The recommended system for playing ELITE the 1986 version would be and old IBM PC or compatible system a colour monitor and 640K RAM or more as this version of ELITE was programmed to work on a system of this kind. The computer I use to play this game is an Amstrad 1640 PC and works just fine.

MS-DOS:
Windows 95:
Windows 98:
Windows 2000:
Windows ME
Windows XP

The same type of game as before just with more better graphics and sound support, the game has three graphics modes to play with you may chose ether EGA, VGA or MCGA the game looks best in MCGA mode.
Perhaps the best computer to play this on is a 386 16Mhz with 2MB and a VGA graphic adapter this is the system type I use.

MS-DOS:
Windows 95:
Windows 98:
Windows 2000:
Windows ME:
Windows XP

For playing FE2 this can be played on a modern PC the only problem being that the game requires quite a lot of EMS memory in DOS 6.2 you could run a program called "memmaker" to configure your memory in order to run FE2. But most modern PC's don't have "pure DOS" installed in them. The best system to run this game on would be a 486DX 66Mhz or a Pentium 60Mhz with DOS 6.2 and 8MB or more you might also need a DOS mouse driver you can download one from the downloads page.

MS-DOS:
Windows 95:
Windows 98:
Windows 2000:
Windows ME
Windows XP

Playing FFE this can be played on most modern PC's but I have heard of a problem of running this game in Windows ME but works fine on Windows 9x but you must shutdown in to MS-DOS mode and you will still need a DOS mouse driver.

To play FFE in Windows XP, ME, 2000 you can use JJFFE see the Links page.
Screenshot of JJFFE in Windows XP

MS-DOS
Windows 95:
Windows 98:
Windows 2000:
Windows ME
Windows XP