Elite 30 Years - BBC vs ZX Spectrum Elite - Fight club

ZeeWolf

ZeeWolf
Good video.

Elite ported well onto almost everything. The Amstrad version was ported quickly from the Spectrum code but it had filled coloured planets which I really liked.

Scott Manley did a good video the other day which showed one of the missions in the BBC version.
 

ThereIs0nly0ne

ThereIs0nly0ne
Great review Drew. I had the BBC disk version at the time - I don't remember the graphics flashing - shows you how selective one's memory can be.
 

Milky82

M
My game was the C64 and then Elite+ on the Amiga, happy days indeed. I always felt the sound was better on the Commodores than their rivals.
 

Flavio

F
I did make a suggestion that we should do this at the next FantastiCon if we get enough retro machines with Elite on them.
 

Stoo

Stoo
Milky82 said:
My game was the C64 and then Elite+ on the Amiga, happy days indeed. I always felt the sound was better on the Commodores than their rivals.
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Same here... :)

Imagine if Frontier decided to use current PC technology, and do a new version of Elite... it would be amazingly rich wouldn't it :)

Oh... hang on....
 

S.H.A.D.O

S
I really enjoyed that video. it was great, now how about one comparing the PC and Archimedes versions? ;)

I played both versions, bought the BBC version when it came out then I had a Speccy a couple of years later and bought Elite for that too. I really enjoyed both versions but I agree the BBC version is the better one.

I don't recall the BBC version flickering quite so much, perhaps its an issue with the emulator?
 

Tar Stone

Banned
Tar Stone
That was a wonderful video, great memories.

It's crazy how the low frame rate didn't make a bit of difference in those days. Later 3d games with filled polys running at 2 or 3 fps were still amazingly immersive - remember Driller? Or the amazing Tau Ceti and Academy by Pete Cooke?
 

Antmax

Antmax
I don't recall the BBC version flickering so much. My friends mostly had the Spectrum version and were somewhat jealous of the smooth higher framerate of the BBC. I found the speccy version hard to play on their machines coming from the BBC.
 

Omegahunter

Omegahunter
You're comparing the apparent frame rates of the BBC vs the Spectrum versions of Elite but am I right that you're running them on emulators (PC based)?
If so wouldn't that mean you're only really seeing the differences in how well the emulators are running the code?
To get a true comparison you would need to get hold of the original hardware.
 

CHOPP3R

CHOPP3R
After reading Ian Bell's page I got hold of a NES, Elite for the NES and one of those early analogue joypads for the NES.

Stunning.

Nice review by the way. As soon as I got my dad playing Elite back in 84 he dragged me down to the shop to get the floppy drive and disk version of the game! Woohoo! :)
 

CHOPP3R

CHOPP3R
A trick I used to use in the BBC version was spinning while jumping, often let encounters spin off the map instead of dropping you from your jump, and if you went to the planet information screen you flew faster as the game wasn't rendering.
 

Toumal

Toumal
This review is totally biased and proves that you're just sponsored by Acorn. You'll see, the Spectrum is gonna win the home computer wars.

*shakes fist*

;)
 

Lobstris

Lobstris
What were the 5 missions on the Speccy (128k) version?
I only remember the 'Save us, our sun is going nova!' mission, The funky Asp cloaking device mission and the 'destroy the Coriolis infested with Thargoids' mission for the ECM System Jammer?
 

weaverdh

weaverdh
I had a Spectrum 48k + (the posh one, solid keys not rubber keys). That said, the BBC version was better in my opinion and I tended to play it on a friends computer. :)
 
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