Description of Frontier: First Encounters
Despite being recalled from the shelves due to numerous bugs, this last incarnation of Elite still got a large following of very dedicated followers.
FFE (also known as Elite 3) sports new ships, items, missions, and a host of new features. My favorite addition is the overall plotline: particular events happen at specific times in the universe rather than all missions being randomly generated as before, and you could take part in them by taking on "hand-coded" missions. The aliens also make their first appearance in this game to complicate things.
Highly recommended, but don't forget to download the patch.
Great news for fans! David Braben's website, The Elite Club, has released the game and Frontier II, the prequel, as shareware :) Now is your chance to legitimate experience what is one of the most underrated games ever made! Fully patched, of course :)
Review By HOTUD
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Comments and reviews
Trusteft 2023-08-05 -2 points
@CLB1966 WTF is your problem? Why the attitude? Thanks for the info, and RELAX for the rest.
o0pyromancer0o 2023-07-26 0 point Amiga CD32 version
This game was never released for CD32. The files in question, including the manuals, are not this game but Frontier: Elite II.
CLB1966 2023-05-22 3 points
In answer to "Trusteft's" question about why this is listed as a "new" item...
That's what this site does when major changes to what's posted are made. For example, a game which was available only in DOS, but gets updated to include a Linux version, will be listed as a "new" item, as well.
Generally, they don't do that if something trivial is added... new screenshots, etc... but they DO if something noteworthy is added. As seems to be the case in this instance. And to ME, that's a very GOOD thing. (If you can't be bothered to look at what's different between a "new" item and an item you've already downloaded previously, that's your own issue, isn't it?)
I hope M.A. keeps doing things this way. So I don't have to miss major new additions to items I've seen previously.
tomato 2022-05-02 0 point
Please note that the patch listed here is for the floppy version and will disable the videos. You will need to get the CD patch from elsewhere, such as http://ffeartpage.com/files.htm
ACL Stands 2021-05-02 2 points
You will need to imgmount this.Just copy the folder within the zip file (Frontier First Encounters - ISO and just add it to your dosbox root directory (sub directory under "Game" on mine then you can just load that folder as a img
so you would have something like this:
mount c Game
KC 2019-11-23 0 point
I have tried everything to get this game to work, no luck. I can get it to load into DosBox and Boxer. I can get the game to load after it loads into Boxer. I can get the patch to load, but still no game.
bartmayor 2019-02-12 2 points
You must use Dynamic core on Dosbox 0.74 or above or the game will crash after the demo.
FoNUS 2016-04-10 0 point
I loved Elite and Frontier but this game i never got to try because i cant get it to start.
If someone knows how, let me know.
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DOS Version
2 MB
DownloadISO Version 298 MB
DownloadPatch 1.06 for CD Version 760 KB
Manual 4 MB
Game Extras
Various files to help you run Frontier: First Encounters, apply patches, fixes, maps or miscellaneous utilities.
759 KB
FixWin98 fix 637 KB
Refcard 946 KB
MiscFull manual 47 MB
MiscFurther Stories of Life on the Frontier 34 MB
MiscCopy Protection Codes 3 KB
Amiga CD32 ROM
- Year: 1994
- Publisher: GameTek, Inc.
- Developer: Frontier Developments Ltd.
Game Extras
Various files to help you run Frontier: First Encounters, apply patches, fixes, maps or miscellaneous utilities.
2 MB
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