Frontier: First Encounters

Frontier: First Encounters (DOS, 1995) has a decompilation, videogamepreservation/jjffe, and 2 other public projects, including an open-source reimplementation.

Data checked 2026-10-12 · unbaked registry

Projects

JJFFEarchived

DecompC/asm (John Jordan's reverse-engineered FFE)35 starspushed 2015-06-02no license

John Jordan's reverse engineering of Frontier: First Encounters.

Playable; halted ()

glFFE

ReimplementationC, Assembly, SDL, OpenGL

OSGC status: playable; development: complete; game already in catalog; this project is a different project type for it

MacJJFFE

ReimplementationAssembly, C++, SDL

OSGC status: playable; development: halted; A Mac OS X port of JJFFE; game already in catalog; this project is a different project type for it

What you need

Check each project for what game data it needs. Code here is linked, never game files.

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Found via corpsofengineers/ffed3d, osgameclones.com/, opengaming/osgameclones/blob/master/games/g.yaml, frontierastro.co.uk/Hires/glffe.html, opengaming/osgameclones/blob/master/games/m.yaml

GitHub data checked 2026-10-12. Notes are summaries from the research pass; the project pages are the authority.