Reach for the Skies for PC DOS

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Reach for the Skies

Online version of Reach for the Skies for PC DOS. A Battle of Britain flight simulator from Rowan Software, published by Virgin Games in 1993. The player fights for the Royal Air Force or the Luftwaffe and chooses between flying as a pilot and serving as the controller who assigns squadrons from the radar room, runs aircraft production and watches pilot morale. Pilots pick from 8 aircraft, from the Spitfire and Hurricane to the Stuka and He 111, never fly alone and can jump into any other aircraft of their formation at any time. The campaign follows the 4 phases of the real battle in the summer of 1940, from the attacks on convoys to the raids on London.

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Title screen

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Intro — Summer 1940, Britain stands alone

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Title screen with copyright info

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Side selection — Royal Air Force or Luftwaffe

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Pilot selection in the squadron ready room

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Role selection — Practice, Controller or Pilot

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Campaign stage selection

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Cockpit view with gunsight

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External view over the patrol zone

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Controller — scrambling Spitfires to intercept a raid

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Released in

1993

Publisher

Virgin Interactive

Developer

Rowan Software

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IBM PC with MS-DOS

Online emulated version of Reach for the Skies was originally developed for the IBM PC and compatible computers, with MS DOS - Microsoft Disk Operating System. It is an OS for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft and released in 1981 as PC DOS 1.0.
MS-DOS was targeted at Intel 8086 processors running on computer hardware using floppy disks to store and access not only the operating system, but application software and user data as well. Progressive version releases delivered support for other mass storage media in ever greater sizes and formats, along with added feature support for newer processors and rapidly evolving computer architectures. Ultimately, it was the key product in Microsoft's development from a programming language company to a diverse software development firm, providing the company with essential revenue and marketing resources. It was also the underlying basic operating system on which early versions of Windows ran as a GUI.