Related Web Sites
- Abbeville Field -- Another site with a large collection of utilities and files. Most notable for it's collection of "skins" for aircraft.
- Activision's Fighter Squadron page -- Activision produced Fighter Squadron, and thus have their own page on the game. Basically dead for some time now, it nevertheless has high speed access for the 1.5 patch - a must have.
- Fighter Squadron Information Center -- Created and maintained by the original development team, this is the place to start for FS information and is the "most official" home page for the game.
- Lector's Fighter Squadron Section -- Lots of help files, downloads, screenshots, links and more! One of the best fan sites out there.
- MacPlay site -- MacPlay was purchased by the same people who ended up with the Parsoft development team. Since then they're continued to talk about releasing the game on the Mac, but it's still nowhere to be found.
*sniff*
- OpenPlane home page -- OpenPlane is the core of Fighter Squadron sim, it allows you to describe the objects in the game using a text format along with textures in TIFFs and the 3D model in an ".sm" file. This page includes the documentation for the system, some simple tools for working with the format, an example plane to work with, and a simplified engine to test out your creations in.
- Parsoft's page -- Parsoft, set up by the brilliant Eric Parker, was the original developer of Fighter Squadron. After the game was completed he moved on (back to university for a Phd I hear) and left the flight sim world after many years and some amazing games. As the owner of Parsoft the company still exists, although the other developers moved on to the newly formed Inertia Games.
- Tailslide's Air Combat -- One of the best FS add-on sites out there.
Searches and Links
Amazon ; an online store selling new and used computer and video games.
Google ; search engine that ranks by popularity
Google Groups ; an archive of Usenet newsgroups; useful for finding discussions; formerly DejaNews |
Game Trading Zone ; a site specializing in trading computer games; useful if you want to trade one of your games for Fighter Squadron: The Screaming Demons over Europe.
eBay ; Many older games listed on MobyGames are out of print. Auction sites like eBay are the best place to find them. |
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