Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance
31 points by elyosh 2 hours ago | 4 comments

vunderba 45 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

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pdntspa 3 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
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mysterydip 56 minutes ago
Really excited to give this a go! Being able to merge the two versions together is a killer feature.
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electric_mayhem 2 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.

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