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I see. I know that Полет Навигатора is famous for releasing shovelware and low-budget casual games (I believe this was Akella's brand made for these kinds of games). I don't think that they've made any effort to port the game to Windows or even make any changes to it. What about the release year? There's no mention of 2002 on the publisher's website. It only states that the game was released in 01.07.1998.

The cover art here is for a 2001 release by XForce which GTramp uploaded as a DOS release. Going through the Internet Archive on the publisher's site mentions the 2001 release:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020408161015/http://www.cdnavigator.ru/products.html

As of 2005, the page still shows the cover art for the XForce release:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050215063836/http://www.cdnavigator.ru/cover-amber.shtml

According to the same site, the first game published under the "Полёт Навигатора" brand was released in Summer 2003:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030810094015/http://www.cdnavigator.ru/airlines2.shtml

This can be seen if you go to the capture taken before the one below:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030809233806/http://www.cdnavigator.ru:80/products.shtml

And see that no games by this brand had been available at the time.

In June 2008, however, the new Navigator website added the game to its list of released titles:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080610065248/http://www.cdnavigator.ru:80/GamesDragon.aspx

Unfortunately, there's no capture of the game page itself (The earliest capture of that page is dated 11.12.2011) but I'm pretty sure that no changes were made to the original game, it's a shame that I can't confirm that as I have never seen this re-release in any store I've been to.

Anyway, I PMed Klaster_1 asking about this release because I'd really love to play this game for Windows instead of using DOSBox.