Jane's in the 90s. Back when you had to read a spiral bound book for a week before you could play the game. All the MFD menus! I still have all the Jane's games and Falcon 4.0 and documentation in a storage bin.
Mud spike at 12 o'clock. Music on. Laser on. Losing lase, watch your steering. Release. Bombs are gone, good release. Missile launch, at 9 o'clock! Chevy one! Is engaging defensive SA-9! Flare Flare! Oh oh that hurt! Engine one is damaged! Engine two is damaged! We are going in, eject eject!
I also have many fond memories of this game. It was very fun, very playable. Before this game I was of the belief that a S3 Trio 64 was all the video card a PC needed. After I saw a friend play this I went right out and bought by first 3dfx Voodoo graphics card. I'd love to see this game remastered in 4k using modern ray tracing graphics. It would be such a beauty to play.
My dad used to play this a lot, I found the box for it in a closet... He also had a flight stick for it too and I'm still looking for it, I wonder if it'll work with my PC or if I can find an adapter for it somewhere lol, game looks cool af for it's time though
I remember this really well from about 1998. Someone gave me a copy from Thailand but it had no instructions. It took months to work out. I loved this game. The flight model was particularly satisfying. It imparted the large mass of the F-15 very nicely if I recall. When it was loaded with bombs, rockets and fuel the AOA during cruise was modeled very well. The rate of roll was much less responsive and required much more joystick input, the bleed off of speed in sustained turns was alarming and high speed stall was something you really needed to avoid. I love the way AI enemy aircraft or SA missiles would force you to jettison stores to stay alive. The co pilot was very funny at times BOOM, Boom - out go the lights, Shack, That was Stoopid, What the Hell is wrong with you? The muscular music and whole feeling of the game was exceptional for its time. It supported 3DFX too. I olny ever saw it with 3DFX once on a friends computer. The mach rings in the thrust during afterburner looked great. The scenery was a big improvement on a 3DFX card too. I used to set up a scenario where I was in the mountains of Iran at dawn or dusk with bombs (perhaps Durandals), 2x Aim 9's and 2x AIM 20 and a centreline fuel tank. The terrain following radar would be on and the speed would be 380-400KIAS. It was a loaded configuration as if I was going to destroy a newly built runway discovered by satellite intelligence for example. 3 or 4 Iranian F-14's would then jump me from 10000ft above. I'd have to act decisively to survive. The order in which I prioritized determined life or death. Try the scenario out. Your heart will pump hard.
Well, today everything is about Graphics and Flight Simulations don't contribute to the progress of Graphics like let's say FPS, RPGs and Open World games do. Back then people loved Military Hardware and they still do Today but i guess the gaming industry is more focused on Graphics than gameplay.
I think they are making a huge mistake, and ignoring a major target market. I think older men would play these games for hours at a time. My other theory is the government needs young men to join the Marines and Army so you get games like Call of Duty as a form of encouragement.
In the Dos's time there were so many simulator games with the good balance between simulation and nice gameplay. For example, made by Digital Image Design and published by Ocean Software TFX/EF2000/F-22 ADF series, or Jane's Longbow/ATF/Navy Fighters series and, of course, Strike Commander from Origin and many others. But now we have mostly either arcade games such as Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. which are too primitive to play, or strong simulator games such as Falcon 4.0 Allied Force which are too boring to get fun and not playable without joystick. Even Jane's has its own primitive JASF: Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters. But I may be wrong and absolutely incorrect with broken English.
This was awesome! Remember the F18 one too? It wasn't Jane... It was another one. I can't remember now... and the Jane's submarine game. I still have the CD!
Loved Janes played Iraq and Iran campaigns for hours in 2000 - 2001 - boom boom out go the lights ! Fond memories doing airstrip crater runs. Looking for attack boats in Iran. Looked around today for a similar game and just nothing meets Janes tbh.
The only upgrade is the resolution that was doubled by a glide wrapper 640x480 to 1280x960,you can now use Nglide to do that in the option set the resolution to 1280x960
I've managed to get it up and running again on my new Ryzen 5 PC, wasn't an issue - its really impressive in terms of having a clickable virtual cockpit, every button works, and actually being very satisfying to play - with a tiny HDD footprint. Amazing it works so well even today. Good fun even now.
how??? do you HAVE to have a cd to be able to play? i do have the cd but my new pc has no disc drive... am i gonna have to install one to run janes f-15? i wanna play it so bad for hours lol
I use a glide wrapper (zeckensacks glide wrapper) with the "Try high res"option,this option will double the standard resolution=640x480 to 1280x960 :-)
Yea that's what I mean Did you play with the nvidia control panel or with the glider options? Because I use nglide but It doesn't have much options to make game look better (and I don't think it let's you to run the game on 1024x726
somebody help me get this installed without a cd on windows 10 lol this is my 3rd day of scouring the internet and all the information from install instructions says install off original CD first and foremost
Hornet1a how did you get your plane/terrain to look like this? On my install while it works great looks like I have a DOS game!!!!! I have all of Janes flight sims and they are all awesome except Janes strike fighters, but all the other ones especially this one and F/A-18 with TSH 4.02 are CHOICE!!!
And how do you create the custom screen for that resolution from the nvidia control panel? Oh nice I also run longbow 2 with nglide Why does that keyboard get stuck? Did you try joystick?
Well... I run the game on win7 64 bit (with the the help from aqrit files) but I'm using the nglide so hopefully when I come back home from the states I'll try your wrapper and use the "try high res" and see if it works Do I have to change anything in the nvidia control panel as well?
Xbox? PlayStation? No. This computer simulation was the best. I still play Jane's. F15 Strike Eagle, Fighter's Anthology, Fleet Command & Jane's SSI Hunter Killer. Realistic simulations. Not that Mickey Mouse arcade stuff.
Can someone already remake this gem, or at least fix it so it works flawlessly on modern hardware? It is truly one of the best combat flight sims of all time.
@@gainonten4031 Precisely! DCS / BMS is too complicated for people who want to study, train and fly as real pilots. I don't have time to read over 1000+ pages of the manual. Jane did it perfectly, the balance between simplification and complication. Strike Fighter series (Third wire) are too simple without air to ground locking features. DCS / BMS at another hand, are too complicated. In Jane's sims, you could just in any aircraft and fly with a few buttons, operate the radar, weapons, etc in a few additional buttons while respecting how each aircraft and weapons operate semi-realistically. No another sims have done this kind of balance just yet.
@@davidsalazar4264 Spot on. DCS is a marvel, but it just too complicated and strange as it may sound, it doesn't feel as immersive as Jane's F15 did even with the former's amazing graphics
According to the F15KEYS.INI file (key command list) in the main folder SHIFT+F3 :padlock wso threat SHIFT+F4 :padlock designated Numpad / is supposed to unpadlock but seems to do the opposite.
I can get it to run in Windows 10 with "Dxwnd" following those instructions at SimHQ forum:simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4332768/re-janes-f-15#Post4332768 I'm using NGlide2.00 Setting: Video back end:automatic Screen resolution:1280x960 The rest are set at "default"
Sim Deck get Nglide 0.99 and it should work on Win 7 as I got it to work on Win 8, although one thing is the menu's don't show up, but let's say if you click where they are supposed to be they kind of flicker so you can see them real fast, click and the missions, training, etc will show up.
Yes, you need Aqrit's ddwrapper and in the aqrit.cfg file set ForceDirectDrawEmulation = 1 That fixed all the menu issues for me on Win 7. In addition, I use nGlide to get better graphics.
Stefan Mannsfeld Thank you Stefan, the agrits ddwrapper is what I was forgetting to add on, now it looks GREAT with Nglide 1.02 + agrits ddwrapper on Windows 7!! Although still the menus aren't working, they still kind flash so they kind of work!!
Hey hornet1a, I've successfully gotten Jane's F-15 to run on Windows 7 in high resolution with Zechensack's Wrapper. However, the screen is stretched due to my high-aspect ratio monitor. How might I fix this? -note: my video card is an Nvidia GTX 285-
hornet1a That didn't do it... However, disabling compatibility mode resolved the aspect ratio issue. Sadly, though, with compatibility disabled, the awesome menu music cuts out after only playing for about five seconds. Any ideas?
I have the collectors edition I bet you I still have the original stuff. I went off in the military years after this game so my room was mostly untouched when I was gone for like 11+ years.
Yea but it doesn't mean newer flight games are better. Most people are only looking at graphics in newer games. Most of the newer flight sim planning mission suck. the creators put way to much ground defense on the other-side.
and a frustrated 9 year old kid whining about not been able to fly the aircraft lol i had used to the arrow keys for flying before that point, but F4.0 did not use them as flight controls xD
I used to play this game everyday
Longbow 2 was my favorite
Seriously one of the best flight sims ever made. They set the bar high, and in many ways, nobody has surpassed it, even today.
Jane's in the 90s. Back when you had to read a spiral bound book for a week before you could play the game. All the MFD menus! I still have all the Jane's games and Falcon 4.0 and documentation in a storage bin.
They had easy mode 😊
@@TheForge10I can't run the game on windows 11 what should I do
@@Fighterpilot5358 emulator
Mud spike at 12 o'clock. Music on. Laser on.
Losing lase, watch your steering.
Release. Bombs are gone, good release.
Missile launch, at 9 o'clock! Chevy one! Is engaging defensive SA-9! Flare Flare!
Oh oh that hurt! Engine one is damaged! Engine two is damaged!
We are going in, eject eject!
Haha that brings back memories
Chevy one green them up
Chevy one Fox two
Splash!
Pikcle pickel!
I used to play this with my childhood friend. I remember it being hard as shit
I also have many fond memories of this game. It was very fun, very playable. Before this game I was of the belief that a S3 Trio 64 was all the video card a PC needed. After I saw a friend play this I went right out and bought by first 3dfx Voodoo graphics card. I'd love to see this game remastered in 4k using modern ray tracing graphics. It would be such a beauty to play.
the physics are amazing. the plane feels heavy, and the bleed of speed is amazing. my all time favourite game
Except for DCS as of a few hours ago
@@crazycatrox70 did they release something?
@@gainonten4031The F15E
Oh, the memories.
this was my favorite jane's game when I was a kid
I miss this game so bad
A very good simulator but also a very playable game with good atmosphere, campaign, a superb mission editor etc..
My dad used to play this a lot, I found the box for it in a closet... He also had a flight stick for it too and I'm still looking for it, I wonder if it'll work with my PC or if I can find an adapter for it somewhere lol, game looks cool af for it's time though
When I played this game as a kid I imagined myself as Maverick in Top Gun and quoting the movie word by word.
I remember this really well from about 1998. Someone gave me a copy from Thailand but it had no instructions. It took months to work out. I loved this game.
The flight model was particularly satisfying. It imparted the large mass of the F-15 very nicely if I recall. When it was loaded with bombs, rockets and fuel the AOA during cruise was modeled very well. The rate of roll was much less responsive and required much more joystick input, the bleed off of speed in sustained turns was alarming and high speed stall was something you really needed to avoid. I love the way AI enemy aircraft or SA missiles would force you to jettison stores to stay alive.
The co pilot was very funny at times BOOM, Boom - out go the lights, Shack, That was Stoopid, What the Hell is wrong with you? The muscular music and whole feeling of the game was exceptional for its time. It supported 3DFX too. I olny ever saw it with 3DFX once on a friends computer. The mach rings in the thrust during afterburner looked great. The scenery was a big improvement on a 3DFX card too.
I used to set up a scenario where I was in the mountains of Iran at dawn or dusk with bombs (perhaps Durandals), 2x Aim 9's and 2x AIM 20 and a centreline fuel tank. The terrain following radar would be on and the speed would be 380-400KIAS. It was a loaded configuration as if I was going to destroy a newly built runway discovered by satellite intelligence for example. 3 or 4 Iranian F-14's would then jump me from 10000ft above. I'd have to act decisively to survive. The order in which I prioritized determined life or death. Try the scenario out. Your heart will pump hard.
This was on the shelf with Math Blaster when I was four lol. oh the memories win 95
Why do they not make simulators like these anymore . I miss it.
+Reza R Hmm... it seems that you don´t know that there is DCS? (Digital Combat Simulator - free to download)
Well, today everything is about Graphics and Flight Simulations don't contribute to the progress of Graphics like let's say FPS, RPGs and Open World games do. Back then people loved Military Hardware and they still do Today but i guess the gaming industry is more focused on Graphics than gameplay.
They do! Falcon 4 BMS (Benchmark Sims)... check my channel, plenty of.
I think they are making a huge mistake, and ignoring a major target market. I think older men would play these games for hours at a time. My other theory is the government needs young men to join the Marines and Army so you get games like Call of Duty as a form of encouragement.
In the Dos's time there were so many simulator games with the good balance between simulation and nice gameplay. For example, made by Digital Image Design and published by Ocean Software TFX/EF2000/F-22 ADF series, or Jane's Longbow/ATF/Navy Fighters series and, of course, Strike Commander from Origin and many others. But now we have mostly either arcade games such as Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. which are too primitive to play, or strong simulator games such as Falcon 4.0 Allied Force which are too boring to get fun and not playable without joystick. Even Jane's has its own primitive JASF: Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters. But I may be wrong and absolutely incorrect with broken English.
Man that was a great game. I'm so disappointed that they didn't continue the series.
This was awesome! Remember the F18 one too? It wasn't Jane... It was another one. I can't remember now... and the Jane's submarine game. I still have the CD!
i used to have this, i loved it.
Loved Janes played Iraq and Iran campaigns for hours in 2000 - 2001 - boom boom out go the lights ! Fond memories doing airstrip crater runs. Looking for attack boats in Iran.
Looked around today for a similar game and just nothing meets Janes tbh.
Quite possibly the best simulator I ever played.... Newer games don't get what it is all about
Brings back the memory of endless hours of flying.. then Falcon 4.0 came out.
Both are great, but I always thought that Falcon 4.0 didn't have the same fun factor.
This is a classic.
It works on Windows XP with a dual-core very well. Great sim.
best game comms ever
how would I go about getting a graphical upgrade like in this video? My version is still in potato mode
The only upgrade is the resolution that was doubled by a glide wrapper 640x480 to 1280x960,you can now use Nglide to do that in the option set the resolution to 1280x960
Have you heard of DCS's A-10?
I've managed to get it up and running again on my new Ryzen 5 PC, wasn't an issue - its really impressive in terms of having a clickable virtual cockpit, every button works, and actually being very satisfying to play - with a tiny HDD footprint. Amazing it works so well even today. Good fun even now.
how??? do you HAVE to have a cd to be able to play? i do have the cd but my new pc has no disc drive... am i gonna have to install one to run janes f-15? i wanna play it so bad for hours lol
Hey, could you post all your glide wrapper's settings in video description? Thanks in advance, great vid!
I used to love this game.
I use a glide wrapper (zeckensacks glide wrapper) with the "Try high res"option,this option will double the standard resolution=640x480 to 1280x960 :-)
Yea that's what I mean
Did you play with the nvidia control panel or with the glider options? Because I use nglide but It doesn't have much options to make game look better (and I don't think it let's you to run the game on 1024x726
somebody help me get this installed without a cd on windows 10 lol
this is my 3rd day of scouring the internet and all the information from install instructions says install off original CD first and foremost
Hornet1a how did you get your plane/terrain to look like this? On my install while it works great looks like I have a DOS game!!!!!
I have all of Janes flight sims and they are all awesome except Janes strike fighters, but all the other ones especially this one and F/A-18 with TSH 4.02 are CHOICE!!!
i still have the CD wish windows 10 would run it. this sim was great just think how much better it would be today
Just set up a VM and put on windows 98.
And how do you create the custom screen for that resolution from the nvidia control panel?
Oh nice I also run longbow 2 with nglide
Why does that keyboard get stuck? Did you try joystick?
We destroyed that bigger than dallas
Hey hornet are you using the zeckensacks glider with anything else?
never understood the jet sound inside the cockpit, sounds like AC :D
Well... I run the game on win7 64 bit (with the the help from aqrit files) but I'm using the nglide so hopefully when I come back home from the states I'll try your wrapper and use the "try high res" and see if it works
Do I have to change anything in the nvidia control panel as well?
after 12 years stil my favorite game
Remember this well.
Pickle.
Shitpickle!
im still playing in 2020
this was one of the best sims ever made
Xbox? PlayStation? No. This computer simulation was the best. I still play Jane's. F15 Strike Eagle, Fighter's Anthology, Fleet Command & Jane's SSI Hunter Killer. Realistic simulations. Not that Mickey Mouse arcade stuff.
Can someone already remake this gem, or at least fix it so it works flawlessly on modern hardware? It is truly one of the best combat flight sims of all time.
There is DCS and Falcon BMS. You can fly the Strike Eagle in BMS.
@@dixievfd55 after reading +1000 pages manual
@@gainonten4031 Precisely! DCS / BMS is too complicated for people who want to study, train and fly as real pilots. I don't have time to read over 1000+ pages of the manual. Jane did it perfectly, the balance between simplification and complication.
Strike Fighter series (Third wire) are too simple without air to ground locking features. DCS / BMS at another hand, are too complicated.
In Jane's sims, you could just in any aircraft and fly with a few buttons, operate the radar, weapons, etc in a few additional buttons while respecting how each aircraft and weapons operate semi-realistically. No another sims have done this kind of balance just yet.
@@davidsalazar4264 Spot on. DCS is a marvel, but it just too complicated and strange as it may sound, it doesn't feel as immersive as Jane's F15 did even with the former's amazing graphics
@@davidsalazar4264 You don't need to read a 1000 page manual to get into DCS...
How did you keep your eyes locked on the target when in 3D cockpit mode?
According to the F15KEYS.INI file (key command list) in the main folder
SHIFT+F3 :padlock wso threat
SHIFT+F4 :padlock designated
Numpad / is supposed to unpadlock but seems to do the opposite.
@@hornet1a Thanx!
Great vid. How do you get that perfect graphic.? thx for the vid
Lots of triple A ahead....ah, the memories...
Could you make the game work in Windows 10? If yes, could you post all your glide wrapper's settings in video description?
I can get it to run in Windows 10 with "Dxwnd" following those instructions at SimHQ forum:simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4332768/re-janes-f-15#Post4332768
I'm using NGlide2.00
Setting:
Video back end:automatic
Screen resolution:1280x960
The rest are set at "default"
@@hornet1a so is the only way you can play is if you have the CD? i have one but no disc drive cause well its 2022 and my new pc is a week old
@@andrewholm6341 if you do a full install the CD is not necessary and running better (no stuttering)
@@hornet1a do you have full install link? so full install without cd then add V1.17 patch
@@andrewholm6341 www.myabandonware.com/game/jane-s-combat-simulations-f-15-a58
Wow - 2:07-2:18 looks just as good as anything out there today!
what joystick?
nice game. thanks for sharing
Can you help me install this game man on setup wizard itjust says error copying files
how do i get it to run on win 10?
Got it to run in Windows 10 following this guide:simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4332768/re-janes-f-15#Post4332768
In short you need Nglide and DXwnd and delete some movies that cause the menu to crash.
how to download this game
www.myabandonware.com/game/jane-s-combat-simulations-f-15-a58
Sim Deck get Nglide 0.99 and it should work on Win 7 as I got it to work on Win 8, although one thing is the menu's don't show up, but let's say if you click where they are supposed to be they kind of flicker so you can see them real fast, click and the missions, training, etc will show up.
You think there's a way to play this on a ras pi?
Probably not :-)
But if you can run Windows Xp on it maybe....
Or through Wine but it will probably fail!
Does anyone know of a way to get this to work on a Windows 7 machine?
Yes, you need Aqrit's ddwrapper and in the aqrit.cfg file set ForceDirectDrawEmulation = 1
That fixed all the menu issues for me on Win 7. In addition, I use nGlide to get better graphics.
Stefan Mannsfeld
Thank you Stefan, the agrits ddwrapper is what I was forgetting to add on, now it looks GREAT with Nglide 1.02 + agrits ddwrapper on Windows 7!! Although still the menus aren't working, they still kind flash so they kind of work!!
Hey hornet1a,
I've successfully gotten Jane's F-15 to run on Windows 7 in high resolution with Zechensack's Wrapper. However, the screen is stretched due to my high-aspect ratio monitor. How might I fix this?
-note: my video card is an Nvidia GTX 285-
hornet1a
That didn't do it...
However, disabling compatibility mode resolved the aspect ratio issue. Sadly, though, with compatibility disabled, the awesome menu music cuts out after only playing for about five seconds. Any ideas?
still trying to learn this game. It runs easily on my WinXP machine. Doesn't even need compatibility mode. Not sure about Win 7.
Great video and graphics! good job!
Even DCS is not that perfect yet
It wont install "Error Copying Files"
Who can help me install this
One of my first experience
I have the collectors edition I bet you I still have the original stuff. I went off in the military years after this game so my room was mostly untouched when I was gone for like 11+ years.
Question is.whos Jane?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janes_Information_Services
I'd play this today if I had it and it worked on Windows 10
Just got pissed got the game no luck on windows ten, ya what a joke
Dooo more vidzz of these games
I kno u hear me man .lol revisit this brotha . run it on dos box . not alot of people run these games anymore u could get hella veiws man
I have this game on my laptop ...this and janes fighters seires
U play earth seige 2 ...or starseige ...freespace 2?
too bad jane's went under i played this when i was 10 and was cofused as shit but loved it
Need the 3Dfx mod
;-))) Win10 possible install but in XP version = bugs... Lookfor F18 Jane's...
A-10 tank killa
Yea but it doesn't mean newer flight games are better. Most people are only looking at graphics in newer games. Most of the newer flight sim planning mission suck. the creators put way to much ground defense on the other-side.
DCS World doesn't have that model...
Razbam is working on it (you have to be patient!) razbamsimulations.com/index.php/dcs/f-15e-project
1280x960*
and a frustrated 9 year old kid whining about not been able to fly the aircraft lol i had used to the arrow keys for flying before that point, but F4.0 did not use them as flight controls xD
Chevy 1 Fox 2!
aubergine???
Saitek AV8r-01
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