The Game

OpenGL Frontier

OpenGL Frontier will work with modern operating systems, has improved graphics, and is simple to install and set up. Tom Morton's site has the necessary links to download the game (with music and sound effects) for Linux and Windows. Simply download the "windows binary" files, extract them directly to your C:\ drive, add the music and sound effects to the same directory, and then execute the "Hi-Rez" shortcut.

Note

I'm not sure if you've heard this before, but the autopilot in GLFrontier is pretty bad. Really bad. If you target a planet, it'll fly you to that planet, keep you at a very high speed and you can't slow down because of the planet's gravity or something to that extent. The point is, you autopilot to the planet, and end up colliding into it. If you target something you dock with (for instance, a space station) you often end up colliding with the walls directly around the space station's docking entry, or the ground. It makes it so if you're new you have to manually dock to plants, which is (in my opinion) hard to do. Also, when going to planets, you'll fly over them, turn back around, fly over again, turn back around and repeat until it properly courses to it. (leading to the speed bug I mentioned above) In essence, autopilot is broken. Kinda sucks for a new player like me who really prefers playing it natively (I run Windows 7 64-bit) because of the good FPS and how well it runs. I don't like playing in DOSBox because of the framerate sucking (yes, I increase the CPU cycles to ~8000).
Thanks for reading. -Justin L.

DOSbox Guide

For information on how to run Frontier using DOSbox, please check the DOSbox Guide.

Archive Versions

The files below are no longer recommended or guaranteed to work. I have received complaints that the password protection has not been removed. I've also been told that the password protection codes provided on this site do not work either. The links below will remain for the time being for the sake of curiosity.