Elite

I have never managed to dock the effing ship so I can't say I'm mad for these games.

n00b

I remember a competition in a comp mag years ago, where people could win a star/planet named after them in Frontier. Did that happen?

i think you might have to narrow it down a bit

I remember Amiga Power giving it 98%. And I remember the boxed game came with a manual and a Gazetteer, which I thought was the coolest thing in the world at the time. And copy protection like "what is the first letter on the tenth line of page 45 of the manual". If you got that wrong you were attacked by a swarm of police as soon as you took off. I used to get it wrong deliberately to improve my "combat skills".

hardcore

yeah, the girls loved it.

my combat skills were pretty pants though, maybe i should have trained that way. the battle would last for ages, and would end in a single missile taking me out. After all the fucking about with buying commodities and hyperspacing around to the right systems, dieing that quick would really ruin my day.

And did anyone ever get to the centre of the galaxy?

there's no black hole there! they made it up!

This is pretty cool: http://demand.five.tv/Episode.aspx?episodeBaseName=C5134750003

Peter Snow programming Basic, for a start.

enjoyed that

"Sorry this show is for UK audiences only"

DEMAND FIVE IS XENOPHOBIC!!!
I have never heard of Elite.

*ducks*

Have you heard of Five?

Nope. I've heard of 5ive though.

I would watch this, but Five being the wanky channel they are, the on demand site requires Windows Media Player 11, which in turn requires XP SP2.
Anyway, does Snow type

10PRINT"PETER IS GREAT!!! ":GOTO10

notice in interviews bell and braben were not in the same room heh heh

^^^ they're like the gaming equivalent of Deep Purple...

never had a BBC :( spectrums were better anyway :)

Oh fuck off they were... UK 8-bit holy wars FITE!

^^^ sorry, that came off as unintentionally offensive

Anyway, does Snow type

10PRINT"PETER IS GREAT!!! ":GOTO10

and then forget the semi-colon so the text doesn't fill the screen?

Spot on. Who needs Windows Media Player, eh?

BBCs obviously for those with anger management problems

for the fcking thrill of it, i downloaded frontier elite II last night.

after figuring out how to take off and not fall back down to the ground again, i entered air space. and then spent ages with the galactic maps unsuccessfully trying to find the hyperspace option. i never found it. so i flew around one solar system for a while, it was nice.

press H iirc

oh lol. i'm sure an icon would pop up at the bottom tho, if hyperspace was available (due to fuel etc)

I think it did . its a looong time since I played it tbh. and I can't quite shake a vague memory of pressing F8.

a toast to vague memories! http://cap.vapor.com/Frontier/sharoma.com/frontierverse/tutorial.htm#hyperauto oh my lord those screenshots are making me nostalgic.

brilliant!

urgh i still suck at combat in this, goes on forever. and this game would be a beaut if it didn't have so many bugs. my speed gets frozen if i'm on autopilot and it interupts me to do battle.

DON'T GO TO RIEDQUAT

AND WASTE ANOTHER YEAR

tbf in frontier it would probably take that long to work out how many times you have to jump to get there :(

2 billion Harmless Rodents can't be wrong.

Anyone playing Dangerous?

I just had a look at the main web site. It's £40 for the game, but they also seem to want people to buy additional paint jobs for the ships, at £10 a pack!

Well that's me out.

Tempted, but in these days of steam winter sales, £40 for one game isn't happening.

Great game, pops up in Steam sales these days for you cheapskates

how robust a computer would one need to run this, DG?

Why, Stevie, not a particularly hefty one. Quad-core CPU/4GB RAM/3D card with min 1GB RAM. I might as well whack some links in here

Official site

Player gallery

Ship builder

Trade tool (for cheats booooooooooo)

Thanks DG - I shall def consider it

bought in the steam sale, ticks all the old first encounters/ original elite boxes, really enjoying it.
Stevie, my cpu is not fast, 4GB ram and only a Radeon 6670 1Gb, and it keeps a steady 31/32 FPS.

it is £40 today! yikes! do you have to join steam to get the discounts?

but no planet landings?

It drops down to £25 fairly regularly - I'd expect another sale at the start of August to coincide with Gamescom

Talking of which they have a "big" announcement to make abt Elite there, smart money being on planetary landings which they've been hinting at for a while now

Yep

https://www.elitedangerous.com/en/horizons

cool, but pricey ?

ie, this game with planetary landings would now cost me £70 ?

I'll wait for reviews and such, at the moment this game is beyond my reach

If you buy the game now and the expansion later yeah but if you wait till it comes out £40 gets you the expansion and 'base game' (I agree this is a little confusing)

ah right, but won't original buyers be a little pissed at that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OVPOV-aSsg

my memory of this was trying to play it on my Dad's BBC Micro computer as a kid. Everything was white lines on a black background. Every key on the keyboard had a function. I was very good at crashing the thing into the ground.

^^^Elite Plus was the best version, tasty 256 colour MCGA graphics

Still not met a (new) Thargoid

^^^Elite Plus was the best version, tasty 256 colour MCGA graphics

Still not met a (new) Thargoid

:O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-T6VFGzdK4

that vid makes the game seem fun, is it fun?

Not managed to get into Dangerous because my attention is way too short these days. But I fired it up the other night, sat there listening to my podcasts whilst watching ships flying around the spaceport. In vr it was quite nice.

Eventually bothered to try and learn some stuff, combat trained, figured out all the menus and space navigation. Almost gave up after my first mission to hyper-jump to another system was scuppered because a bloody big moon was in the way of my jump.

All in all, think I'm going to revisit as my interest was tickled.