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Katkon Darnok
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.03.25 03:16:00 -
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I came across a vid on youtube today - a "review" of Elite. Brought back memories! I remember first seeing this somewhere around the mid 1980s, if memory serves. Granted, the Commodore 64 was a tad before my time (was more an Amiga 500 guy!), but I did play Elite on a friend's computer.
Incredible how far graphics/gaming has come, but I think the similarities between EVE Online and Elite are pretty darned obvious! A massive galaxy to explore, a rich economy with a heavy emphasis on inter-planetary trade, shooting stuff in space, large space stations etc.... It was all in Elite, many, many years ago.
I liked Elite, and I like EVE. I will say, though, that I really enjoyed docking in Elite - really wish I had to manually dock in EVE!
Anyone else ever play Elite? If you did, this video will bring back memories.
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Spurty
V0LTA Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2014.03.25 04:45:00 -
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PC, Spectrum, Amstrad, Amiga, PC
That's the order of my elite playing systems.
UK computer club I was part of sort of had competitions for trading over the course of 30 mins.
Who made the most money won a sticker or something. Good old days
Almost went kickstarter backer for the reboot ... Almost ... *signature is not allowed on the EVE Online forums* |
Bagrat Skalski
Poseidaon
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Posted - 2014.03.25 07:49:00 -
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I still have this game and C=64. Edit signature? What's the point? |
Ramona McCandless
The McCandless Clan Turing Tested
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Posted - 2014.03.25 07:55:00 -
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Original version 1984 BBC Micro Disc-version of Elite.
Every iteration since then.
Which is why Ill NOT be going to Elite: Dangerous. Love the ships, love the original universe, hate what Braben did to it in E2 and E3. *** Vote MTU For CSM *** "They feel the need to cover their ears and eyes in horror at your very presence." - Pontianak Sythaeryn Omnis nomiom nom nom nomi |
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
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Posted - 2014.03.25 07:56:00 -
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I was stuck on ITS machines and Macs at the time of the first game so my first Elite was Frontier. GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: Newbie skill plan 2.1. |
Sentamon
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.03.25 07:59:00 -
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C-64 old fart reporting in. ~ Professional Forum Alt -á~ |
Ramona McCandless
The McCandless Clan Turing Tested
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Posted - 2014.03.25 08:00:00 -
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Tippia wrote:I was stuck on ITS machines and Macs at the time of the first game so my first Elite was Frontier.
Im sorry. *** Vote MTU For CSM *** "They feel the need to cover their ears and eyes in horror at your very presence." - Pontianak Sythaeryn Omnis nomiom nom nom nomi |
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
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Posted - 2014.03.25 08:05:00 -
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Ramona McCandless wrote:Tippia wrote:I was stuck on ITS machines and Macs at the time of the first game so my first Elite was Frontier. Im sorry. It's ok. I got Wumpus and Radical Castle instead. Also Trade Wars, which in many ways is closer to the EVE lineage than Elite is. GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: Newbie skill plan 2.1. |
Ramona McCandless
The McCandless Clan Turing Tested
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Posted - 2014.03.25 08:10:00 -
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Tippia wrote:Ramona McCandless wrote:Tippia wrote:I was stuck on ITS machines and Macs at the time of the first game so my first Elite was Frontier. Im sorry. It's ok. I got Wumpus and Radical Castle instead. Also Trade Wars, which in many ways is closer to the EVE lineage than Elite is.
Oh ouch. Thats like an icicle plunged through what remains of my heart :(
(I really hated Trade Wars you see lol) *** Vote MTU For CSM *** "They feel the need to cover their ears and eyes in horror at your very presence." - Pontianak Sythaeryn Omnis nomiom nom nom nomi |
Jint Hikaru
Truly Transdimensional The Nova Foundry
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Posted - 2014.03.25 08:21:00 -
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Spectrum then Amiga.
Played Elite, then Elite Frontier. Still have the original box, instructions, galaxy map and game disk for frontier (and a disk with my saved game on).
One day i will find a good emulator and boot that up again.
Jint Hikaru - Miner / Salvager / Explorer / SpaceBum In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. |
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Xearal
Black Thorne Corporation Black Thorne Alliance
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Posted - 2014.03.25 08:37:00 -
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Elite pilot checking in. I actually made it to 'elite' danger level too, freaking hard to get to.
Frontier was okish, though I was part of some of the empire fleet battles in that, that was fun, going after an enemy general protected by a fleet of ships..
After that, I did a lot of turn based and realtime strategy games, friends of mine got me into WoW, while I had heard somewhere about this new space MMO game that was supposed to be like elite.. I went with the friends club, after I got seriously bored and quit wow, I finally arrived in Eve, 3 days into the game went subscription, and also kicked myself a lot for giving into peer pressure and going to WoW when I could have spent those 7 years in Eve..
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Samillian
Angry Mustellid
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Posted - 2014.03.25 08:43:00 -
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Elite on ZX Spectrum.
Still have the Spectrum the original game, book and instructions as well as the evil LensLock you needed to get the access code also an old C60 with my game saves on. NBSI shall be the whole of the Law |
Sturmwolke
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Posted - 2014.03.25 09:38:00 -
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Missed C64 (blame the parents) and caught Elite on the ole 8086. I remembered fondly, 2 players on the keyb ... the navigator/weapons guy (me) and the pilot (my brother) :D That was fun. |
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
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Posted - 2014.03.25 09:59:00 -
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BBC 'B' Elite player here
@Samillian hah at the Lenslok I remember those evil things.
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Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
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Posted - 2014.03.25 10:04:00 -
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Played Elite on the IBM ( 8086 I believe?) \o/ Never got far in the fighting ranks, but absolutely loved the trade (and thargoid invasions yikes)! Then moved on to the X-series, great fun! To finally land in EvE! -áFirst year anniversary of the Caldari Prime battle was a success! Preparations for the first year anniversary of the Battle for Caldari Prime |
Speedkermit Damo
Demonic Retribution Nullsec Ninjas
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Posted - 2014.03.25 10:11:00 -
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Spurty wrote:PC, Spectrum, Amstrad, Amiga, PC
That's the order of my elite playing systems.
UK computer club I was part of sort of had competitions for trading over the course of 30 mins.
Who made the most money won a sticker or something. Good old days
Almost went kickstarter backer for the reboot ... Almost ...
Similar for me.
First played elite on one of thosse huge BBC microcomputers. Then later on the Atari ST (anyone remember them?), and Amiga.
I loved that game. and I'm looking forward to Elite dangerous. Everyone says Star Citizen will be big competition for Eve, but I think Elite dangerous will be the one to look out for.
We're showing our age herte guys. Old farts thread. Don't Panic.
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Muestereate
Minions LLC
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Posted - 2014.03.25 10:55:00 -
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Can't say I remember it. Maybe it was a European phenomena? It sure looks like fun. Perhaps somewhere in those old stacks of 5 and 1/4 inch floppies is a dump. i remember trying to hack the disk system into something that would work. THe basic had a bug in it that messed with random read and writes. We thought we were pioneers but were to find out we were reinventing the wheel. Hashing tables nad direct track and sector access were old hat at ibm. You know when hard drives were called Winchesters and produced visions of rapid fire lever action carbines of the Old West.
The game that really gave me the EVE bug forever though was M.U.L.E. It was a mining game :). You need to keep harvesting a few things to keep the whole thing going. The theme song stayed buried in my head for decades. its still there. I don't think we did any flying at all. It was all resource balancing and reading the terrain.
I probably would have liked ELITE. Our first games were space games but all text based. Landing on the moon with tables of thrust and speed data and then that buggy startrek. first ascii graphics:) We converted them form pdp11 games, the word ported hadn't been used yet in our circles. A port was what you stuck a plug into, usually a seriel cable but it had an RS232 available. It was good for learning how to flip bits but we couldn't afford the printers that attached to it for quite a few years.
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I Riven I
Hedion University Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.03.25 11:37:00 -
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My computers (by order):
- zx spectrum 16k/48k (the one with that needed the external cassette reader) - zx spectrum +2 - Unix PC ($2500) - Mega drive - Game gear - Playstation - PC with P3 800mhz and voodoo graphics card. - PC with P4 ($1000)
.. and from there I got about 3 different computers (mixed/new components such as core2quad, i5, i7 and graphics 8800, 460, 660ti. |
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
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Posted - 2014.03.25 11:37:00 -
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I came from WoW |
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
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Posted - 2014.03.25 11:45:00 -
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Slade Trillgon wrote:I came from WoW Somebody had to
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Jeremiah Saken
State Protectorate Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.03.25 11:46:00 -
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Elite: Frontier was first for me. Can you imagine whole galaxy on one 1,44 floppy?
I'm missing my asp explorer... |
Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
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Posted - 2014.03.25 11:49:00 -
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I actually like the progress from Elite to Frontier. Loved figuring out the most efficient ship and fit for the things I was planning on doing. Pirate hunting in a Asp, courier work with a Viper, military missions in a Imperial Courier. I just never figured out asteroid mining. I'm following the development of Elite Dangerous with some curiosity. Sovereignty and Population New Mining Mechanics |
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
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Posted - 2014.03.25 11:52:00 -
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Jonah Gravenstein wrote:Slade Trillgon wrote:I came from WoW Somebody had to
I was in grad school when all the cool games came out When I was done in 2004 the WoW adds were flashy and colorful. They sucked me in as I had been doing nothing but looking at black and white text and watching sports for 8 straight years. The first time I jumped off of Thundar Bluff my stomach actually jumped up into my throat. After I explored all of the world I found my way into the pvp grounds. I had a lot of fun there but then it got stale quickly. I quite WoW shortly there after. A year later I asked my brother in law if he knew of a good pvp game. He pointed me here and the rest is history. |
Gregor Parud
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Posted - 2014.03.25 12:34:00 -
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ZX81, C64, Amiga, PC
Played elite on the C64 but never on any other platform (they just weren't as good imo). |
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
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Posted - 2014.03.25 12:38:00 -
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Gregor Parud wrote:ZX81, C64, Amiga, PC
Played elite on the C64 but never on any other platform (they just weren't as good imo). No rubber beermat Spectrum 16k? You sir are a heathen.
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akiel thorsen
Taurus Quantum Technologies Taurus Quantum Dynamics
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Posted - 2014.03.25 13:05:00 -
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look up oolite, now available as freeware for a retro fix. yes its elite with a few changes |
Starlight Kouvo
The Artisan Collective Confederated States of EVE
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Posted - 2014.03.25 13:19:00 -
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Acorn Electron - Tape version, still have the box, rule book, extra story, and tape and ship wall chart and key overlay
Check out Ian Bells site for Elite version you can play with emulators from the various versions released. |
Harrison Tato
Barringtons Research The Star harvesters of indeterminate Tenacity
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Posted - 2014.03.25 13:26:00 -
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Yeah, I played Elite on the Commodore 64 back in the 80's. I had the cool headset that you could grunt into to fire the ship's weapons too. I had Starflight for the TRS-80 too. |
Pandora Barzane
Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.03.25 13:29:00 -
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the only versions that mattered: BBC Model B tape, then the floppy version en later the 65c02 second processor version.
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Gregor Parud
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Posted - 2014.03.25 13:31:00 -
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Jonah Gravenstein wrote:Gregor Parud wrote:ZX81, C64, Amiga, PC
Played elite on the C64 but never on any other platform (they just weren't as good imo). No rubber beermat Spectrum 16k? You sir, are a heathen.
C64 master race |
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