Does anyone have the article referenced in the Harpoon BattleBook? I'd be interested in acquiring a copy.

 

Lowerre, James M. "Harpoon: The Blue Side." Computer Gaming World, no.85, August 1991

Does anyone have the article referenced in the Harpoon BattleBook? I'd be interested in acquiring a copy.

 

Lowerre, James M. "Harpoon: The Blue Side." Computer Gaming World, no.85, August 1991

 

Here is a Link to the whole magazine,

 

CGW Text Files

 

I have attached the extracted one to this post (I think)

Harpoon_The_Blue_Side.pdf

Perfect, thank you!

 

The prices for Harpoon on page 29 of the full issue are noteworthy too.

Yike! That sure was a big hunk of salary then.

Very nice article, well worth a look; and thumbing through the pages was fun, too.

Check out the 360 Pacific blurb on page 88.

I remember Patriot by 360. Anyone who thinks Harpoon is hard to master the mechanics of should give that one a shot. I don't think I ever did fully figure it out.

 

Buddha

I remember Patriot by 360. Anyone who thinks Harpoon is hard to master the mechanics of should give that one a shot. I don't think I ever did fully figure it out.

 

Buddha

 

do you remember Tornado?

I remember Patriot by 360. Anyone who thinks Harpoon is hard to master the mechanics of should give that one a shot. I don't think I ever did fully figure it out.

 

I think I still have Patriot, including the box and floppies, kicking around here somewhere. Can't say I ever got a good grip on it either, let alone master it.

I remember Patriot by 360. Anyone who thinks Harpoon is hard to master the mechanics of should give that one a shot. I don't think I ever did fully figure it out.

 

Buddha

 

do you remember Tornado?

 

If you'referring to the flight sim in the attached box shot, I've never played it, but the HOTU has it listed as an abandonware download.

 

I'm not sure of the legality of obtaining it that way though.

 

Buddha

I remember Patriot by 360. Anyone who thinks Harpoon is hard to master the mechanics of should give that one a shot. I don't think I ever did fully figure it out.

 

Buddha

 

 

I still have it (Patriot), that and Megafortress. That was a FUN one.....I wonder if I can crank that up in DosBox.

The Tornado flight sim had a really nice mission editor back in the day. I remember spending nearly as much time planning my strikes with it than delivering it. It was a great game for its time!

I seem to recall once reading that the RAF like the mission planner in "Tornado" so much that they rewrote the real one to be more like the one in the game ...

I remember Patriot by 360. Anyone who thinks Harpoon is hard to master the mechanics of should give that one a shot. I don't think I ever did fully figure it out.

 

I think I still have Patriot, including the box and floppies, kicking around here somewhere. Can't say I ever got a good grip on it either, let alone master it.

 

I spent quite some time fooling with Patriot, back in the day, especially fiddling with the OB's. I remember thinking that it must have shared significant amounts of code with the then-current version of Harpoon, because it shared some of the same glitches, especially a tendency for random units in the centre of your formation to go haring off to your rear without warning!

I still have it (Patriot), that and Megafortress. That was a FUN one.....I wonder if I can crank that up in DosBox.

 

Oh, yeah, MF was a lot of fun. You may not need dosbox, it certainly ran fine for me under one of the later Windows version. (XP?)