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The original Elite PC game (1984) Free at Elite Dangerous website

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    I'm a bit young for the 1984 one but I spent some crazy amount of hours on the sequel Frontier: First Encounters.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    yeah, been thinking of buying in to get the new one, but i don't have nearly as much free time (i.e. none) since getting married and having kids.

    i think i'll have to just hang up my space pirate boots and leather chaps for good. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭branners69


    Elite was a cracking game back in the day! I must load it up to show the kids, I doubt they will be too impressed!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    Never got to grips with Elite Frontier on the Amiga. It just seemed like vast space where absolutely nothing happened.


  • Subscribers Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭Draco


    Anyone got a link to a working BBC Micro emulator the mac that this will work with?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 19 rtfm


    Add http and www to g7jjf.com/beebemmac.htm
    Sorry - boards wont let me post a URL :)

    Doesn't require X11 apparantly which is missing from the latest MacOSX version anyway...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭imitation


    Never got to grips with Elite Frontier on the Amiga. It just seemed like vast space where absolutely nothing happened.

    I loved it as a kid, it was a massive galaxy you could travel and do what you want, it still impresses me that they fit it onto a few megs. Admittedly my young mind filled the large blanks it had, but man was it fun.


  • Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Downloading now. 6.7 mb :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭branners69


    MarkR wrote: »
    Downloading now. 6.7 mb :D

    :eek: How long did that take to download! You should plug in a 56k modem and download it old style!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    imitation wrote: »
    I loved it as a kid, it was a massive galaxy you could travel and do what you want, it still impresses me that they fit it onto a few megs. Admittedly my young mind filled the large blanks it had, but man was it fun.

    Indeed the galaxy is vast as was frontier galaxy. An impressive feat, I do not doubt. I just needed more interaction. What ever the case brings back some memories.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    imitation wrote: »
    I loved it as a kid, it was a massive galaxy you could travel and do what you want, it still impresses me that they fit it onto a few megs. Admittedly my young mind filled the large blanks it had, but man was it fun.

    So I'm the only one who only ever used to horse it back and forth repeatedly from bernard's star trading goods (luxuries and livestock I think?) for days until I had enough for a decent sized ship and heavy duty guns? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,928 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Fantastic OP.. cheers :)

    Loved this back in the day.. I had the Amstrad CPC version - green screen and a tape drive :)

    Been watching the new one as well.. think I will need to buy a new laptop first though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Loved this back in the day.. I had the Amstrad CPC version - green screen and a tape drive :)

    I was posh, I had the Amstrad 6128, proper disk drive and everything! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭imitation


    vibe666 wrote: »
    So I'm the only one who only ever used to horse it back and forth repeatedly from bernard's star trading goods (luxuries and livestock I think?) for days until I had enough for a decent sized ship and heavy duty guns? :D

    I did the same thing, I got a good few upgrades but I got fed up well before I got to the top of the range stuff. Then I hit paydirt, there was a trick on the amiga to increase the cargo space infinitely on a ship. At first I used it to haul insane amounts of toxic waste out to the middle of nowhere and dump it at great profit and quickly upgraded to a kick ass super ship. Then I realised that if you got something really small and stuck a freighter sized hyperdrive into it you could jump a quarter of the way across the galaxy. It was also fun being able to fire a particle accelerator that produced a beam 3-4 times the size of your ship. Good times (for a nerdy kid !)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭Etnies


    Was looking at the new one of this, was tempted to buy the beta, but there's all these super nerds with flight sim controls that are gonna rape you face every time you try to do anything :x


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,928 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    imitation wrote: »
    I did the same thing, I got a good few upgrades but I got fed up well before I got to the top of the range stuff. Then I hit paydirt, there was a trick on the amiga to increase the cargo space infinitely on a ship. At first I used it to haul insane amounts of toxic waste out to the middle of nowhere and dump it at great profit and quickly upgraded to a kick ass super ship. Then I realised that if you got something really small and stuck a freighter sized hyperdrive into it you could jump a quarter of the way across the galaxy. It was also fun being able to fire a particle accelerator that produced a beam 3-4 times the size of your ship. Good times (for a nerdy kid !)

    I remember discovering a Cloaking Device on the Amstrad version (dont know if other versions had that?). It was epic... unlike the Star Trek version you could fire while cloaked although it did kill your energy reserves when you used it.

    The activation key was undocumented though and you only got it by picking up a cargo canister in the middle of a battle. Cue frantic pressing of every damn button on the keyboard! :p (it was Y btw)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,821 ✭✭✭phill106


    imitation wrote: »
    I did the same thing, I got a good few upgrades but I got fed up well before I got to the top of the range stuff. Then I hit paydirt, there was a trick on the amiga to increase the cargo space infinitely on a ship. At first I used it to haul insane amounts of toxic waste out to the middle of nowhere and dump it at great profit and quickly upgraded to a kick ass super ship. Then I realised that if you got something really small and stuck a freighter sized hyperdrive into it you could jump a quarter of the way across the galaxy. It was also fun being able to fire a particle accelerator that produced a beam 3-4 times the size of your ship. Good times (for a nerdy kid !)

    Wasnt that in frontier elite II?
    I did the same thing, clicking underneath the radioactive waste and jettisoning :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 210 ✭✭kyeev


    vibe666 wrote: »
    So I'm the only one who only ever used to horse it back and forth repeatedly from bernard's star trading goods (luxuries and livestock I think?) for days until I had enough for a decent sized ship and heavy duty guns? :D

    Hehe, that was my route aswell.
    Except I never managed to shoot down a single ship.
    When I took on assisination missions, I used to drive my "panther" ship (I think it was), which had massive shields, and run them over pretty much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,821 ✭✭✭phill106


    kyeev wrote: »
    Hehe, that was my route aswell.
    Except I never managed to shoot down a single ship.
    When I took on assisination missions, I used to drive my "panther" ship (I think it was), which had massive shields, and run them over pretty much.
    The key to combat in it was to turn off auto pilot and use the mouse to follow the target. BAM!
    I think i wound up with an osprey with a class 7 hyperdrive and a plasma accelerator...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭imitation


    phill106 wrote: »
    Wasnt that in frontier elite II?
    I did the same thing, clicking underneath the radioactive waste and jettisoning :)

    Yeah, it was indeed. For the original elite, I spent like an hour docking once, and decided that I could hack the hassle of grinding up the docking computer.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,505 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    Is it possible to share the file that's been downloaded (I mean legally)?
    I really don't fancy signing up to yet another site that's gonna send me emails :)


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