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Airborne!

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Rating:	Your rating: None Average: 4.3 (18 votes)
Category:	Arcade
Perspective:
Year released:	1984
Author:	Jonathan Gay
Publisher:	Silicon Beach Software
Engine:

Download Airborne.zip (244.91 KB)
For System 1 - 5 - System 6.x

Download jonathan_gay_interview.zip (55.79 KB)
For System 1 - 5 - System 6.x

Manual

Emulation
This game works with: Mini vMac

An army of paratroopers, tanks, and jets are arrayed against one guy in the corner with a couple of guns. How long can you stave off the inevitable? (Be sure you've got sound on if you want a chance against the jets.)

This was the first Mac game to make use of digitized sound, most famously a symphonic excerpt from Ride of the Valkyries over the title screen.

A free demo without any airborne enemies was distributed as Banzai!

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Comments

by CalTheOnly - 2014, August 16 - 7:59am

Another great one. Loved that guy landing on the cactus. Rarely survived more than one or two jets myself.

by Gael_FR - 2014, April 27 - 2:38pm

Updated with full scans from my (sealed when bought !) original Airborne!, including 'manual' and disk image.
Enjoy !
Gaël

by Arthegall - 2012, March 20 - 11:50am

I just added an interview with Jonathan Gay (the 55k file) in which he discusses some of the history behind this game and his views on software preservation.

by wazeem - 2011, November 22 - 10:45am

I'm running this on a Mac Plus, it's quite an amusing little game. I used Stuffit 4.0.1 to unpack and Diskcopy 6.3.3 to make a disk.

by Snowyfox16 - 2011, May 24 - 1:26am

Isn't this an earlier version of "Banzai!"?

by emimac - 2011, February 23 - 10:16pm

A amazing game!

by Balrog - 2010, October 29 - 4:21am

I'd like to see an original dc42 of this.

by IIGS_User - 2009, December 29 - 8:22am

Can someone explain how to restore this file?

I've got a better idea:
The download file is now a Disk Copy 4.2 ".img.sit" file, which just must be unstuffed and dragged onto the vMac window to get it mounted.

by mmmmna - 2009, December 26 - 10:00pm

Loved this game back in the day.

Using minivmac 3.1.3 and Mac OS 7.0.1, nothing I have will open the .sit you are serving.

I have tried Stuffit Converter 3.0.2, Stuffit Lite 3.5 and Stuffit Lite 3.6, Stuffit Expander 4.0.1; nothing decompressed it.

Seems to not be a MacBinary file, either; none of these will convert it: MacBinary II+ 1.0.1, DeBinHex Droptool 1.0.1, BinHex 4.0 (by Yves Lempereur).

Can someone explain how to restore this file?

Edit: Changed 'xxx 7' to 'Mac OS 7' - IIGS User

by CuriosTiger - 2009, September 4 - 9:46pm

I used to love this game.

by watchsmart - 2009, June 23 - 6:19am

Anon,

You're going to have to use an emulator. Here's a list of emulators:

http://macintoshgarden.org/guides

by IIGS_User - 2009, May 20 - 4:32pm

> "How did you get this to run? There are no executables in the download? Anywhere I can go to read up on how to run these types of applications?"

Yes, it is. It is the one with the exclamation mark in its name. You are not talking about PC executable files?

by Anonymous (not verified) - 2009, May 20 - 3:53pm

How did you get this to run? There are no executables in the download? Anywhere I can go to read up on how to run these types of applications?

by watchsmart - 2009, April 21 - 12:49pm

This oldie (but goodie) seems to only run well in Mini vMac with System 6. Very crashy in Mac OS 7 and later.

Edit: Changed 'xxx 7' to 'Mac OS 7' - IIGS User