LHX: Attack Chopper (DOS)

LHX: Attack Chopper

Platform: DOS Year: 1990 Developer: Electronic Arts, Inc. Buy: Amazon

LHX: Attack Chopper is a helicopter simulation with a strong arcade focus. You can freely choose which missions to fly first, and which helicopter to fly in a given mission. There are a total of four helicopters: Apache, Blackhawk, Osprey and LHX. With this fine selection of death machines you will engage countless enemy targets in Libya, East Germany and Vietnam throughout the game.

Screenshots

The title screen. Entering the name. Selecting the map and difficulty. Choosing game mode. Choosing a helicopter. In the game.

Music

Recording

The soundtrack were recorded using emulated sound hardware in DOSBox SVN Daum during gameplay.

The AdLib recording starts with a 1, the Tandy recording starts with a 2, and the PC Speaker recording starts with a 3.

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
101	Main Theme	George Sanger	David Warhol	3:59		Download

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
201	Main Theme	George Sanger	David Warhol	3:15		Download

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
301	Main Theme	George Sanger	David Warhol	3:38		Download

Credits

• Ripper: binarymaster
• Recorder: binarymaster
• Game Credits:
  • Music/Sound Effects: Michael Sanders credited as Mike Sanders
  • Music/Sound Effects: George Sanger
  • Music/Sound Effects: David Warhol credited as Dave Warhol

(Source - from official manual)

Game Rip

Format	Download
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The music and drivers are contained in LHX2.LIB resource file which is compressed with an unknown LZ like compression algorithm.

WinHex and DOSBox were used to get uncompressed files directly from memory during actual gameplay.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

LHX: Attack Chopper has no sound configuration program, but it's possible to specify the needed device as an argument to executable file. PC Speaker is used by default.

To enable AdLib execute:

LHX.EXE adlibsound

To enable Tandy 3 Voice execute:

LHX.EXE tandysound

To enable PC Speaker execute:

LHX.EXE pcsound

Releases

USA Title: LHX: Attack Chopper Platform: DOS Released: 1990-??-?? Publisher: Electronic Arts, Inc.

Links

• mobygames.com/game/dos/lhx-attack-chopper - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.com/pc/915870-lhx-attack-chopper - GameFAQs.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHX_Attack_Chopper - Wikipedia.