Nice story of the OP.
Many Cmdrs have followed this way.
Elite is a great family.
Many Cmdrs have followed this way.
Elite is a great family.
Wow!!.. I need a bigger Hard Drive..
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Yeah, Star Trader was good fun! Also, Federation of Free Traders (on Amiga, at least for me) was also highly entertaining.
[video=youtube;102N1L9EolY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=102N1L9EolY[/video]
I to went from the ZX80 to ZX81 (surprising how much less capacity you got for the same size ram) then went to the 48k Spectrum where I was introduced to Elite in 1985, I had an Atari ST to run Frontier on.
Well if the electricity goes I understand the game runs on steam as well.
Great find.
And EDSM doesn't know of this system yet. So there are two possibilities:
a) you're the first CMDR to find that system or
b) you made some error when typing in that system name
Since you seem to be playing on a PC (VR is rather limited otherwise...), you could consider getting an EDSM account and run one of the EDSM feeder programs, like EDMC or EDDiscovery. The latter also serves as a fully automatic logbook, while EDSM (with an acount) can keep track of your travels and show them to you on a nice map. There are reasons to not install these apps - the two main ones beeing that you'll have to give them some credentials (at least EDDiscovery needed them before 3.3) and that, if you're trading, you'll habd out the trade data to everyone who wants to look them up on e.g. eddb, possibly ruining a profitable trade route.
Or
C) he doesn't use EDSM plugins.
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FOFT!!! I"m glad I'm not the only one who remembers that game... It was great but rather buggy. Wasted many an hour trading on that game. LOL
Hey boxer.....Remember citadel? "citadel citadel superior software presents citadel" First time i ever heard a computer speak sent me running from the room shouting its talking its talking.
Also,
"Welcome to Repton 3 from Superior Software"
Even had the ability to make your own levels. That was pretty cool,especially back then. Happy days....
Going back to the 'Windows(C)ME' OS era.. (I know it wasn't the best!!).. There was a very good program called "BeebEm", which was a 'BBC B' emulator.
It had many of the old game's saved as file's on 'built in' floppy disc's !! Elite, being one of them. It had 'BBC basic' built in too, so you could write programs and save them on simulated floppy's, and loads of other stuff..
I have a copy on disc somewhere... Not sure if it'll work with Win10 ?? I still have Win8 on my laptop, I'll have to dig it out and give it a try..
I know Elite(1984) is available as a "Free" download from the Frontier store.. I presume that does work with Win10, else it wouldn't be there..
Maybe worth a 'look', if you feel nostalgic..
"Load CMDR Jameson Y/N ??"
Happy days...
It had many of the old game's saved as file's on 'built in' floppy disc's !! Elite, being one of them. It had 'BBC basic' built in too, so you could write programs and save them on simulated floppy's, and loads of other stuff..
I have a copy on disc somewhere... Not sure if it'll work with Win10 ?? I still have Win8 on my laptop, I'll have to dig it out and give it a try..
I know Elite(1984) is available as a "Free" download from the Frontier store.. I presume that does work with Win10, else it wouldn't be there..
Maybe worth a 'look', if you feel nostalgic..
"Load CMDR Jameson Y/N ??"
Happy days...
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Beebem is still available, including win10.Going back to the 'Windows(C)ME' OS era.. (I know it wasn't the best!!).. There was a very good program called "BeebEm", which was a 'BBC B' emulator.
It had many of the old game's saved as file's on 'built in' floppy disc's !! Elite, being one of them. It had 'BBC basic' built in too, so you could write programs and save them on simulated floppy's, and loads of other stuff..
I have a copy on disc somewhere... Not sure if it'll work with Win10 ?? I still have Win8 on my laptop, I'll have to dig it out and give it a try..
I know Elite(1984) is available as a "Free" download from the Frontier store.. I presume that does work with Win10, else it wouldn't be there..
Maybe worth a 'look', if you feel nostalgic..
"Load CMDR Jameson Y/N ??"
Happy days...
Great post thanks for sharing Commander. You've even managed to inspire me to reinstall. A better video card after tax refunds to utilize the 4k 55 inch lcd as a computer monitor is likely my next move come tax refund time. I've heard so much about VR and Elite over the years I am tempted to give it a shot at some point eventually as well.
Cheers for the info.. I'll look it up if my copy doesn't work..
Going back to the 'Windows(C)ME' OS era.. (I know it wasn't the best!!).. There was a very good program called "BeebEm", which was a 'BBC B' emulator.
It had many of the old game's saved as file's on 'built in' floppy disc's !! Elite, being one of them. It had 'BBC basic' built in too, so you could write programs and save them on simulated floppy's, and loads of other stuff..
I have a copy on disc somewhere... Not sure if it'll work with Win10 ?? I still have Win8 on my laptop, I'll have to dig it out and give it a try..
I know Elite(1984) is available as a "Free" download from the Frontier store.. I presume that does work with Win10, else it wouldn't be there..
Maybe worth a 'look', if you feel nostalgic..
"Load CMDR Jameson Y/N ??"
Happy days...
Im not sure of its status but there is something called oolite aswell.
Edit: Wow. I googled oolite just to see. Seems like they improved it sinse i last looked. Looks really good tbh, im gonna have to download it myself i think.
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So this is very off topic even though its about the topic...from a not entirely sober perspective. So before ye even think about taking me seriously, no offence intended to those with no sense of humour but I need a giggle from this place and this thread gave me a wonderful idea. Obviously if I was sober, this might not be a great idea and I wouldnt have even thought of this but hey...this is what forums were invented for back in an age before about half of ye were even born.
Lemme explain before I forget what Im blithering on about...this thread title appears in my browser as ¨Wow!!... I need a bigger hard...¨
So anyway, me bein me I thought it might be fun to have a little game of Fill in the blank...
Happy new year ye noobs ^
Lemme explain before I forget what Im blithering on about...this thread title appears in my browser as ¨Wow!!... I need a bigger hard...¨
So anyway, me bein me I thought it might be fun to have a little game of Fill in the blank...
Happy new year ye noobs ^
