Ready for take off?
Good luck!

These were the last words you heard from mission control.

You and your best friend Iceman are sitting in your fully equipped F-14 Tomcat on the USS Enterprise carrier.

Somewhere in the Pacific.

The biggest and most evil state of them all has sent their MIGs to erase all of the free world and you and your mate are the last hope for the final strike.

Each of you can team up with a co pilot/gunner if you find a volunteer crazy enough.

Welcome to the 

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D A N G E R - Z O N E

a game for /|\ ATARI Falcon 030 

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System requirements:

- Atari Falcon Computer (or TT - but untested)
- 14 MB RAM 
- VGA Monitor 
- 20 MByte of free harddisk space 
- started in 640 x 480 (16 colors mode)
- mouse unplugged (if not it may crash on some systems)
- 2 Joysticks (for Maverick and Iceman)
- 2 Jaguar pads (for the gunners)

optional:
- NVDI (will speed up the game on stock machines)
- Accelerator (anything above 25 Mhz is strongly recommended, flys on CT60 with bus speeder)

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Installation:

Just copy all files to your atari's hard drive. As long as you don't change the structure it will happily launch from anywhere.

Start:

Double click on "danger.prg" to start the game.

Best remove the mouse during "loading" as on one of the test systems the presence of the mouse sometimes caused the game to crash.

Anyway it's a good idea to connect a second joystick at that point!


How to play:

In the title screen you can start the game with the fire button on any of the 2 Joysticks.

You will now see your F-14 on the carrier. On the left it's Maverick, on the right screen it's Iceman you see.

Launch your F-14 with the fire button.

Immediately after that you should start climbing by pulling back the joystick to gain height.

Controls:

Joystick 1/2:

Joystick up - go down 
joystick down - go up
joystick left - turn left 
joystick right - turn right 
fire button - shoot / launch when on Carrier

Jaguar pad A/B:

Direction pad - move the cross hair 
Button A - shoot 

When you are airborne you should avoid the missiles they fire at you and shoot as many MIGs as possible.

Your ECM will warn you about incoming missiles - learn how to deal with them.

Carefully watch your altitude, fuel level, energy and ammo.

If energy or fuel run out you will go down.

You don't want to crash in the ocean or be helpless and useless ;)

If ammo, energy or fuel are low, watch for your direction. if you are heading between 0 and 65,you will see "CR" next to your position.

That means you are flying towards the USS Enterprise Carrier.

If you see this beauty, you can go down, below 75 foot and land on the carrier.

You now can have a cup of coffee until your plane is refueled, repaired and reloaded.

Your crew is quick so you can even restart immediately if you want by pressing the fire button.

From time to time a really bad guy will chase you for a dogfight.

Try to get behind his aircraft and shoot until his aircraft runs out of energy.

He's flying fast so this might be challenging.

After you defeated the last boss you will have to land on the USS Enterprise to complete your mission.

As long as one player is playing, the second one can join at any time.

But each player only has one chance. 

Gunners can join at anytime.

If Maverick or Iceman fire by their selves, the cross hair will be just in front of the aircraft.

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Have fun playing Dangerzone!

If you find any bug please report it to atari060@googlemail.com 

Legal:
Dangerzone is a freeware game for the Atari Falcon 030 computer.

(C) 2024 by MacFalcon (C. Scholz)

Feel free to spread the game but it's not allowed to change anything.

Use it on your own risk!

Although it was thoroughly tested on real hardware I am not responsible if it does any harm to your computer.

All music/trademarks belong their respective owner. As this is freeware for educational purposes no one was paid (GEMA free).

If a copyright owner wants me to remove his work/trademark drop me a line (atari060@googlemail.com) and I will.

There will be a boxed version soon...

Stay Atari!

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Thanks to all who made this possible!

Especially to my wife and my son, for testing and support and Markus Binder (Omikronman) who always helps me out when I don't know what to do with my code.

Made with Omikron Basic 5 on an Atari Falcon

