Retro segment

[DocBambs]

Hi

I saved up to buy the version for the Acorn Electron - it came out a few weeks after the original BBC Micro version and had to be loaded from tape. I played it for months, attaining the rating Deadly, but never quite making it to Elite.

Later I played the Archimedes version. Until ED came out, I'm told it was considered the best version based on the original Elite game.

I have shown the original BBC version to my 10 year old son on an Android tablet emulator. He was not at all impressed!

DB

 

[Wolfe3]

Eh, i loved the music from the c64's sid6851, especially if made by Rob Hubbard and a few others like Matt Gray, Chris Hulsbeck..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYUb_VI-_9o

Sorry should of clarified but 80s music suxs lol

 

[mads marshall]

elite ruined my exams. well thats my excuse. i started on a spectrum plus but then upgraded to a C64. I'm as addicted now as i was then.

 

[Jungleboy26]

48 years young had it on my acorn electron......sorry couldn't help myself.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Hi

I saved up to buy the version for the Acorn Electron - it came out a few weeks after the original BBC Micro version and had to be loaded from tape. I played it for months, attaining the rating Deadly, but never quite making it to Elite.

Later I played the Archimedes version. Until ED came out, I'm told it was considered the best version based on the original Elite game.

I have shown the original BBC version to my 10 year old son on an Android tablet emulator. He was not at all impressed!

DB

This guy is Mostly Harmless, and ended his post with "DB".

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It's David Braben people! David Braben is here, incognito like!

 

[Flash_Baggins]

I was curious how many of the younger players have played (or even youtube'd) the earlier instalments of Elite?

I got 1984 off the store with the emulator

 

[Deleted member 110222]

I got 1984 off the store with the emulator

I keep meaning to do that.

How are the controls? Guessing it's M&K?

 

[Flash_Baggins]

I keep meaning to do that.

How are the controls? Guessing it's M&K?

I have no idea, I just sit there with the pdf in the background Telling me what to do, I decided I wont need it, and proceeded to spam buttons at which point ED loaded and I closed it

 

[LostLegend]

I have no idea, I just sit there with the pdf in the background Telling me what to do, I decided I wont need it, and proceeded to spam buttons at which point ED loaded and I closed it

Reminds me of the manual that came with Frontier: Elite 2

It was like a science textbook... Not a high school one, like one of those 700 page almanacs they give to physics post-grads... :|

 

[marmo]

48 years young had it on my acorn electron......sorry couldn't help myself.

Awww the Electron, fond memories of this one, it looked good and had a fab keyboard, not enough killer games though.

 

[Stealth Gamer92]

I was curious how many of the younger players have played (or even youtube'd) the earlier instalments of Elite?

24, and have downloaded and play the elite game that's free on the frontier store.

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22 in a month here.

I've not had the chance to play earlier games, but I have watched a whole load of YouTube videos.

It only adds fuel to my secret wish that I was an 80's kid.

I actually think I'd feel more at home in the 60's, thing's were simpler back then.

 

[DocBambs]

This guy is Mostly Harmless, and ended his post with "DB".

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It's David Braben people! David Braben is here, incognito like!

ROFLOL

I do remember watching him on the TV talking about Elite - computers were never sexy in the 80s, but they were suddenly
something...


DB (no, not that one)

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ROFLOL

I do remember watching him on the TV talking about Elite - computers were never sexy in the 80s, but they were suddenly
something...


DB (no, not that one)

BTW If any of your are based in the UK and wanted to try Elite on the early Acorn, C64, Spectrum, etc... head over to the Retro Computer Museum in Leicester. They have almost every 80's home computer you can imagine and are normally quite happy to accommodate special game requests.

DB

 

[iconoclypse]

Reminds me of the manual that came with Frontier: Elite 2

It was like a science textbook... Not a high school one, like one of those 700 page almanacs they give to physics post-grads... :|

Since when have you ever met a physics post-grad? And no, 'she' didn't count.

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Awww the Electron, fond memories of this one, it looked good and had a fab keyboard, not enough killer games though.

Erm, Ravenskull, Codename Droid (not to mention its prequel), Thrust, any Repton, EXILE    !!!!

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ROFLOL

I do remember watching him on the TV talking about Elite - computers were never sexy in the 80s, but they were suddenly
something...


DB (no, not that one)

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BTW If any of your are based in the UK and wanted to try Elite on the early Acorn, C64, Spectrum, etc... head over to the Retro Computer Museum in Leicester. They have almost every 80's home computer you can imagine and are normally quite happy to accommodate special game requests.

DB

Been meaning to head over, but didn't know they did requests. 'Hey, bud, 'ave you got Sexy MF, by Prince'

 

[Greyza Badger]

First played Elite on a BBC Model B when me and a few mates volunteered to be the Guinea Pigs for a new-fangled computer science course. Nobody was convinced there was any future in these electronic curios. I still stand by that

 

[marmo]

I remember all those battles with the anti-piracy Lenslok on my Speccy, it added at least an hour to any gaming session.

 

[mung0]

I remember all those battles with the anti-piracy Lenslok on my Speccy, it added at least an hour to any gaming session.

Wow.. Had a speccy but never elite on it, that lenslok thing looks SUPER fun. Played elite on a friend's beeb, never realised there was a spectrum port else I'd have definitely got it.

I do remember the daft code card thing that came with jet set willy though, funfact it annoyed so many people some computer magazine back in the day actually published a type-in hack to skip the copy protection that someone had mailed in to the code corner section.. Ah, the eighties..

 

[marmo]

Wow.. Had a speccy but never elite on it, that lenslok thing looks SUPER fun. Played elite on a friend's beeb, never realised there was a spectrum port else I'd have definitely got it.

I do remember the daft code card thing that came with jet set willy though, funfact it annoyed so many people some computer magazine back in the day actually published a type-in hack to skip the copy protection that someone had mailed in to the code corner section.. Ah, the eighties..

And the thrill of playing the 18 Rated The Evil Dead when I was way too young. It was more boring than scary haha #the80's