Viper Strike

VIPER STRIKE

An F-16 combat flight sim for the Amstrad CPC 6128

**Scramble. Lock on. Fire.**

Viper Strike puts you in the cockpit of an F-16 over hostile territory. Fast 3D vector graphics, a full instrument panel and a real combat loop, written entirely in Z80 assembly for the CPC 6128.

Features

- Solid 3D world: runway, hangars, tanks, SAM sites, bridges, lakes

- A cockpit with radar, ADI, HUD, heading tape, ILS and a Maverick TV screen

- Guns, AIM-9 missiles, bombs, AGM-65 Maverick and flares/chaff

- MiGs that get smarter as the campaign goes on: aggression scaling, flares, SAM sites

- 7 mission types: training, intercept, ground strike, dogfight, scramble, random mission and a random campaign with a score

- A wingman you can order around

- Night missions and fog, with a night-style HUD

- Six camera views: cockpit, left, right, rear, chase and orbit

- Fuel, refuel and rearm at base

- In-game colour editor

- AY-3-8912 music for the menu and the fight (M switches it off to gain speed)

 Controls

Cursors or joystick fly, Q/A throttle, SPACE fires, W selects the weapon, T locks the next target.

Full list in the keyboard card.

Requirements

Amstrad CPC 6128 (128K), disk drive, or any CPC emulator. Load with `RUN"F16`.

Tags

amstrad-cpc, flight-simulator, f-16, retro, z80, 8-bit, dogfight, assembly

Short pitch (for the itch.io tagline)

An F-16 combat flight sim on the Amstrad CPC 6128. 3D, dogfights, missions, a campaign.