i have decided to experiment with a bbc micro emulator and see if i can get elite running on it (the old one obviously, not elite dangerous). i have run into a problem though, i tried to get the game on the frontier store as it is free but find that i still need to put in payment info, i also have no idea how to set it up when i do eventually get the rom or whatever it is. help and advice would be appreciated.
BBC micro elite
- Thread starter LJITimate
- Start date
The store version comes complete with BeebEm and instructions.
Go to your account at frontier store, go to "My downloadable products", it should be there, along with other stuff, depending on what version of ED you bought.
Heheh, yes. I love it for old time's sake, but like with many old things, we tend to idealize things.
Considering how spoiled we are by modern technology and mechanics, the thing is uncomfortable to play at the best of times.
Heheh, yes. I love it for old time's sake, but like with many old things, we tend to idealize things.
Considering how spoiled we are by modern technology and mechanics, the thing is uncomfortable to play at the best of times.
Pairing up a joystick (in my case an Xbox360 gamepad) improves it a lot. Just make sure that Options->Joystick has a tick next to it.
Edit: just to expand on this, the above will give you basic flight controls - pitch/turn and fire. Add in some more software like XPadder and you can map other joystick controls to their keyboard equivalents. Hence I have the D-pad set for forward/left/right/rear views, the shoulder buttons for speed up/down, and some of the spares mapped to things like target/untarget/fire missile. You'll still need a keyboard for some stuff though, I think.
Last edited:
Maybe. But the original code featured (among others):
Continuous error free operation, no server down time or game breaking bugs, jump ranges and progression rates at enjoyable and challenging levels, more than one galaxy, no griefing, docking computer that never bugs and destroys your ship, harvestable thargons, no exploits, cool packaging with free media and immersion enriching background information.
The current game has none of these.
For a total of 2048 planets. (edit) That are all mostly featureless white circles on a black background. And the lemmings are complaining about beige.
But hey, free is free
Last edited:
I distinctly remember parting with money when I got my copy from Firebird back then.
Not to be pedantic but I can remember a couple of occasions the docking computer failed to perform a flawless docking.
Sucks to be an early adopter instead of waiting 30 years
By all means try out the original Elite (E1) but you can get essentially the same game for free with better graphics by trying Oolite. http://www.oolite.org/
There are also free fan made games of E2 and E3 with Pioneer, and FFED3DAJ respectively. There is a thread on the forums for FFED3DAJ at https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...FED3DAJ-Thread?p=305443&viewfull=1#post305443 I still play FFED3DAJ because the sim/game is more coherent than E4 just lately.
There are also free fan made games of E2 and E3 with Pioneer, and FFED3DAJ respectively. There is a thread on the forums for FFED3DAJ at https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...FED3DAJ-Thread?p=305443&viewfull=1#post305443 I still play FFED3DAJ because the sim/game is more coherent than E4 just lately.
Should we list all of the things that Elite 4 has that Elite doesn't? I think it would be a longer list...
Yeah... I still can't do it. It's very difficult for me to retro-game.
The closest I can come is plugging in a logitech trackball and playing Marble Madness in MAME.
And Marble Madness actually looks better.
The closest I can come is plugging in a logitech trackball and playing Marble Madness in MAME.
And Marble Madness actually looks better.
This is where i've been for ages now, and it's enough of an Elite fix while ED gets all the wrinkles (my personal concerns) ironed out
Eye candy alone is not quite enough for me.