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Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance

Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance

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Comments (24)

  • chucksmash
    Loved these games. Grew up playing them with a yoke + throttle controller my dad bought for MS Flight Simulator. Didn't have the specs for Tie Fighter to run well but X-Wing worked great. I'd angle a clock radio next to the yoke for a little more of a cockpit vibe plus to change up the soundtrack.So much joy being at that age and in that era of computing/gaming. Hope people are able to pass that same feeling along to the current gen in some way, shape or form.
  • vunderba
    Very nice. Looking forward to irritating the Empire again as a new recruit [1].On a more serious note, there's also a really great conversion that ports the original TIE Fighter over to the later X-Wing Alliance engine [2].And of course if you need copies of the originals, they still sell them over on GOG (Good Old Games).[1] - https://imgpb.com/AoSwyrZ[2] - https://www.moddb.com/mods/tie-fighter-total-conversion-tftc
  • felixding
    The original Star Wars: TIE Fighter was one of the first computer games I played as a teenager. The funny thing is, I had absolutely no idea what Star Wars was, but somehow I still thought the game was really cool and played it for quite a while.
  • hackyhacky
    Why not just run it in an emulator or VM? Is there tangible benefit to reimplementing everything, or is it just an intellectual exercise?
  • kevin_thibedeau
    How is it that FS mechanics are dependent on which release you have available? It all seems to key off of TieProfile_UsesTie98Logic(). Why can't you enable that with just the 95 release?
  • xyzzy_plugh
    I am not a mobile gamer by any means but...I think I would really like a Tie Fighter mobile port.That being said I still remember all the keybindings of Tie Fighter...... and the correct sound card settings for my Pentium.
  • mysterydip
    Really excited to give this a go! Being able to merge the two versions together is a killer feature.
  • modeless
    Would be cool to have a web port of this.
  • pdntspa
    Cool! I played the original with a joystick back in the day. I tried the previous port to XWA with Tie Fighter more recently, and it had been so long that I couldnt even complete the tutorial with the joystick! Proper gamepad support would be clutch
  • electric_mayhem
    Oh, wow. I loved these games when they were new.May need to find a modern HOTAS setup and immerse myself in these.
  • herri
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