Starflight Resource Pages

Hey Steven, good to see the site up and running again! I like what you've done to the place.

Needed to give you an update on SFRPG...the active site now at http://www.starflightrpg.com. This URL will redirect to the publisher's page at lulu.com. The site does have the final e-book version available as a download and contains a link for those who want to purchase hardcopies.

Are you going to have the screenshots available again when everything's said and done? Just curious.


Stephen (capi3101)

Thanks for the update and the idea - I've corrected the link and added two pages of slideshow "screenshots" using my old graphics library. Each image is set to show for 2 seconds. If you have any new material or links or even ideas for material, please feel free to mention them.

Love the site, love the game :-)

I was wondering if the title theme (sound/audio) is somewhere available in whatever formats (Midi?). Would make an excellent ring tone for my mobile...

Thanks for making my dream of playing Starflight again come true!! I played, and still have one of the original versions that appeared for the IBM/Tandy. It's been 20 years since then, but this was always my favorite. Even made my own starmap with all the fluxs and locations. It sits pinned to my wall below the poster for the Genesis version.

It was also nice to have all the PC types in one Dosbox version. I word of advice to any who would download this... the plain version of IBM game still has the "Miner's Bug", meaning that if you do too much mining, the game will eventually freeze/crash on the "Scanning New Terrain". Unlike any of the comments I've read here, the IBM version doesn't reset the ground minerals or Eudurium; it remembers every place you've been and what you picked up. If this wasn't true, you could easily have all the fuel you'd every need by visiting the City of the Ancients, but you can only raid the area once.

I recommend doing the million credit starting version. You will still have to make all the discoveries, but without the stress of all that mineral gathering. Starflight was, and still is the best space exploration game ever with Starflight 2 a breath behind!

As an added comment... I can confirm that the Mysterions' message of "1" and "0"s is in fact International Morse Code, and that it was at the time, the office phone number for Binary Systems. I discovered this back in 1986, and had a good talk with Alex, one of the designers. They had put it in there as an "Easter Egg", and didn't think anyone would figure it out. A handful had before I made my own call! It was quite a surprise to find out that it was a "real" phone number!

WOW!
I can't believe that I found your site. The Best computer game I had ever played was Starflight and Starflight 2. I go way back to the com64 days and a time you could have run to several electronic stores (Egghead, Electronic Boutique, Software etc and so on) and rummage through the space sime but these two were the standard for what followed. These games exploded the players imagination.
The next standard came with Origin's Wing Commander and its entire spinoffs. (Side note, I think the creator of Wind Commander was influenced by Star Wars, Star Trek, and Starflight)

Today I am into the new Star Trek Online MMO and I know that If I was able to get my Starflight I and II operational again with m yVista system, I would probably be exploring i tas much as I am exploring the STO universe.

Thank you for keeping this game alive and trying to expand it.

Anthony

I'm disappointed with the lack of spoiler warnings. I have been playing starflight 2 for a couple of weeks, and, after looking at the starflight 2 "miscellaneous" page for a minute, i feel spoiled to the point that i may stop playing.

Very, very disappointing.

WOW!!
thank you so much for this resource.
ORIGINALLY played on Tandy 1000 back during the Cold War.
Bought computer and game from Radio Shack.
Computer is Long gone but still have discs, code wheel, star map with ALL the fluxes, original discs and play and save discs. They're in storage, but I know EXACTLY where they are!!
REALLY got into this when I got an Commodore PC10-2.
That was an IBM Clone with a hard disc (40 Meg) AHHAHAHAH
BUt it was the PERFECT setup for Starflight. IT had an AMAZING Graphics Card for the time, that played color games in Monochrome emulation. It WAS a step down playing in monochrome for a minute, but, I sallied up the cash for a VGA monitor, and reconfigured the card. BOOM! Though NOT as good as the Tandy 16 colors, it was bangin'!!!

Now I get to do it all over again. This is an AMAZING resource.
I know the storyline by heart, so no spoilers to hurt me.
You have INCREDIBLY detailed Mining tips, locations for artifacts and ruins, and even some advance math working in for fuel consumption. YOU ROCK! With all of that info and a LOT of pluck, here is my strategy:

Beef up my engines and my crew ASAP, and go and grab shit. ALL of the good shit.
Laser Force Field helpers
Cloaking device, Flux identifiers
All that. Then go into Gazurtoid space and PIRATE for Endurium and other minerals. Do that for 6 in game months and load up. Obviously log of inhabitable worlds for extra cash, destroy the Uhlek brain world, and and the crystal planet.

It's the SUBTLETIES of the game that make it so awesome....
Get the Dodecahedron, after you beef up engines, shields, armor, lasers, and the right artifacts, fly into enemy space, and ATTRACT them 5 or 6 at a time with the dodecahedron. Then drop the shit hammer on them and take all the fuel!!! MUAHAHHAHHAHAHAH!!! Smack them up and with a cloaking device, they can't hit you. If the DO manage a chance hit, shields, and laser force field will help ALOT, as well as armor. THEY HAVE NO CHANCE. and it; FUN!

Anyway. I am going to get right to work on this. THANK You for putting all this datum together. I'll let you know how it goes in a few months. Party ON DUUDES!