Case study

FrontierVM 3: a 68000-to-native Frontier: Elite II port

FrontierVM 3 translates a separately supplied 68000 disassembly of the Atari ST Frontier: Elite II into native C or i386 assembly. The repository includes assembler, disassembler and host code, plus an experimental OpenGL renderer alongside the original software rendering path.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 90
Last commit: 2014-03-24
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: An external fe2.s disassembly of the original game; the repository does not provide it.
Limits: The OpenGL renderer is experimental and omits many primitives.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{glfrontier-elite-ii-case,
  title = {{FrontierVM 3: a 68000-to-native Frontier: Elite II port}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/pcercuei/glfrontier}},
  url = {https://github.com/pcercuei/glfrontier},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/glfrontier-elite-ii-case/}}
}

Plain text

FrontierVM 3: a 68000-to-native Frontier: Elite II port. https://github.com/pcercuei/glfrontier (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/glfrontier-elite-ii-case/

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README GitHub · pcercuei/glfrontier · Revision 0a09ada