bigtruckseriesreview . yeah I agree. The graphics, engine, content, realism and gameplay from Jane's Combat was way ahead of their time. I actually learnt alot from the manuals and gameplay. Nice flight video by the way :)
Mannnnn I miss this game. Favorite game of all time. Loved the dogfighting, there wasn't no quick, bang bang, you splashed the bandit like now a days, no, you actually had to work for that kill, damn fishbeds and fulcrums was the worst lol. "Austin, vector, 265, bandits closing, clear to engage." And the refueling that was a challenge too, for some reason I always did better at night than I did in the daytime haha. Thanks for posting, really brings back great memories.
Best combat flight sim I ever played! Will never forgive EA for buying Jane's out and shutting her down , Thank goodness Hyperlobby came through for everyone!
It’s funny because even though it’s ‘low fidelity’ I always remember thinking after moving on to study sims, ‘So why the hell isn’t technology advanced enough to be as straight forward as Jane’s USAF?’
Austin, vector, 260 for five, vector 260 bandits closing, clear to engage. loved this game, a must buy again glad to see it works on Windows 7! thanks for posting!
For the love of God, make a tutorial on how to install it step by step on windows7 ppppllllleeeeaaaaasssseeee. I still have the game since 2000 but the frame rate on my laptop is like 1.0 and I can't get access to the preferences and loadout. On another desktop, with no video card, frame rates are good but there are glitches with the terrain and skies, hurts the eyes, unplayable. I'm trying to register at a forum where I believe I could get support for it but my approval is being ignored I believe. Patches make it work on win7 but I can't find it anywhere.
Oh man, this game was so arcadish.. yet it was soooo good, the graphics were from another era for a flight simulator, the variety was just insane....The graphics are so good in this one that still look kinda decent. Ohh, and the online was awesome in this one.
I does work on Win7 64bit. I still have the disks.. and there are forums out there that explain the background of how to.. andromedius below has the link to a forum. Thanks to Andromedius by the way. Basically, you clean install from disk, apply the 1.02F Patch, then apply the "tackleberry patch" which is a zip file containing new usaf files that are to overwrite the original in the main usaf directory. And whoohoo... it works.
cool game but you could've made avoiding the SAM a little easier. Doing turns right and left and afterburner doesn't do anything because it's just coming in on you and it doesn't care which way your facing. He wants you to turn perpendicular to it because the most effective way to avoid most missiles is to cause them to turn. Shortly after they are launched they no longer have thrust, and turning burns off their velocity in huge amounts. If you've ever seen a missile in a game seem to be lethargic as it passes you, that's why, is because it no longer has enough velocity to catch up, climb, or turn towards you. Turn in an L shape away from it, drop chaff and you'll be fine. In this particular game, I always flew towards the missile at about 15 degrees away from dead on. And at the last second turn away from it. It'll be nearly dead from turning it's whole flight.
What a blast from the past! I couldn't run this, it was about 1 frame every 2 seconds unfortunately. So most of my time was spent on JSF (by Eidos). I leant it to a friend.... I no longer have it :(
The t4ckl3b3rry patch will run this on Windows 7,8, 10. Search for file JFA-IAF-USAF-Win7patch.7z. Runs fine, but bypasses the into video of the Jane's book opening.
Always enjoyed this game. I even reviewed it for the local newspaper. I have the files to install on my Win7 machine, but after clicking to install, nothing happens. Any ideas?
I have been going through website after website looking for someone who got this game to work on Windows 7. Nothing! Thank goodness I still have my Window 98 computer from 2000 with the game card still working. This game was hot. The dog fighting was unbelievable. The only thing I didn't like about this game was how its rank system worked. You are made a LT, Capt, Major, Col, and Gen regardless of how well you performed. As long as you got though the missions, you advanced in rank.
Anyone got an idea how to make it work on windows 7 please? I have the patch but it still doesn't work, when I load a mission I immediately get crashed to the desktop with an error and has stopped working. Something I did wrong?
I have this working on Win7 64bit but I was getting some terrain anomalies. I saw a direct draw wrapper but cant remember the name. Do you think it would work?
I'm not sure how i did it. I couldn't get the game to work before but one day it just started working. I installed Catalyst 13.1 shortly before the game started working, so that could have been the solution.
+BollocksUtwat WRONG SMARTASS! Spike means your RWR picked an radar signal. For short, SPIKE alone means it picked a radar signal from an aircraft radar, and MUD SPIKE means it picked the signal coming from a ground based radar!
Claudio Diaz Before you call someone a smartass maybe you should consider the sources. fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm1-02-1.pdf *MUD (type w/direction/range if able)* _1. RWR ground threat displayed with no launch indication._ _2. RWR indication of surface threat in track mode. See _*_DIRT_*_ and _*_SINGER_* *SPIKE/SPIKED (direction)* _RWR indication of an AI threat in track or_ _launch._ AI stands for Air Intercept and Ground stands for... well ground but now I am being a smartass. The whole point of brevity is to be brief. Using both words is redundant and actually confusing. Furthermore if you look up the definition of Dirt you'll see that it's fundamentally incompatible with the Spike nomenclature. *DIRT* _RWR indication of surface threat in search_ _mode. See MUD._ If spike means track or launch then you could never say Dirt Spike so you'd say Dirt to refer to a RWR indication of a ground threat in one condition but then why would you say Mud Spike if it changed to track? You see how that's not logical? A whole generation sim pilots however have internalized this false brevity as real and lash out if you take it away from them.
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO FLIGHT SIMS? I used to play Falcon 4.0, JANES USAF, TEAM APACHE and F-16 Multirole fighter on a Pentium III 450MHz with a Geforce 2 and 96MB of RAM using a SAITEK X45. NOW: I've got a Core i7, 32GB of RAM, GTX 770 with 4GB of RAM and there ARE NO FLIGHT SIMS like those to play. I'd LOVE a new FALCON or F-16 Multirole game.
I like this game so much, recently i installed on Win7 but i have visual mixture that made it impossible to see texture and ground clear any sol. please
Can you do a guide on how to get Jane's USAF working on windows 10? I just bought a copy online and followed some instructions but it wouldn't work. I have subscribed incase you decide to upload a guide, thanks.
+LukeDude759 This game was made by Janes before EA bought the rights and destroyed the whole line. EA sucks, but this game was made before. Also, EA is a publisher, they don't actually make anything. They just buy up studios and leach off their efforts.
I never said EA made this game. Just that they owned it. Also, you may have just saved my childhood by telling me that this was made before EA started taking credit for it. Thank you for that.
EA made this game. I was on the production/design team. Our team in Israel (who also did IAF) did much of the development work. There was a time when EA did cool stuff;)
i can get the game running on win 7. I don't have a joystick/throttle so i have set keyboard as preference. However, in the controls setting menu i don't see anything for rudder control, pitch or yaw. As a result I am not being able maneuver the plane. Can anyone help.
along time ago, i tried to run this in compatibility mode (windows 7 64 bit), I'm sure if your partitioned your HD or installed windows 32 bit on either the partition or the external HD, it could work. I think i'll give it a try....wait there
Can you do a guide on how to get Jane's USAF working on windows 10? I just bought a copy online and followed some instructions but it wouldn't work. I have subscribed incase you decide to upload a guide, thanks.
I want this game. No torrents have it. Btw, if you really want to play the game. Why not just torrent Windows 98 SE. Install it in VirtualBox, then install Jane's USAF on the VirtualBox.
Ok so i found my original disks, installed the game and got it patched, and ran Tackleberry's patch...the game launched I was amazed but the menu doesn't work :(
Hi I'm Tea, I like to play the Jane's USAF game in the old version 1999. however, I have trying to install it again in the moderm laptop with intel core i5. BUT I could not be installed on the modern computer. is it possible ornot if I request to JANE's USAF team to improve the software and launch a modern DVD.
I recorded this on my older PC with a Radeon 5750, my new PC has a Radeon 7950 and the game doesn't work on it, what you could, if you have an AMD or Nvidia GPU, try all drivers from 2011-2013, that's how i think i got the game to work on my old PC.
Let me direct you to the thread I opened at simhq.com about Jane's F-15 and Jane's USAF. Hopefully, that should help you : simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3855231/Possible_fix_for_Jane_s_F_15_m#Post3855231
Tackleberry, where's your patch?! The Google Drive link says: "Sorry, the file you have requested does not exist." Does anybody knows another download link or knows about this issue?!
The Company that made the game no longer exists and EA no longer supports it and i doubt they will make a DVD version. If you have a copy of Windoes XP, try using a Virtual Machine.
+revious83 Yeah. I was looking at Amazon but most of them don't ship to Brazil or don't specify the shipping method. And the price is going way higher with all the shipping logistics if 80$ wasn't enough haha. Thanks for helping, though. I've got Jane's Israeli Air Force, is this game [USAF] too different from IAF?
i have problem please help i intalled this game and an error pops up i removed the game and when i try to install it again it says its already installed please help can any body gives me all the janes usaf registery files i need all the names to remove them
Dónde puedo descargar el Juego en 2 CD o 1 DVD, para Windows 7 o Windows 8? Espero Respuesta. Gracias. Where I can download the game on 2 CDs or 1 DVD, Windows 7 or Windows 8 ? Response hope . Thank you.
I have this game but the disc is cracked. Fun game and somewhat realistic. BUT, get off the burner man. LoL You would run out of fuel faster than you know. Also, when trying to dodge missile defense, you do not want additional heat from the engine...aka, no burner.
+Airy - the .7z file has few files included in it. How do i install/patch the files for USAF ? Pls advise which files to be used specifically . Thanks in advance
LOL this game is 15 years old. Used to run it on my celeron 366mhz with 256mb ram just fine))) Google DigitalCombatSimulator. or if you are so desperate try LockOn that game was released in 2003 and is x100 better than USAF.
Muchachos! Aca encontre el patch del señor genio Tackleberry funciona perfecto en Windows 7 64 a 1920x1080 increible como se ve!! drive.google.com/file/d/0B2q4qAeNdhnrWXhBNG93d19jQTg/view
