Oh, all right then. Three boxed copies on a worldwide search, and two "disc only" listings. I wouldn't have been able to make such a smarty-pants post if I'd gone into the details though
Elite / Frontier Every Version of Elite
- Thread starter loudscotsbloke
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Philip Coutts
Volunteer Moderator
Nice collection
Sadly they are really not that collectable. The original Elite can be picked up for £10 which is less than the original cost! Maybe an unopened pristine copy would be worth more?
Cheers :smilie::smilie:
Is this the drive you are talking about?Well... prepare to be amazed!! I do indeed have all the machines!! I collect computers from my childhood (Mostly 8bit) and have collection of around 60 machines now. I can run Elite in its REAL RAW and ORIGINAL form, on the actual hardware. The only thing I dont have, is the OPUS drive for the speccy.
Some people call me Geek, others call me Nerd. I am WAY WAY further along the scale than either
And to top it all..... I work in I.T.
I think its time for a wee play of Elite..... Lets choose.... Today I think I will play the Archimedes Version. On an actual Arch A310....
ZX Spectrum - Opus Discovery One (1 day left on eBay - UK only)
Some are very rare, and therefore expensive, IF you can track them down. I have been collecting for a long time. I was lucky enough to have 2 copies of the rare Tatung Einstein version of Elite. I recently sold it on ebay to a fellow collector for £120. Yes you can get the speccy tape version for a few quid, but you try and track down the OPUS speccy edition.... if you can find it, it will not be cheap. I know. I have them all
It was (IS!) a truely terrible system. Too many times have I suffered with the Speccy editions because of the lenslock.
OK, I will also post all the pics, as I have complete and working boxed editions for all of the following (in no particular order) ;
- Sinclair Spectrum 48k - Tape - Red Lenslock Edition
- Amstrad CPC - Tape
- Commodore 64 - Tape
- Atari ST/STE Rainbird Edition - 3.5 Disk
- Commodore Amiga Rainbird Edition - 3.5 Disk
- Tatung Einstein - 3inch Disk
- BBC Master 128k With 6502 Second Co-Processor - 5.25 Disk Acornsoft
- IBM PC/Tandy 512k - 5.25 Disk
- Sinclair Spectrum 48 OPUS Edition - 3.5 Disk
- Pocket PC/iPAQ - CD
- Apple II - 5.25 Disk
- NES - Cartridge
- Atari ST - 3.5 Disk - Firebird Edition
- Sinclair Spectrum 48k - Tape - Black Lenslock Edition
- Amstrad CPC - 3inch Disk
- Commodore 64 - 5.25 Disk
- BBC Model B - 5.25 Disk - Acornsoft Edition
- Acorn Electron - Tape
- MSX - 3.5 Disk
- Commodore Amiga - 3.5 Disk - Firebird Edition
- Acorn Archimedes - 3.5 Disk - Hybrid Edition
- BBC Master Compact - 3.5 Disk - Acornsoft Edition
- BBC Model B - Tape - Acornsoft Edition
- Acorn Electron - Tape - Acornsoft Edition
- Commodore Amiga - 3.5 Disk - Elite Plus
- IBM PC VGA - 3.5 Disk - Elite Plus
Phew...
OK, I know its not technically number 27, but I have just been going through my Micro collection, and looking through my software boxes, I pulled out this!! - I remember seeking it out a couple of years ago, but I just stored it away. Anyway.... now its out, and is officially part of my Elite collection.
Do you also have the Amstrad Action issue 100 covertape version for the CPC...?
Ok something I have never seen before.
What is the Leroy Elite Helpbook that comes with this C64/128 version ? I've never seen it mentioned anywhere before.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Firebird...W8xLJALG0On1wrolBKKmc%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc
Anyone have it ? what is in it ?
Sounds like it was not in the original package. I don't know.
@LoudScotBloke can you check your versions and perhaps let us know ?
What is the Leroy Elite Helpbook that comes with this C64/128 version ? I've never seen it mentioned anywhere before.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Firebird...W8xLJALG0On1wrolBKKmc%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc
Anyone have it ? what is in it ?
Sounds like it was not in the original package. I don't know.
@LoudScotBloke can you check your versions and perhaps let us know ?
Never seen anything like that before may have been a US only book.
Some thing which has piqued my interest is this Guinness entry for Elite
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com...rmat-releases-for-a-space-trading-video-game/
Never heard or seen a copy of Elite for the NEC 9800 series(Japan only), so does it exist or is it a mistake.
Leroy's Helpbook for Elite was not boxed with Elite anywhere or at any time. It was written some time later by a company called, Cheatsheet Products. Neither the company nor the author of said book, David Palmer, can any information be obtained through the usual searches.
Ok I need some assistance from the community.
I just got a near mint ZX Spectrum copy of Elite. It does not have a lenslok but everything else is intact....and practically MINT. Seriously the box looks like it is from 1984 as in timemachine 1984. It's perfect.
Anyway from my research whilst a lot of ZX Spectrum versions of Elite came with a lenslok, apparently not ALL of them did.
Can anyone confirm if this is the case or did ALL of them come with it and mine is just missing it ?
Cheers everyone.
I just got a near mint ZX Spectrum copy of Elite. It does not have a lenslok but everything else is intact....and practically MINT. Seriously the box looks like it is from 1984 as in timemachine 1984. It's perfect.
Anyway from my research whilst a lot of ZX Spectrum versions of Elite came with a lenslok, apparently not ALL of them did.
Can anyone confirm if this is the case or did ALL of them come with it and mine is just missing it ?
Cheers everyone.
Philip Coutts
Volunteer Moderator
I think you are right Styggron from my hazy memory I seem to remember something about the lenslok system getting binned because it was so unpopular but I could be wrong.