GLFrontier Extended

A fork of GLFrontier (OpenGL Frontier Elite 2) that modernizes the build system and adds cross-platform support, including WebAssembly and Android.

Game Controls

• Ctrl-F11 - Toggle fullscreen.
• Ctrl-E - Toggle hardware GL / original software renderers.
• Ctrl-M - Toggle mouse grabbing.
• Ctrl-Q - Quit.
• Ctrl-F - Toggles m68k menu (cheat menu).
• F - Toggles fps readout.

What's New in This Fork Of GLFrontier

• Added native Android build (APK; no external emulator required)
• Added WebAssembly (Wasm) build via Emscripten for browser-based play at full speed
• Implemented touchscreen support with on-screen controls
• Added a dedicated software renderer using SDL's internal renderer
• Migrated build system to CMake
• Supports GCC, Clang, and MSVC

Dependencies

Automatically managed by CMake or included in the vendor directory.

Required:

• GCC or Clang or MSVC compilers
• CMake

Optional:

• emscripten sdk (only for wasm builds)
• gradle and android sdk (only for android builds)

How to Build

1. Download this repository
2. Create a build directory: mkdir build
3. Change into the build directory: cd build
4. Run CMake: cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
5. Build the project: cmake --build . --config Release

TODO

• Complete set of cheat options
• better rendering (eg: missing planet textures, stop texture jumping)

Acknowledgments

• Tom Morton original author of GLFrontier Wayback machine archive Tom Morton - GLFrontier
• This project is forked from: Pcercuei's Copy of GLFrontier
• Incorporates additional code from: GLFrontier-win32
• sdl2 for windowing and input: SDL2
• physFs for file system (loading and saving save game): physFs
• minivorbis for audio: MiniVorbis
• nuklear for gui: Nuklear
• glad for loading opengl functions: glad
• Rip of the GLU tesselator into a standalone static library: glutess