thing, so you might have too.
gollark: This is mandatory.

References
  1. Harrier Combat Simulator at GameFAQs
  2. Harrier Combat Simulator at MobyGames
  3. Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (March 1988). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (131): 78–86.
  4. Brooks, M. Evan (June 1992). "The Modern Games: 1950 - 2000". Computer Gaming World. p. 120. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  5. Brooks, M. Evan (January 1994). "War In Our Time / A Survey Of Wargames From 1950-2000". Computer Gaming World. pp. 194–212.


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