Hurrah; I have finally completed Conflict: Freespace!
A while ago I got a copy of Freespace, and got about two-thirds of the way through it but then had to stop as, for reasons I can’t fully remember, I no longer had access to a joystick.
However, for some reason, last week I decided to finally rectify my joysticklessness problem and ordered a shiny new Saitek Cyborg Evo. With this, along with a shiny new set of Freespace and Freespace 2 CDs (some of my old copied discs had died and since it costs next to bugger all these days I thought it worth getting a proper copy) I was able to finally take another stab at the game. Accordingly, I have done little else this week, and finally completed Freespace 1 this afternoon.
I have now installed Freespace 2, fs2_open and FSPort and have just begun the Silent Threat expansion (which I can only play through FSPort, as the FS/FS2 set that I got didn’t include ST).