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

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.

mysterydip

Really excited to give this a go! Being able to merge the two versions together is a killer feature.

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

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

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?

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.

modeless

Would be cool to have a web port of this.

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?

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.

darthcircuit

There’s also a great mod for the original x wing game that adds beautiful new models and textures. Makes it feel very modern which is impressive given how old the game is. https://www.moddb.com/mods/xwvm/news/xwvm-alpha-20251116-dow...