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

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...

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.

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

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.

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?

Why not just run it in an emulator or VM? Is there tangible benefit to reimplementing everything, or is it just an intellectual exercise?

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.

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

Would be cool to have a web port of this.

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

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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