Was getting into planetary orbit a problem in the original game?  I find with high engines & jets, I will easily fly right over a planet but I won't enter orbit because I didn't hit dead center.  Haven't played non-HD UQM though.

Nope. In the original I never had a problem with that, more with the speed and low turning meaning that I aimed bad and was too slow in correcting...

For zoom: Numpad +- were the only ones working in the original SC2.

Yeah, I have trouble with that too.  Accursed Newtonian physics!

Anyone know what code files are involved with key bindings?  Or with the star map?  I doubt it'd be too much effort to allow non-numpad + and - keystrokes.  Wouldn't be my first time programming.  Laptops are a lot more popular now than ye old days of MS-DOS, so it makes sense to correct.

I got all hopefull until I read...

It's bringing back so many memories playing this when I was about 10 years old...

Dang it. Is it possible for someone who didn't play this game back in the day to enjoy it now? Or are we all just a bunch of old gamers reliving the past.

From 8 years in the future:
I played Star Control 2 super-melee at my cousin's and blasted through the Star Control 3 single player campaign.  But I never tried the SC2 single player campaign before now.  Does that count?  

Wanna say thanks for all the beautiful work, too!  It's awesome to play SC2 in a modern resolution, and I know oodles of effort had to go into this. 

* + and - work fine for me. Anybody else having problems?

On my laptop, + and - don't work because it lacks a NumPad.  Only the + and - on my desktop's NumPad work.  Using Windows on both machines.

Was getting into planetary orbit a problem in the original game?  I find with high engines & jets, I will easily fly right over a planet but I won't enter orbit because I didn't hit dead center.  Haven't played non-HD UQM though.