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Update 01/07/10 Uploaded July's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added scans of the French and Italian FFE game boxes to the miscellaneous page Uploaded June's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded May's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded April's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added a video of FFED3D to the Hi-Res FFE page Added some pictures of the Commodore 64/128 package to the Commodore 64/128 page Uploaded March's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded February's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month A few small amendments to the Running Frontier page Added a new guide to running the original FFE to the FE2 & FFE page Uploaded January's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded December's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added some screenshots to the Tatung Einstein Elite page Uploaded November's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Made some updates and improvements to the Hi-Res FFE page Added a scan of Micro Mart's Elite article to the miscellaneous page, as it features a picture from this website Uploaded October's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded September's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded August's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded July's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added an Easy Menu page to assist with navigating around the website in browsers incompatible with the drop-down menus Added a screenshot - showing a complete list of medals and permits - to the Military Medals page Uploaded June's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded May's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Embedded Elite documentary video in the What Is Elite? page Added a separate picture of BBC cassette Elite to the BBC Elite page Uploaded April's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added three new skins based on FFE D3D to the Winamp skins page Uploaded March's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded February's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded January's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added full details of FFE D3D to the Hi-Res FFE page Uploaded December's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded November's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added genuine screenshots to the Tatung Einstein Elite page and added a picture of the machine to the miscellaneous page Uploaded October's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added a alternate console graphic for Nic's Mod of GL-FFE - designed by Richard Valongo - to the Hi-Res FFE page Uploaded September's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded August's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Some more changes and improvements made to the Elite Intro and BBC Elite pages Uploaded July's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded June's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded May's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added photographs of the various packages from the Elite and Frontier series, plus new content and links from the Elite page Some changes and improvements made to the BBC Elite page Made a couple of changes to the Hubble Gallery page, improving the picture of the Antenna Galaxies and adding a new gallery item Uploaded April's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded March's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Downloads of the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST versions of Frontier Elite 2 are now available, both in English and other languages Added info and links to a Polish FFE download from Polish Elite Federation HQ Added scans of a US advert sheet for FFE to the miscellaneous page Added a brief guide to the Gameboy Elite Demo Added some pictures to the Atari ST Elite page Uploaded February's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded January's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added some pictures and re-wrote the information on the Apple II Elite page Improved the pictures and corrected some factual errors on the MSX Elite page Late update due to ftp problems with the server Uploaded November's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added a page about Tatung Einstein Elite Updated the pages on how to run Elite, Elite Plus and FE2 with DOSBox Uploaded October's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added more pictures to the PC Elite page A number of small revisions, including details of a further mod to hi-res FFE Uploaded September's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added more pictures to the MSX Elite page Uploaded August's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded July's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added some new, better finder maps on the Star Data page Added a page covering Atari ST Elite, a 16-bit version of classic Elite Uploaded June's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded May's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded April's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded March's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added a Frontier Fiction page for the HPA Part 2 to help out with updating the story Uploaded February's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded January's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded December's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added a page dedicated to High-Resolution FE2 Uploaded November's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Made alterations to the Planetary Guide page to reflect the change in status of Pluto and others Uploaded October's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added a section to the High-Resolution FFE page to fix some missing icons in glFFE Uploaded September's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Expanded the High-Resolution FFE page to include the new glFFE Uploaded August's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded July's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded June's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Expanded this page to include all updates since coming online in April 2001 Uploaded May's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month A page all about the great new High-Resolution FFE Uploaded April's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added new images to some of the Elite pages Uploaded March's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added a page covering Amstrad Elite, yet another version of classic Elite Added new images and finder maps to the Star Data page Added three new images to the Hubble Gallery page and improved most of the others Uploaded February's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded new pictures of all the regular ships in Frontier at the Frontier Ships page Added a page covering Oolite, a new version of classic Elite Uploaded January's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Late update due to honeymoon in the Caribbean Corrected some errors and omissions in the Hand-Coded Systems page Uploaded November's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Changed menu system on index page to slide-in menu from left side of screen Added a scrolling information bar to the front page Uploaded October's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added an alphabetical listing of every ship in Frontier at the Frontier Ships page, with savegames of every ship as well! Added French, German and Spanish language versions of FE2 to the downloads page Uploaded September's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Added a page covering Nintendo Elite, one of the best versions of classic Elite Uploaded August's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded July's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded June's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded May's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month Uploaded April's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Uploaded March's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Added two great map programs written by Theunis de Jong, which can be downloaded from the Frontier Maps page
Added Commodore Amiga Elite grabs and artwork to the What Is Frontier? page
Uploaded February's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Uploaded January's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Uploaded December's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Corrected some rather obvious mistakes on the Frontier Hand-Coded Systems page
The official shareware versions of FE2 and FFE are now available for download at the Frontier Downloads page
Uploaded November's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Uploaded October's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Uploaded September's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Uploaded August's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Uploaded July's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
French and German language versions of FFE are now available for download at the Frontier Downloads page
Uploaded June's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Uploaded May's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Minor alterations, including changes to the DOSBox page
Uploaded April's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Uploaded March's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Added a page explaining how to run FE2 under DOSBox, for those systems which have difficulty in running the game
Uploaded February's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Added another list to the Frontier Star Systems section, this one showing all 115 "Hand-Coded" systems
Made a small addition to the How To Play Frontier section, with further advice on running FE2 on Windows XP machines
Uploaded January's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Uploaded December's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Added a new item, compiled by Theunis de Jong, which gives a complete list of all 3,847 Frontier Star Systems which have a population
Replaced the X-BTF skin with a new Frontier Winamp skin based on the Cobra Mk III
Uploaded November's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Added two more Files language versions of FE2 to the Other Languages section.
Expanded and improved the Official Fiction section, with new scans and info included
Uploaded October's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Uploaded September's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Added a page detailing How To Get Frontier, with pictures of the game items included
Uploaded August's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Added EBBS access through alioth.net
Uploaded June and July's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
The Hexed editing program is now hosted here at FrontierAstro. Many thanks to its author, Martin Nohr, for granting permission.
Included a link to a Hexed site in the Earth in FFE page, to facilitate editing of the main FFE file
Added Arc Elite pictures to the What Is Frontier page
Minor alterations made to background colour and scrolling
Uploaded May's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Uploaded April's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Added a useful guide on how to change Earth in FFE into the blue planet it should have been
Uploaded March's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Uploaded February's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
A small addition to the What Is Frontier? section, with a new picture of BBC Elite
A big new Frontier section added, the Frontier Gazetteer which was included with the original game, only now it has been expanded with system info and pictures
Uploaded January's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
Uploaded December's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
A new Frontier section added, listing the various types of Stars & Planets encountered in the game
Uploaded November's star maps , astronomy highlights and Picture Of The Month
The astronomy section now has a Picture Of The Month section, showing a favourite astronomical image each month
Another small addition, this time a page about the Military Medals describing when they are awarded and how to get them all
Added a brief description of the various languages Frontier Elite 2 and Frontier First Encounters were released in, on the Files Languages page
Incorporated all the HST Archive images into one big HST Gallery with a new intro page
Uploaded October's star maps and astronomy highlights
At last, FrontierAstro is fully compatible with the Opera browser, with all pages now displaying correctly
Hmm..... removed the translation facility (it was only online for a day so you'd be lucky if you saw it) because it looked rubbish and didn't work properly
Uploaded September's star maps and astronomy highlights Modifications have been made to most pages to improve browser compatibility
Put new Hubble Space Telescope pictures in the HST Gallery
FrontierAstro now has its own domain name at www.frontierastro.co.uk
Slight alterations to the Mission Problems page
Uploaded August's star maps and astronomy highlights Also made small alterations to layout on some pages
There is now an HST Gallery with a few of the great pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope over the last few years. Pictures in the gallery will change periodically
Uploaded July's star maps and astronomy highlights
Added a Frontier ships guide
Uploaded June's star maps and astronomy highlights
Decided that it was a waste of time and server space keeping astronomy highlights for times of the year when the objects mentioned are not visible. As a result, the highlights for the current month plus the previous three months only are available from now on.
Added scans of Spectrum artwork to the What Is Frontier and Frontier Fiction pages. Tidied up some of the code as well
Uploaded May's star maps and astronomy highlights
Added some Elite Plus pictures to the What Is Frontier page
FrontierAstro is now a member of the FEU Web Ring and has a link on the title page.
Revamped the star data page with new finder charts and Frontier references where applicable. All the stars on both lists now have data pages associated with them
Converted all the jpg files on the star data page to gif files as part of an ongoing effort to optimise loading times and save on server space. FrontierAstro now occupies 12 Mb, less than 25% of allocation!!
Uploaded April's star maps and astronomy highlights
Added a Planetary Guide page in the astronomy section
Changed the source URL for the Moreover web feeds so that the stories concentrated more on astronomy, without the weird results the previous source was sometimes generating
Added Elite elements to the What Is Frontier page
Uploaded March's star maps and astronomy highlights
Changed the pictures on the military info, mission problems and mission guide pages to smaller gif files and re-wrote some of the accompanying text
Added one more FFE skin to the Winamp skins page
Added scans of First Encounters box to the Frontier Fiction pages. Also adjusted scans which resulted in large files and reduced them with JPEG techniques. No graphic file now on this site is bigger than 200k, and most are under 50k :-)
Adjusted the code on several pages, including the monthly star maps, so that they now display better at resolutions higher than 800x600
Animated images added to main page
The moreover web feeds have been restored to the main page, as they are not being withdrawn as I had previously thought. The Universe Today service is no longer featured. A few parts of the main page tidied up as a result.
Uploaded February's star maps and astronomy highlights
A new logo for the new year provided, once again, by flamingtext.com
Oh no! Another Winamp skin added, this time based on Sirocco Station in Ross 154
Small change to colour scheme on index page. Also added a couple of screen shots from FFE
Uploaded January's star maps and astronomy highlights |
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Update 22/12/01
As a result of Moreover's impending withdrawal of free webfeeds, a new
astronomy news source has been placed on the index page, courtesy of Universe Today. FE2
and FFE screengrabs removed to accommodate
Introduced a
distant systems page, giving details on a few remote star
systems where the jaded commander can get away from it all for a
while Uploaded December's star
maps and astronomy highlights which now include items from
more than one month. Also added finder maps for the highlights from
December onwards Added an Elite skin to the
Winamp skins page Two more
problems solved on the
mission problems page Added
another skin to the
Winamp skins page. Updated the
links page Uploaded
November's star
maps Brought online a page of Winamp skins with a Frontier theme
which can be downloaded
here. More skins to be added as time
allows Another small change, adding a scan
of the back of the Dark Wheel novella to the
official fiction page Just a
small change to the front page, with some Frontier Elite 2 pictures
added Added
mission problems page, offering help to commanders when a
mission appears to be failing Uploaded
October's star
maps Added Frontier
star systems list, which contains information on all systems
within Frontier Elite 2 and Frontier First Encounters which contain at
least one starport. This list was originally compiled by Sven-Erik
Lindkvist aka Schwempa but despite my best efforts I have been unable to
contact him. Therefore this list will be removed promptly if he registers
any objection to its use within this site. (Does this get me off the
hook??) Re-wrote large sections of the site to make it more
compatible with screen resolutions higher than 800x600. Some pages work
better than others, and I can't be bothered fixing all the star maps at
the moment, but it should look Ok now at 1024x768 and maybe
higher Ahem. The star maps page works fine
unfortunately my explanation of how they are accurate for various times
during the month was well...erm..completely wrong! As any competent
astronomer will tell you, stars rise 4 minutes earlier each night,
not later. Duh! Uploaded September's star
maps Changed the text font on all
pages to the same one - Verdana. Re-arranged some pages as a
result Added star
maps page, featuring monthly star charts for a selection of
latitudes. Also rewrote some HTML code to provide more compatibility with
Netscape browsers Added military
mission info page, explaining how best to go about getting
promoted. Moved items around on main page to accommodate Index page re-designed. New items in each category ie.
Frontier or astronomy can now be added more easily Small alteration to make dynamic date display more compatible
with Netscape browsers. HTML code provided by
www.dynamicdrive.com
Uploaded a page explaining what
Frontier is all about. Added Frontier downloads to
links page Minor changes
really. Cleaned up the pictures in all the
mission pages to make them more readable. Two new pictures
on the index page. Fixed a couple of broken links Added a couple of sites to the
links page, placed the site links on this page and
introduced a slightly different colour scheme Added detailed
information and star charts for all 12 brightest stars
plus some of the nearest stars. Brought
official fiction review page on line Uploaded page
about site with e-mail contact
address Added star
data page. Also altered index page to fit in links to new
sections Added
links page to site. Also added information on landmarks
and re-wrote HTML code for updates page
Brought
mission information section on line Changed two front page pictures to more terrestrial
subjects Change of colour scheme for
website. Change of background image for clearer reading. Reworking of HTML
code to centralise dynamic date display for any value Changed pictures on index page to show scenes from First
Encounters which can be clicked on to enlarge. Removed unnecessary second
page of screen shots to free up space on server Added date to index page to emphasise daily update of
astronomy headlines. HTML code provided by www.dynamicdrive.com Added a
new, more stylish main logo to the site. This facility provided by www.flamingtext.com
FrontierAstro is online !
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