[JGZinv]

I'm reading over the FRED help files trying to get my foot in the door
so to speak in order to start FREDing in small amounts... but I'm noticing
a lot of "this doesn't do anything" listed.

Ex:

Pattern and the other fields below the line in the Nebula panel don't do anything.

Are most of these the same in FRED Open, or should I be looking at/for a list of changes
between it and retail that hopefully tell me what they are used for?

[Mustang19]

You should try FRED Open. It doesn't fix any of disabled features, but it does add several new ones. Go here and look at the "New FRED features" section on the right.

For example, the Nebula panel is left over from FS1 when nebulae were drawn differently.

[JGZinv]

Well I'm using open and don't plan on going backwards...but there's no such thing
as a FRED 2 Open manual from a to z. So I have to start with the retail.

Thanks that should answer most of what I wanted to know.

[karajorma]

The FRED2 walkthrough can be done in FRED2_Open. None of the features have been removed. At worst the buttons have moved a little.

And a couple of the non-working things have been fixed.