"AndyJ's FFED3D Mod" it's AndyJ's Mod for FFED3D. I meant must be anything like that "most recently in FFED3D and AndyJ's FFED3D Mod".
Elite / Frontier A Brief History and Guide to the Previous Elite Games
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Good point. I've changed it to say "AndyJ's Mod of FFED3D" - that's what the FFED3D bugfixing thread used to be called, and it strikes me as more readable than any of the alternatives.
I am waiting the download of Elite Dangerous to complete... after more than 20 years I am going to fly again in Elite universe!
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In the Original game you flew a Cobra Mk III, the Mk I was not available until the release of FE2.
A great read thanks. I was totally hooked on the original Elites and lost a lot of my life to them. I had always missed them when they disappeared into the world of yesteryear tech and became unplayable for one reason or another.
For someone who played the original Elites (me, in this case) I find this to be interesting:
Elite was always a game of the imagination. Elite Dangerous and EDH have just expanded the scope of imagination exponentially from the original game (and with new content coming the expansion still continues).
Without understanding how this game fires the imagination you end up with a lot of complaining about grind. I still consider Elite to be one of the major sandbox games.... it's only what you make it. For me (and others) there is no grind.
Imagination and exploration equals adventure gaming!
For someone who played the original Elites (me, in this case) I find this to be interesting:
Elite was always a game of the imagination. Elite Dangerous and EDH have just expanded the scope of imagination exponentially from the original game (and with new content coming the expansion still continues).
Without understanding how this game fires the imagination you end up with a lot of complaining about grind. I still consider Elite to be one of the major sandbox games.... it's only what you make it. For me (and others) there is no grind.
Imagination and exploration equals adventure gaming!
Acorn Electron Elite - £12.95
BBC Elite (tape) - £14.95
BBC Elite (disc) - £17.65
The other 8-bit versions, I'm not too sure of. There were so many!
Frontier: Elite 2 - if memory serves that launched at £29.99.
Frontier: First Encounters - guessing £29.99 as well?
Elite on the Spectrum was also £14.95 ... Crash magazine November 1985.
Oooh... No price in this (p)review from the same month, but Your Spectrum was my preferred magazine at the time so it was the source that I looked for first...
And I just noticed now that I look back at the images - the S graphic for the space-station "safe" zone doesn't match the Crash version, the disc threat indicator is decidedly wonky and the font is very much the Sinclair standard... Exactly like the 128k compatible Firebird "Gold" release that I learned to patch when I got it for Christmas '86! ("Every Version of Elite" thread)
So maybe the Gold version was simply a preview build prior to the addition of the lenslock protection. I wonder if it was different/lacking in any other way?
Oooh... No price in this (p)review from the same month, but Your Spectrum was my preferred magazine at the time so it was the source that I looked for first...
And I just noticed now that I look back at the images - the S graphic for the space-station "safe" zone doesn't match the Crash version, the disc threat indicator is decidedly wonky and the font is very much the Sinclair standard... Exactly like the 128k compatible Firebird "Gold" release that I learned to patch when I got it for Christmas '86! ("Every Version of Elite" thread)
So maybe the Gold version was simply a preview build prior to the addition of the lenslock protection. I wonder if it was different/lacking in any other way?
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After reading this, I guess the boxed video game I bought and played way back in 1994 was Elite 2. (This remembering exercise is very exhausting.) I missed the games that followed and wasn't really in the lore of the game. I just liked how the physics of the space ship flying was very different from the other games (e.g. Privateer, etc). I remember playing Oolite a bit. Then, the X-games came out, specifically X3 Reunion, if I remember correctly. It was fun but buggy. So, I was glad that Mr. David Braben resurrected the video game. Unfortunately, I had a little detour with buying the NMS game (which I heard is better after the update). And I still enjoy playing the game at its present state. Maybe when the game has reached a certain number of online players we won't need those pesky NPC ships any longer; I am kidding.