hi,
I'm andrea from italy, I'm a long-time fan of frontier and a programmer.
I made a small patch to the game I'd like to submit: it changes the controls of the ship in free-flight.

with standard frontier,  you have to use shift and enter to thrust the ship, on/off style, and only for the fore/aft thrusters.

with my mod, you can control every thruster in a substantially more precise way:
enter and shift for fore/aft thrusters, J L for right/left , I K for top/bottom, all with smooth 0-100% transition in thrust 
depending on the time the key is held down ... more easy to try than to explain in words.
something like descent, but with inertia.

having control of bottom thrusters should help to take off from planets with strong gravity, something which happens sometimes ... I didn't tried yet, don't remember a planet/ship combination ... if you do, tell me.

it also becomes different, and for me is more fun, to dock to stations without autopilot.

moreover, fighting is different too, with the ability to rotate around a target, always facing it, maybe with a low power pulse laser to rebalance the added degrees of freedom.

... or for scooping stuff around ... 



on the technical side:
I recently fell in love (again) with DOS and particularly assembly programming, and some years ago I discovered this powerful tool which is IDApro, of great use when reverse engineering binaries.
I managed to obtain recompilable assembly sources after some working on the game and I modified some bits here and there ... this mod is simple, effective and releaseable, so here it is.