The Video Game That Maps the Galaxy

Re:The Video Game That Maps the Galaxy by ldite on Thursday July 10, 2014 @07:54AM (#8014604)

For people interested in playing Elite 2 & 3, some impressively dedicated fans have disassembled the original executables, and re-engineered them to use DirectX, high resolution models, fix gameplay bugs, etc:

http://www.eliteforever.co.uk/games.html

http://www.frontierastro.co.uk/Hires/hiresffe.html

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Re:The Video Game That Maps the Galaxy by maglevfield on Thursday July 10, 2014 @08:40AM (#8014718)

I recommend the originals as those enhanced versions are either buggy or unfinished.

http://www.eliteforever.co.uk/downloads.html

Also get this JJFFE patch if you're gonna try Frontier: First Encounters, also has a Mac version.

http://spacesimcentral.com/ssc/files/category/154-jjffe/

The BBS talking face videos from the CD-ROM version can be found here

http://ffeartpage.com/util/ffevid.zip

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Re:The Video Game That Maps the Galaxy by ldite on Thursday July 10, 2014 @12:31PM (#8015559)

I recommend the originals as those enhanced versions are either buggy or unfinished.

Yes, but they're impressive technical achievements - disassembling a DOS game and completely rewriting its rasteriser and I/O subsystem.

Anyway, even if you don't use the D3D or OpenGL versions then JJFFE is well worth using over the originals; it fixes a lot of horrible physics (and texture) bugs, and adds some very useful things like keybindings for manual control of the lateral thrusters.

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Re:The Video Game That Maps the Galaxy by maglevfield on Thursday July 10, 2014 @07:29PM (#8017990)

That's why I also included JJFFE in there.

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