Frontier Special Edition

The usual disclamer: This game has been modified on my free time and is available for free. You are not allowed to include it in paid "hard drive compilations" sell or 'adapt' it in any way, shape or form! If you paid for this game you got scammed, ask the seller for a refund at once!

Here is an updated version of this great space exploration game with the following changes:

• The copy protection has been cracked.

• All changes from unofficial update 1.0 by Skinhead/ICS are included.

• All 7  languages from the Amiga/PC releases are included (the Czech and Polish versions are hex edit jobs, and don't use any characters specific to those languages).

• The bulletin board ads now have highlighted words, making them stand out and more legible.

• The intro benchmark hack from Badwolf is included.

• 'Load in TT-RAM' and 'MALLOC in TT-RAM' flags are switched on for faster loading and performance.

• Several bonus savegames are included in the SAVES folder.

• The German version also includes all (text) fixes from this patch: Aminet - game/patch/FrontierGerman.lha (it also fixes some star systems that were unreachable because their names were too long)

Note that none of the graphical glitches have been fixed. Those are obvious on very fast configurations like the CT60.

The game is hard drive compatible from day one, still needs 1 MB of RAM, and won't try to access frive A: when loading/saving a commander file.

All those buggy star systems that used to crash the game seem to be fixed. Even jumping to Beta Lyrae is possible now.

The commander editor from Alien/Pompey Pirates is included in the SAVES folder.

The game is harder overall, because of some of the changes from update 1.0 Also, not everything has been fixed, so expect bugs and crashes and save often.

Download Czech version - German version - English version - Spanish version - French version - Italian version - Polish version (last update 26.07.2026).

Download source code (last update 22.07.2026).

Download the old Wormhole calculator (untested, I don't know if it is compatible with the changes from Update 1.0).

Download the Update 1.0 docs in hypertext format.

Some credits/sources of information:

Sharoma > Frontierverse - Frontier: Elite 2 

RobSis/fe2router: Map tool for game Frontier: Elite II 

pcercuei/glfrontier: Reverse-engineered version of Frontier: Elite II 

Frontier: Elite 2 - Graphics Study 

Frontier: Elite II Walkthrough & Guide - Amiga CD32 - By whowasphone404 - GameFAQs 

FrontierAstro - dedicated to Elite, Frontier and Astronomy 

FFE Starsys 

Update log

• 22.07.2026: Fixed a stupid crash when accessing federal & imperial HQ on the bulletin board.

• 22.07.2026: Cleaned up the source code & corrected a few typos.

• 22.07.2026: Contact names are now displayed above their picture (instead of the generic starport name) when you click on a bulletin board ad.

• 26.07.2026: Reverted/switched off the crack from Frontier Special Edition as it caused more harm than good, so events like the landing tax, Elite federation 'good work' messages should be back. Those annoying and constant pirate attacks even in the core systems might occur less often too. The older crack from Cynix is still activated, so any answer to the password queries will be treated as correct.

• 26.07.2026: Incorrect space background colour after hyperjump or exiting an F3 status screen is fixed (minor original game bug).

Here are some miscellaneous pictures: