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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. It debuted at the February 1985 Macworld Expo, where Silicon Beach, "a startup company that could barely afford to be at the show, created a sensation" (David Bunnell, Macworld).
The first download is a near-mint disk image of a revised version dated August 1985.
The second, strictly for historical interest, is an approximate reconstruction of the initial Expo release. It's incompatible with the 128K Mac, among other minor differences.
A free demo without any airborne enemies was distributed as Banzai! (third download).
Fourth download is a dsk image made especially to work with Mini vMac.
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Video of this game:
https://youtu.be/tEH7fml5Jl0
Awesome old school game! Here is what I did to get this game running... using Mini vMac 3.3.3 booted the "hfs20M.DSK" image which boots into System 7.0.1. Then I dragged the Airborne!.image file on to the 7.0.1 desktop. Desktop shows the Airborne! disk. Open the disk, run the game. Don't try to copy it off. If you get an error about an alias file, click through it and try again. It should work fine. I did not have any luck booting the System 6.0.8 disk first and then running Airborne - it just opens and closes. I hope this helps everyone trying to get this game running.
-Ronzo
Another great one. Loved that guy landing on the cactus. Rarely survived more than one or two jets myself.
Updated with full scans from my (sealed when bought !) original Airborne!, including 'manual' and disk image.
Enjoy !
Gaël
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.
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.
Isn't this an earlier version of "Banzai!"?
A amazing game!
I'd like to see an original dc42 of this.
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.
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
I used to love this game.
Anon,
You're going to have to use an emulator. Here's a list of emulators:
http://macintoshgarden.org/guides
> "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?
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?
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