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DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

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by LowLevelMahn

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by gmerc

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It’s ridiculously easy to port games now.
https://robin.tooclever.org took less than a day in API time

by Waterluvian

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Does AI fit well in trying to reason about the structure of a decompiled project when you lack symbol names?
This isn’t my wheelhouse but I was surprised just how well AI could figure out the intent of the structure of some JavaScript where I had no source maps.

by imrehg

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Oh, this was one that I played a lot as a kid! (Alongside F-19 Stealth Fighter, F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter - the two that apparently came before and after this game - TIL, and to a lesser extent F-14 Tomcat)
I think, this needs the original game files to run, if I read things correctly. So probably just gonna read the dev journals, rather than fly this particular bird again...

by shdh

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by bigmattystyles

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If it's the game I'm thinking of, floppy copies were going around my middle school in France at the time but this was a game that without the manual, good luck even getting the plane off the ground. I seem to recall a mode where you started out in the air. Fun times.

by louwrentius

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I've played this game so much on a Laser (Dutch computer brand) 286 with VGA monochrome screen, in the early '90s.

by mikerg87

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I posted this to twosopbts.com so that one more retro gaming community will know of the call

by smrtinsert

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Man I loved this game. My friend and I would split responsibility and share the keyboard. One did the firing other the navigating