I think a lot of the value of a total rewrite in C is that it is a buildable executable that should be runable on virtually any system, given that this game predates the popularity of the modern "3D Card". A lot of the friction in these games is dealing with all the peculiarities of getting a DOS game to somehow install on a 30 year newer Mac. A complete rewrite eliminates all of that awkward installer friction, so long as you have the necessary game files.
vunderba 2 hours ago [-]
Oh yeah, I completely agree even though DOSBox (or DosBox-X) is fantastic, it’s really nice to be able to potentially run a game natively.
I only mentioned GOG because it’s probably the easiest legal way to obtain the original assets necessary to use OpenTIE.
kevin_thibedeau 21 minutes ago [-]
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?
felixding 2 hours ago [-]
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.
kensai 37 minutes ago [-]
Wow, I thought this could not be possible. May I ask, where did you grow up? I mean, in the 80s the Star Wars were already a cult thing.
LeBit 33 minutes ago [-]
If your parents thought cable TV was too expensive, even a North American kid could have no idea what Star Wars was until they became a teenager , had access to a BBS and saw jpegs of princess Lea.
modeless 53 minutes ago [-]
Would be cool to have a web port of this.
xyzzy_plugh 1 hours ago [-]
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 3 hours ago [-]
Really excited to give this a go! Being able to merge the two versions together is a killer feature.
hackyhacky 2 hours ago [-]
Why not just run it in an emulator or VM? Is there tangible benefit to reimplementing everything, or is it just an intellectual exercise?
apetresc 2 hours ago [-]
A quick glance through the README would demonstrate the litany of improvements you can expect from a proper decomp/port, compared to emulation.
ceejayoz 2 hours ago [-]
"high-resolution rendering and substantially more advanced lighting" and several other items are documented as improvements in the link.
pdntspa 2 hours ago [-]
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
Singletail 2 hours ago [-]
Thrustmaster FCS & WCS MK1 for me. And as much as I'd love to play it again, it will never be the same.
electric_mayhem 3 hours ago [-]
Oh, wow. I loved these games when they were new.
May need to find a modern HOTAS setup and immerse myself in these.
herri 1 hours ago [-]
[dead]
Rendered at 02:08:48 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
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
I only mentioned GOG because it’s probably the easiest legal way to obtain the original assets necessary to use OpenTIE.
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.
May need to find a modern HOTAS setup and immerse myself in these.