>Die PC-Umsetzung damals war von Chris Sawyer

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Frontier and its founder, David Braben, have a long association with Chris Sawyer going back to 1987, when Chris first worked on PC versions of the famous "Elite" and “Virus” games. Frontier has for many years used its own cutting-edge 3D game engine on both PC and console titles.

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