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

 (github.com)

31 points | by elyosh 1 hour ago

4 comments

  • vunderba 46 minutes ago
    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

  • pdntspa 4 minutes 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
  • mysterydip 56 minutes ago
    Really excited to give this a go! Being able to merge the two versions together is a killer feature.
  • electric_mayhem 1 hour ago
    Oh, wow. I loved these games when they were new.

    May need to find a modern HOTAS setup and immerse myself in these.