Elite! Very possibly!

VeNT · 22 Nov 2006 at 13:29

Pottsey said:
“Talk of emulators isnt allowed here, but you can download Frontier and First Encounters from here.”
Just remember that’s the cut down version of and First Encounters without the videos and its not free. You have to pay after 30days.

for crying out loud Pottsey learn to quote. doing it like that makes your posts hard to read.

Stelly · 22 Nov 2006 at 13:36

for crying out loud Pottsey learn to quote. doing it like that makes your posts hard to read.

I dont know what the hell you mean??

Stelly

melchy · 22 Nov 2006 at 13:43

Pottsey said:
“Talk of emulators isnt allowed here, but you can download Frontier and First Encounters from here.”
Just remember that’s the cut down version of and First Encounters without the videos and its not free. You have to pay after 30days.

Its not really a cut down version as all the game content is there, and lets be honest the video on the CD version wasnt exactly a game changing experience. In fact i'd go as far as to say that i prefered the floppy disk version (as per the site) without all that useless video. When you visit the site, it makes it fairly plain that the software is shareware.

FishThrower · 22 Nov 2006 at 14:41

VeNT said:
for crying out loud Pottsey learn to quote. doing it like that makes your posts hard to read.

it aint that hard, he even made the text bold so people can read it? :confused:

PlacidCasual · 22 Nov 2006 at 18:54

banja said:
PlacidCasual, The Longpigs were great!

I agree

She Said has some of my favourite lyrics ever.

VeNT · 22 Nov 2006 at 22:37

FishThrower said:
it aint that hard, he even made the text bold so people can read it?

its annoying. maybe I'll just have to hunt him down and beat him to death like that guy on the news.

Ugley_Matt · 23 Nov 2006 at 10:39

I was always impressed with just how many star systems could be crammed into Elite and Frontier, plus the fact that a lot of it wass astronomically correct for the local system and used some clever maths to create accurate outer systems

BoomAM · 23 Nov 2006 at 11:06

VeNT said:
its annoying. maybe I'll just have to hunt him down and beat him to death like that guy on the news.

Stop being fussy!

Or i'll petition for everyone to quote in bold whenever they see you in a thread.

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Luke · 23 Nov 2006 at 11:47

I wish this would either be released, or he admit it will never happen.

dafloppyone · 23 Nov 2006 at 13:30

dont think we will be alive when its released

Linwig · 23 Nov 2006 at 18:12

Surprised no one has mentioned GLFFE. It allows you to play FFE at higher resolutions and use anti aliasing. Theres also an updated cockpit mod bitmap which looks a little less blocky. Im playing at 1600x1200 with 4xAA

Instructions how to install the whole lot from scratch to be found here http://www.frontierastro.co.uk/Hires/hires.html.

Pottsey · 23 Nov 2006 at 18:33

“Surprised no one has mentioned GLFFE. It allows you to play FFE at higher resolutions and use anti aliasing.”
Thank you for that link, I have never heard of GLFFE before. Time to run though Elite 3 again.

Vicar · 23 Nov 2006 at 22:27

Sorry,

But Elite on the BBC was excellent, but Elite on the Amiga was the graphics upgrade and game it was and better...., in some ways it missed out on possible Mission upgrades, thats where it ported over from the Beeb to Amiga and missed on much more greatness.... but all in, the Amiga version was excellent. Even Oolite, didnt port well over to the PC, it was ok, but didnt have the far range shooting of the BBC and Amiga versions. It was good, but it didnt have the same feeling.

I doubt we will see a direct port version of the BBC or Amiga version over to the PC, the PC has come way to past us relics of the 80's and early 90's home PC gamers for this game to work now..... Multiplayer sounds good in a way, but I doubt it would work. Purely for players to battle each other in packs, would consider much time and organising, and need a large server for amounts of players playing at irregular intervals for it to work properly. Although it does sound fun, and a lot of it, if you get jhardcore old timers like us invloved.

I never played EVE, but i could see the attraction of it to most of the players who play it, wasnt for me though. But it did seem a kinda natural progression beyond Elite in some ways.

I think Elite should R.I.P and be done with it.

Vic

Trick · 24 Nov 2006 at 00:13

Are you drunk? However, I think you've made a very good point. Elite was indeed a product of the 80s and with home computing in it's infancy it was a game that defined the era of bedroom programming. I think it'll rightly go down in history as one of the (if not 'the') defining moments in computer gaming history. That can't be taken away from Elite, and what it and Braben/Bell achieved in just 64k was staggering. But to think that a re-vamped version can do the same is perhaps a little unlikely considering what we've all seen in computer games over that last 20 years. RIP Elite, you'll never be bettered.....

Vicar · 24 Nov 2006 at 01:38

Trick said:
Are you drunk? However, I think you've made a very good point. Elite was indeed a product of the 80s and with home computing in it's infancy it was a game that defined the era of bedroom programming. I think it'll rightly go down in history as one of the (if not 'the') defining moments in computer gaming history. That can't be taken away from Elite, and what it and Braben/Bell achieved in just 64k was staggering. But to think that a re-vamped version can do the same is perhaps a little unlikely considering what we've all seen in computer games over that last 20 years. RIP Elite, you'll never be bettered.....

Yes very bork drunk.... now, then... was a bit when I wrote it... you still write the same sentiments as me, amen brother....

Dangerous and Elite are very much the same, hic.... Thargoids are the enemy.....

dafloppyone · 24 Nov 2006 at 01:58

heh I experience my very first game bug on frontier in the lave station...the one where you ask that woman who i forget...she wants a lift somewhere but you sell your cabin space or something while shes in it and keep on asking her to get infinate money ;-)

n3crius · 24 Nov 2006 at 06:56

Vicar said:
I think Elite should R.I.P and be done with it.

Nonsense.

Skii · 24 Nov 2006 at 12:16

I have to say as a C-64 Elite junkie, X-3 Reunion does a damn good job of being a modern equivalent.

Scania · 3 Dec 2006 at 01:01

Vicar said:
Sorry,

But Elite on the BBC was excellent, but Elite on the Amiga was the graphics upgrade and game it was and better...., in some ways it missed out on possible Mission upgrades, thats where it ported over from the Beeb to Amiga and missed on much more greatness.... but all in, the Amiga version was excellent. Even Oolite, didnt port well over to the PC, it was ok, but didnt have the far range shooting of the BBC and Amiga versions. It was good, but it didnt have the same feeling.

I doubt we will see a direct port version of the BBC or Amiga version over to the PC, the PC has come way to past us relics of the 80's and early 90's home PC gamers for this game to work now..... Multiplayer sounds good in a way, but I doubt it would work. Purely for players to battle each other in packs, would consider much time and organising, and need a large server for amounts of players playing at irregular intervals for it to work properly. Although it does sound fun, and a lot of it, if you get jhardcore old timers like us invloved.

I never played EVE, but i could see the attraction of it to most of the players who play it, wasnt for me though. But it did seem a kinda natural progression beyond Elite in some ways.

I think Elite should R.I.P and be done with it.

Vic

I have to disagree, I had the good fortune of playing the BBC Master Enhanced version, it was literally the origional, bettered.

I miss my old Beeb.

I'll believe the "New Elite" when its in my hands (no hope held out!)

.one. · 3 Dec 2006 at 02:58

Linwig said:
Surprised no one has mentioned GLFFE. It allows you to play FFE at higher resolutions and use anti aliasing. Theres also an updated cockpit mod bitmap which looks a little less blocky. Im playing at 1600x1200 with 4xAA

Instructions how to install the whole lot from scratch to be found here http://www.frontierastro.co.uk/Hires/hires.html.

Big thx for that i have been playing with out the mod and in a window.
i have the org boxed in nice condition & they were fetching good money on the bay was gonna let go but thought no would break my heart

cheers.