Hellcats Over the Pacific

published by Graphic Simulations Corporation in 1991, developed by Parsoft Interactive, running on Macintosh OS Classic

type: flight, simulation
perspective: other bird's-eye side view 1st person 3rd person
player options: single player

languages: eng

Technical specs

hardware: Joystick,

display: _ (mixed), flat polygons, textured polygons

"Requires Mac LC, any Mac II, SE/30, Classic II, or Quadra " (meaning any machine with a 68020 or newer CPU)

Box warns that this game will not operate on Macintosh Plus, Macintosh SE, or Macintosh Classic (meaning any machine with a 68000)

Note that this game was released in a 68k Mac space-time, a few years before PowerPC Mac space-time. No official word for PowerPC compatibility is known.

zerothis # 2014-10-24 21:07:17

Editor note

Eric Parker designed graphics routines to redraw only areas of the screen that changed between frames. Nothing particularly new, but this is the first (and only?) time it happened on a 68k Mac (a machine with no specialized graphics hardware originally intended for binary color text and the occasional icon and a highly specialized OS for the same purpose). The ocean has waves, the roads and runways have lines, the sky has multiple types of clouds, planes cast shadows, fires burn on planes and aircraft carriers, and carriers may experience fully simulated sinkings.

The flight model is reportedly quite sophisticated as well.

zerothis # 2014-10-24 20:42:20