Preserving Hell Fighter Session Directory Server

I had a wave of nostalgia recently and found an old Hell Fighter binary that I haven’t played in easily 20 years. Hell Fighter is an old freeware space battle simulator from the late 90s / early 00s era of PC gaming. I remember playing it on my mom’s old Windows 98 PC I had set up in my bedroom. I might have gotten it from one of those old 100-in-1 shareware discs that were popular at the time. Where I first learned of it is lost to time, but the game was awesome. It featured a fancy battle editor with dozens of ship types, so it was super fun to blow everything up in the game’s sandbox. I distinctly remember it had this weird growling sound on the splash screen whenever you booted the game. It’s incredibly odd to think about now, but that sound is ingrained into my memory and just hearing it brings back all sorts of memories. The Hell Fighter v21.01 splash screen. It growls at you. Two opposing forces duking. Teams of Starfighter, Wyvern, and Hellfighter class ships escorting…