Airline Tycoon
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Developers | |
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Spellbound Entertainment | |
Publishers | |
Infogrames | |
Release dates | |
Windows | August 1998 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Scrolling, Side view |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Business |
Art styles | Cartoon |
Themes | Contemporary |
Series | Airline Tycoon |
Airline Tycoon | |
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Airline Tycoon | 1998 |
Airline Tycoon First Class | 1999 |
Airline Tycoon Evolution | 2002 |
Airline Tycoon Deluxe | 2003 |
Airline Tycoon 2 | 2011 |
Key points
- The game sold in English speaking countries as Airline Tycoon was actually Airline Tycoon First Class.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail |
- This game is not available digitally.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Spellbound Software\Airline Tycoon\1.0 |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Savegame\Game*.dat[Note 1] |
- Saves are
game0.dat
togame11.dat
.
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Gameplay is capped at 20 FPS. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Windowed
Launch the game with -window attribute
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Use DxWnd |
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Notes
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Environment, Messages, Speech, Effects, Planes. Music can be only turned on or off. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | Demo version only. | |||
German | ||||
Polish | Local retail version only. Details | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | [1] |
Issues fixed
Low framerate on modern operating systems
Run the game in windowed mode |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 6 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | Smacker |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 133 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 400 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 2 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Airline Tycoon (Infogrames Brasil) - cover. - last accessed on May 2023