Elite / Frontier Nostalgia

kvisr

kvisr
I've so badly got the Elite itch again I couldn't wait and gave Oolite a try. it took a while to configure a BBC keyboard layout but other than that no problems running it.

First trip out, food and textiles, approached for docking and scrapped the inside of the docking tunnel loosing half the cargo. "Ah, damn!" I thought, I remember that. Anyway, sold the remaining cargo and stocked up on machinery for the return trip. I make it nearly to the planet when low and behold the pirates turn up. So I spend the next 30 mins poking at them with a pulse laser and was happy to make two kills but just couldn't nail the Asp as I couldn't hit it with enough contiguous damage. In the end I decided to draw it into the 'S' zone and let the cops deal with it which is exactly how it played out. Lined up for docking, CRASH! "Game Over. Press space to continue"

Yeah, it's all coming back to me now, like saving at every station. :(
 
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Styggron

S
Hi there kvisr,

I loved this into this thread as it was a post about Elite / Oolite.

Yes Oolite is indeed excellent. There are a number of OXP expansions you might want to look at especially textures such as Griff Industrial and Famous Planets to give the graphics a nice bit of polish.

I can also recommend snoopers to get newspapers, Armoury for some extra weapons, Auxiliary Fuel tank is also quite useful.

I have been playing Oolite since 2006. I adore it.
 

kvisr

kvisr
I will definitely be looking to expand it and see what else it can do as it was interesting to see an Anaconda with a 4 cobra escort form up outside a station. It makes the space outside a station a lot busier. However, have to up my docking skillz first and fit that large cargo bay.

I feel like a vet coming out of retirement. :cool:
 
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Comandante

Comandante
Tribute

Oolite is a tribute from a massive community, on a massive scale, that shows the effort that people put in and shows just how much Elite has touched people's lives.

The funding success is again a much stronger echo of the people wanting this to happen.

I've got almost all (non-conflicting) OXPs installed and it's a great game.

Elite: Dangerous is going to be amazing.

In the meantime, keep enjoying Oolite, and the old emulator versions. And as ever, stay away from the Arcturan Megaweed :)
 

Kerrash

Kerrash
Comandante said:
Oolite is a tribute from a massive community, on a massive scale, that shows the effort that people put in and shows just how much Elite has touched people's lives.

The funding success is again a much stronger echo of the people wanting this to happen.

I've got almost all (non-conflicting) OXPs installed and it's a great game.

Elite: Dangerous is going to be amazing.

In the meantime, keep enjoying Oolite, and the old emulator versions. And as ever, stay away from the Arcturan Megaweed :)
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Personally I have only been playing Oolite for a short while, until now I have been mostly playing Frontier on an Amiga Emu.

Best I have found so far:
breakpointUK said:
Frontier: Elite II Special Edition

I released this last year for anyone that emulates or has an Amiga

more info at link...

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=57905
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I really hope the modding community takes on E: D after release. It would be great to see the same level of support in years to come.
 

Ving

V
Here's some more nostalgia...

This is the only game I have owned that is still boxed:



And check out that genuine 1984 Spectravideo joystick, complete with auto-fire mode! Now if only I could re-wire it for USB :D
 

Coll inder

Coll inder
Ving said:
Here's some more nostalgia...

This is the only game I have owned that is still boxed:
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And check out that genuine 1984 Spectravideo joystick, complete with auto-fire mode! Now if only I could re-wire it for USB :D
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Did those spectravideo joysticks use switches so not a proper analogue one like the official BBC sticks, which I had until my little brother broke it. But he bought another one because he liked playing Elite too!
 

Steve

Steve
Hmm, should be a competition card in there as well. Did you send it off? Big mistake! :p

BBC_packC.jpg
 

Ving

V
Yup, no competition card...I must have sent it off :eek:

The joystick doesn't make an audible click when you move it, which I seem to remember some of them doing, so it may or may not be analog :S
 

ozoli

ozoli
The competition ended in March 1985 so it is very likely that later printings did not include the the competition post cards. This was the case for the Acornsoft release for the Acorn Electron, although those versions can be identified by differences on the back of the box.
 

Antaniserse

Antaniserse
Ving said:
Yup, no competition card...I must have sent it off :eek:

The joystick doesn't make an audible click when you move it, which I seem to remember some of them doing, so it may or may not be analog :S
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Back in those day, they weren't analog at all.

The "clicking" ones used individual microswitches, and that was generally regarded as a more precise and durable type of contact.
The "mute" ones were usually built with a somewhat cheaper type of contact, with some kind of plastic plate pushing the contacts on a small printed circuit, like this: http://www.howstuffworks.com/joystick1.htm

The classic Atari 2600 stick and many other were all of "mute" kind, while microswitch models came a bit later, notable example the glorious Competition Pro 5000, still my favourite stick of all time :)
 
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