Elite / Frontier Is this the real deal? Elite manual 1984.

[starman]

Starman seems to be excelling at necromancy recently. Check out that game design university thread where he's trying to have a conversation with posts that are ten years old!

Using all the powers woosh

 

[Arry]

Using all the powers woosh

Something I find strange. In 85 I had a Dragon64. I had an integrated software, spreadsheets, database and word processor. It came on a massive disk in a paper sleeve; like a 7" record. The funny thing is, that all worked, really well; on 64Kilo-bites of RAM. These days; most machines won't even switch on; without a least a couple of gigabytes, of RAM. That is a million times the memory.

 

[starman]

I had no such nice things like internet and online manuals, when somewhere in 1986 I bought my first computer (a C64) and with it a bunch of unknown (and partially dubious origin) floppy discs. No manual, no nothing. Elite was one of the first games that I pulled out of this chaos, at least the first one that really and dramatically made me interested then addicted. If you want to be in my shoes, then try to solve this riddle without ever looking into a manual. Good luck...

How did you bypass security that required the entry of a word from the manual of a given page. Now that they know your copy was not legit they will be coming after you.