Comments on: Elite 4 for Linux? http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/2834 Embrace your Inner Penguin Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:38:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/2834/comment-page-1#comment-786 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-786 My dreams will come true if the possibility of a Linux port becomes a reality. Elite series games are just so huge, you can play them forever it seems. The gameplay areas are enormous and the games portray they very well. I really miss playing Frontier Elite2 since I switched to Linux.

I wonder if Frontier development would open source elite1 or 2. I would pay big money to even play elite2 in Linux.

]]> By: jameson http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/2834/comment-page-1#comment-787 jameson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-787 AFAIK, they’re not going to release any of these as free software (wouldn’t make too much sense anyway, as Elite and Frontier were written assembly language exclusively (!)). Frontier: First Encounters (plain C) may be made available for porting and enhancing eventually (within the next two or three months); have a look at http://www.eliteclub.co.uk for the details.
Unfortunately, people wanting to work on it will have to sign an NDA, and releases will be binary-only.

]]> By: http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/2834/comment-page-1#comment-792 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-792 I remember playing Frontier Elite, and even First Encounters for a hell of a long time, both were excellent, love to see the lattest version on the linux platform. multiplayer online would be especially cool >:)

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