Obtaining and running Frontier Elite 2/Frontier First Encounters | ||
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Frontier Elite 2 - PC | ||
• Download the shareware version of FE2 from FrontierAstro If you continue to play this game for more than 30 days you should send a £5 registration fee to Frontier Developments | ||
• Frontier Elite 2 may run on your computer simply by double-clicking on the game icon. If not, you will need to refer to the read-me file included in the download. | ||
• A good alternative is to visit the FrontierAstro DOSBox Page. There you can download a program which sets up a DOS environment on your desktop. FE2 works well, as does Elite Plus. This is an effective way of getting FE2 to run on those machines - usually running Windows XP - which refuse to co-operate with any other method. | ||
• There is now a hi-res version of FE2 which can be run on modern PCs. A complete guide to obtaining and playing this game can be found at the glFrontier page. | ||
Frontier Elite 2 - Commodore Amiga | ||
• Download the shareware version of FE2 from FrontierAstro If you continue to play this game for more than 30 days you should send a £5 registration fee to Frontier Developments | ||
• The ADF file in the download should work both on an Amiga, and on an Amiga emulator such as WinUAE | ||
Frontier Elite 2 - Atari ST | ||
• Download the shareware version of FE2 from FrontierAstro If you continue to play this game for more than 30 days you should send a £5 registration fee to Frontier Developments | ||
• The ST file in the download should work both on an Atari, and on an Atari emulator such as Steem |
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Frontier First Encounters - PC | ||
• Download the shareware version of FFE from FrontierAstro If you continue to play this game for more than 30 days you should send a £5 registration fee to Frontier Developments | ||
• This file is unlikely to run on many computers, for several reasons. Firstly, it was written to run in DOS, whereas today's machines all run Windows or Linux etc. Secondly, there are a large number of bugs present which will ruin the game for you, even if you do get it running. | ||
• However, all is not lost. Visit John Jordan's FFE website and download the latest version of JJ-FFE, a replacement for the main executable FFE file. Then simply copy it into your FFE game directory and run it from there. It is compatible with all versions of Windows and almost all the bugs have been removed. This file is not a replacement for the entire game; you will still need to download shareware FFE from FD first. If you don't do this, many features will be unavailable, such as the newspapers, music etc. | ||
• For an interesting variation of the FFE game, visit Anistropic's FFE website and download the executable file from there. Based on JJ-FFE, it makes numerous changes to the balance of the game; shields are now less effective, AI ships behave differently, trading has been made harder, and so on. It is well worth a go, to see if it is to your liking. Run it the same way as JJ-FFE | ||
• There are now hi-res versions of FFE which can be run on modern PCs. A complete guide to obtaining and playing these games can be found at the Hi-res FFE page. | ||
• FFE was released on floppy disk and CD back in 1995; the only difference being the Full Motion Video on the CD version. This is not present in the shareware download (510 MB of video would be a huge download!) and if you want this particular feature - which is not required to play the game and is quite poor quality anyway - you will need to obtain a copy of the actual game CD (discussed next) | ||
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• FE2 and FFE were released in the good old days of PC gaming, when games came in large boxes rather than the uniform DVD boxes of today. Both games were crammed with manuals, story books, posters etc and are much sought after by Frontier fans. | ||
• FE2 should have the following items present:- | ||
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