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In this video you'll find the full documentary about the making of Elite with first person declarations by the authors of the game. ELITE was a seminal space trading video game, originally published by Acornsoft in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers. The game's title derives...

Hello Ive just downloaded Elite Dangerous Standard Beta. It is only a windows version. The website says the mac version will be released 3 months after the windows version release. It will be a native app or a wine/crossover based solution. Anyway, if the developers need any beta testing the...

Good afternoon Elite fans! I'm Marcus Baxter, and I'm the Director of the upcoming film, from the Elite universe, Lave Revolution. Many of you will have heard something about this film already, which I will be working on in collaboration with Allen Stroud from Lave Radio, LaveCon and author of...

Are you a twitch.tv or youtube streamer? Check out: http://www.TheEliteArmada.com/ This community dedicated to Elite: Dangerous is accepting partners to stream. Essentially, you get to keep on doing your thing, but your stream has a potentially greater audience. Overall it is a great...

Hello fellow space faring citizens! The Armada is a dedicated group of Elite players that plan to fly together, for all forms of activites. If we are not busy tracking down traders for valuable cargo and fending off bounty hunters you can probably expect us in deep space mining and doing some...

I was very interested in the comments people posted on the thread : Too Hard to Start Limits Audience? http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=16371 ..as it seems to indicate that people want different experiences from ED, which is great. It always was a game which offered many...

http://kck.st/1fYx8Pc ;) this looks so awesome would be fantastic for Elite

Hey Elite community, new here! I love how the game is taking shape but I am wondering on how do you progress further in the game when you have upgraded your ship to your liking [and how long would that take?] earned alot of money and played countless missions? Since we dont have any big...

When you look at the status screen in the original versions of Elite, you see cash, elite rating et.c and legal status. What were the different legal statuses (the first is clean) and what is required to achieve them? Thanks

Okay, as some of you will know, I have been learning how to use Bryce ever since I started my Kickstarter. I'm doing this with a view to producing some artwork and animation/CGI to accompany my book. Each image is a visualisation of part of the story. They aren't "through the eyes" snapshots...

I know there's no shortage of fan-made Elite-related audio features, but in case you're hungry for more the Elite Anthology authors are here to help! I present a new fiction-focused podcast: Comms from the Frontier. Episode 1 is available now, where we talk about what drew us to write for Tales...

Hi, A simple question; it would be quite nice (and pretty cool) if those of us who were previously involved in some capacity or other in Elite could get a unique decal or something to show we were involved way back when. I play-tested the 16-bit conversions of Elite when I worked for Firebird...

Hello all, I'm new to this forum, but I'm an old fan of Elite. I bought it for the Spectrum in summer 1986 and thought I would never play another game again. I also later bought it for my Amiga and then thought I would never play another game again. I've played others in the genre, like X2...

Hi Everyone. In anticipation of Elite Dangerous I've started re-playing the C64 version of Elite on the Frodo emulator on my Mac and have got to the point of buying the energy bomb. The problem is I cannot for the life of me find a way to release it. The manual I have says it's on the C=...

Here it is, guys! The first comic strip for Elite: Dangerous! This isn't the start of a series, but a one-off. I do intend to do a series at some point, but I don't have any ideas for one at the moment, plus I'm far too busy. Anyway, enjoy the first comic strip, Mechanised Cargo. This is simply...

JSSpeccy v2.1 This is a (mostly) accurate recreation of the 48K and 128K Spectrums. Features currently unsupported are: Sound Custom tape loaders Some particularly complex multicolour tricks Tested on Chrome 20, Firefox 13 and Safari 5.1.7. Not sure what to play? Choose a game Elite from this...

What is the Elite logo? I always assumed it represented a phoenix, but looking at the 3d versions that are out there now, I'm not so sure. :S Probably I'm the only one who doesn't know and will look a right dumbatz crank for posting this. :p UPDATE: In the real world (this one) the Elite...

My little bit of fan created Elite material mixed with my love of the Raspberry Pi.... The first issue of PiAddict Magazine has launched! PiAddict is a new independent magazine for all users of the Raspberry Pi. This issue is 'The ELITE Issue' with a review of the Archimedes version of the...

Hi everyone. So, a while back now I was inspired by http://www.ianlawrencemodels.com/smlcobrawip.html which I thought was rather cool. I'd done a small amount of clay modelling before, but nothing like this, so it seemed like quite a big challenge to me - but not an impossible one. So after...

What's the highest Elite ranking you have achieved in your Elite career? This is the highest ranking you have ever achieved, from classic Elite, Arc Elite, through Frontier, FFE, and Oolite? For me, the highest I ever achieved was Deadly on classic Elite (on the BBC and on the Spectrum).

So I realised if I keep making new threads for little poems/songs I write then I might flood the board too much, and it may be preferable to have them all in one place. Below I'll make a post for each poem (helps to have them separated). Comment at your leisure. Requests will be happily...

Quite a few fan creations are starting to emerge, and especially the Signatures thread seems to be very popular with Mobius doing custom work right and left (thanks). I like playing around with graphics, but I don't have the patience and/or time for for the more tedious and time consuming bits...

Someone with more artistic talent than I created this edited version of the original Zzap!64 issue 1 cover, which of course featured the gold medal winning Elite. and here is the original : Source - llamasoft's YakYak forum : http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=83539&start=465

Hi guys, Some of you will have already seen me post about this on the Kickstarter comments, but stuff gets buried pretty quickly there so I thought I'd share it here too. I've started a wiki dedicated to collecting Elite Dangerous game data. Eventually I'm hoping it will provide a great...

Greetings Commanders, This is my first post in this forum. I have been working on a little project over the last couple of weeks. The original idea was to help raise awareness of the kickstarter, because like everyone else here, I wanted to see and play a new Elite game. However, these things...

Hi, first post, be gentle please. I would like to debate the visuals of Elite:Dangerous. While certainly nicely looking, they're just not quite right for me. If you compare them to other space games, these kinda look samey because the engine delivers the same kinda flat spaceship surfaces. If...

Really dumb qustion I'm sure ..... but I have a 29 year old badge that means the world to me .. http://wouter.bbcmicro.net/pictures/software/elite_pins.jpg (the one on the left) .... any plans to continue this ? (a shiny new badge for shiny new Elite:Dangerous players that make it to Elite)...

Hey folks! Didn't see a thread on this, so I figured I'd throw one up. Looking at the Kickstarter FAQ I'm seeing this rather worrisome answer. So this has me a bit blue. :( Clearly we won't have all the ships in FFE, and from the screenshots, it looks like we have some entirely new ships...

I was going to write this directly to David Braben, but then I noticed the forum and decided to join so that people can discuss. Can I make a developmental suggestion? If there is to be an Elite MMORPG, then it has to outflank an established game, Eve Online, which shamelessly ripped off key...

OK I know - but I would really like one. A original instead of the copy that you can get. Has anyone got a badge that they don't want anymore. I will give it a loving home. I reached Elite back in the day, and loved every minute of it. I am really looking forward to any (and I have playied...

Good morning. Hope you enjoyed the Frontier reference as much as I did writing it. ;) I've been writing about Elite in my blog: http://www.weareworstcompany.com/2011/05/20/visceral-games-in-arrested-development-part-one/ I feel very old. *EDIT* We've gotten big enough to need dedicated...