I journeyed to deep in space trying to get to the galactic centre core though I found very few space stations to get repairs I used my escape shuttle when the ship self disintegrated through lack of rapairs.
Elite / Frontier Frontier on the Amiga
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FE2 on the Amiga 1200. Was love at first sight. And it became a lifelong wait for a worthy successor (not counting First Encounters, because of a long hiatus from gaming).
I desperately tried to love the 'X' series but found it very constrained. I voiced my opinion on their forums which lead to A) General hate and flaming B) "What's Elite?". That was my exit.
In the beginning of the new millenium I lurked like a sad gargoyle on Frontiers Forums swooping up every possible sign of a new title, and when it was finally announced...Oh my. The tears of joy. Fanboi? You bet. I wear that badge with pride.
I desperately tried to love the 'X' series but found it very constrained. I voiced my opinion on their forums which lead to A) General hate and flaming B) "What's Elite?". That was my exit.
In the beginning of the new millenium I lurked like a sad gargoyle on Frontiers Forums swooping up every possible sign of a new title, and when it was finally announced...Oh my. The tears of joy. Fanboi? You bet. I wear that badge with pride.
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I have a vague memory of that...Too long ago. The forced misjumps was heavy fun tho.
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Played for tooooo long. My Amiga had the 68060 accelerator so it was 'silky smooth' !
Always, to chart far off gas giants, just like now (but without cheat jump)
Frontier was defiantly superior to dangerous; i was in my early teens and spent days building up my ratings. Used to love the realism. Remember The 'jousting'? It left a little to be desired, although I managed to get to deadly!
The jousting was only an issue if you kept the engines on during combat. It wasn't the enemy ship moving too fast, it was you constantly thrusting in that direction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UMIbdN0UFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UMIbdN0UFE
Yeah, I wish that guide had existed when I played Frontier... As much as I loved it the combat was a problem for me because I didn't understand it
Sorry to crash the amiga party, but i played elite (or elite plus) on the ZX spectrum 48k, and frontier on the Atari ST520FM (and later the STE).
Never played first encounters as i couldnt get a copy.
Very glad elite dangerous is as addictive as all the old skool games. Just cant stop playing.
Never played first encounters as i couldnt get a copy.
Very glad elite dangerous is as addictive as all the old skool games. Just cant stop playing.
Late to the party.
Currently I play GLFrontier that offers the option to use the original Amiga graphics. The musics are also the same (it's a shame that the sound effects aren't so faithfully reproduced).
This morning I was on Chan's Camp, at Masseyworld (Arcturus) for refuel on my route to Altair, carriyng paying passengers.
During take off I was so lucky to catch this beautiful sunrise with Arcturus behind the industrial zone of the city.
Currently I play GLFrontier that offers the option to use the original Amiga graphics. The musics are also the same (it's a shame that the sound effects aren't so faithfully reproduced).
This morning I was on Chan's Camp, at Masseyworld (Arcturus) for refuel on my route to Altair, carriyng paying passengers.
During take off I was so lucky to catch this beautiful sunrise with Arcturus behind the industrial zone of the city.
GLFrontier is actually based off of an emulated Atari ST version of the game...
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GLFrontier is actually based off of an emulated Atari ST version of the game...
Cool! I play GLFFE, but didn't know there was a GLFrontier. Have to give that a go.
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Didn't spot the link but am familiar with the game - I'd forgotten about it though, and haven't put it on my latest PC. Cheers for the reminder!OT I know... but did you spot the link beneath my sig too? An alternative to GLFFE
I lost a lot of my life to the original Elites back in the day. A lot of that was on my Amiga 1000.
Thinking back to those pioneering days I'm still glad that floppy discs went the way of the dodo. I was so glad when optical storage finally arrived but by that stage I had moved on to PC.
Almost 1000hrs into EDH now and this game rocks. I always missed Elite when I finished playing it in the 1990's.....
Thinking back to those pioneering days I'm still glad that floppy discs went the way of the dodo. I was so glad when optical storage finally arrived but by that stage I had moved on to PC.
Almost 1000hrs into EDH now and this game rocks. I always missed Elite when I finished playing it in the 1990's.....
I remember when I've tried to play Elite II fan-translated to Polish, but... well, apart from buggy translation (not translators fault, there were some programming issues limiting quantity of letters, which with the fact that Polish language have longer words than English was quite difficult to overcome), I have to this day a quite problem to get off from starting planet without being shot or fined