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B-17 Flying Fortress World War II Bombers in Action

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B-17 Flying Fortress World War II Bombers in Action
B-17 Flying Fortress World War II Bombers in Action cover
Developers
MicroProse
Release dates
DOS 1992
Windows (DOSBox) November 19, 2021
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Vehicle combat
Vehicles Flight
Themes World War II
Series B-17 Flying Fortress
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B-17 Flying Fortress World War II Bombers in Action is a singleplayer first-person and third-person vehicle combat game in the B-17 Flying Fortress series.

General information

Official publisher Discord server
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
Steam
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Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\B17.CFG
Windows <path-to-game>\game\B17.CFG[Note 1]<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1634450/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\*.BSG
Windows <path-to-game>\game\*.BSG[Note 1]
<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1634450/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA, MCGA

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) 16 MHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) VGA
MCGA


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.
  3. 3.0 3.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1634450/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1634450) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References