Description of B-17 Flying Fortress
This hugely underrated flight-sim adds a novel element to the genre: the pilots' personalities. True to the real-life characteristic of the B-17, a veritable "flying fortress" of WW2 bomber that houses a team of 10 pilots and gunners, the allocation of the best man to the best job and constant monitoring of their morale in this game are as important as your pilot skills. Missions are varied and interesting, and flight dynamics more or less accurate.
In a rare display of courtesy to the gaming public, MicroProse gave consent to the game's developers to release it as freeware in 1997, to cheers of fans worldwide :)
Review By HOTUD
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Dog eater Hitoaki Minami 2023-05-08 0 point
Hey,Hitoaki.
Sorcerian complete no MD ban ga tachiagaranainndaga douyatte ugokunndai?
mmh 2022-11-11 1 point
@Arnman
Are you sure?
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GenSavage 2022-01-26 1 point
Not Il2 More like its grandfather, but in its day it was the escape to another world as a kid l could only dream of. There are videos on U Tube that will walk you through the basics
Steven 2019-07-23 1 point Amiga version
https://openretro.org/amiga/b-17-flying-fortress/docs/manual-en
Here's the full manual for copy protection
It's the Amiga full manual but works with PC DOS version as well
B17 2019-02-07 0 point DOS version
The link to ”buy the game” is to a completely different game (The Mighty 8th), released 8 years after this one!
Arnman 2018-03-13 2 points
FYI regarding copyprotection:
To play without protection- open B17.exe in a hex editor program and change address location 0003D1FA from 9A to EB and location 0003D1FB from 8E to 03.
GOGAREDICKS 2016-11-23 4 points
This is Microprose at it's finest. Tough learning curve but worth the time and effort, when you finally barely limp back from your first successful bombing mission. Back when games didn't hold your hand all the time and you weren't bombarded with tutorials and youtube guides and "letsplays" etc, people actually hand to use their brains and rely on skill.
GaseousClay1 2016-01-17 2 points DOS version
I love this game! I played this as a kid all the time. One of the coolest flying/WW2 sims of the day. Similar to Aces Over Europe or other Microprose games of the day.
b 17 is my thing 2015-12-11 -4 points
how can I dowlowd it there is no button to say download but it looks like a cool game
Angar 2015-05-09 -1 point DOS version
So many downloads were removed from MyAbandonware (mostly because of GOG, Steam and other websites willing to cash in on the big interest for abandonware)...
...I'm just glad I did a full grab of the old MyAbandonware.fr content (about 4110 games at the time) before most of these were removed from the site, so I could get them free (like they SHOULD be and remain!).
Smart move if ever I did one, hehe! (^_-)b
Jegas 2014-01-03 -1 point DOS version
3D Flying games are harder to make than you might think. Espeically those that do flight simulation where you and AI actually fly according to physics versus video game rules.
Any hoo - this game works great but the pace kinda slow for me
Jegas 2013-11-17 1 point DOS version
EXE files have been around since DOS 1.0 - So Ignore Rukov - he knows nothing about executable file extensions. the ones now gone are COM files - but thats another discussion.
Now I'm going to try all this abandonware I've downloaded today!
Playah 2013-04-05 0 point DOS version
GET THIS GAME! GET IT NAOW!!!
Atmospheric, realistic,.... even graphics are nice for that time :)
Explanation to B17 Controls :) 2013-04-05 0 point DOS version
You might need to press M to get rid of autopilot :D
Rukov Trollovich 2013-04-04 0 point DOS version
.exe files are for windows, dos uses others, you need to look in the folder.
Of course its free!
Controls are difficult, its simulator!
OSS 2013-03-21 -1 point DOS version
What the hell are the controls? I can't play the bloody game!
Homshabom99 2011-04-04 0 point DOS version
My brother and I used to take turns playing this game. It is a true classic!
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DOS Version
4 MB
527 MBAmiga ROM
- Year: 1993
- Publisher: MicroProse Software, Inc.
- Developer: MicroProse Software, Inc.
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Atari ST ROM
- Year: 1993
- Publisher: MicroProse Software, Inc.
- Developer: MicroProse Software, Inc.
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