airstrike - 2d dogfight game in the tradition of 'Biplanes' and 'BIP'

Airstrike is a 2d biplane dogfight game in the tradition of the Intellivision and Amiga games 'Biplanes' and 'BIP'. It features a robust physics engine and several other extensions of the original games.

airstrike [options]

Airstrike reads all the configuration options from a configuration file at startup but you can override from command line a few of the options:

--fullscreen

Runs the game in fullscreen mode.

--sound

Runs game with sound effects, if support for that has been compiled in.

--nosound

Runs the game without sound.

--noalpha

Game graphics will not be antialiased. This makes it run faster.

--alpha

Game graphics will be antialiased.

--config CONFIGFILE

Use given configuration file instead of the one which location is compiled into Airstrike.

Configuration file name is '.airstrikerc' and it's located in your home directory.

Airstrike is controlled from keyboard:

RIGHT

Plane nose goes up.

LEFT

Plane nose goes down.

COMMA

Accelerate.

DOT

Shoot.

SPACE

Drop a bomb.

ESC

Pause game and open game options menu. From menu you can change options, view release notes and quit it.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms specified in the GNU Public Licence (GPL).

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Ulf Ekström

Game author, programming and graphics

Peter Eismann

Windows port, comments and ideas

Eero Tamminen

Sound, graphics, game objects, makefiles, comments and ideas

Alessandro Giusti

Graphics and ideas

And many others for comments, bug reports and ideas.