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[Vahlto]

It is a good thing Abandonia has delivered a version of Elite for downloading! I love the game, eversince I played it on my Acorn Electron, ages ago!

The version that I find the most 'playable' is Elite - The New Kind, which can be downloaded here: http://www.downloadfreegames.co.uk/games/d...oad/newkind.zip
I changed some wave-sounds (for instance the crappy laser-sfx and explosions) for some better ones, and altered the colours on the main scanner as one can see here:


(If you would wish to use this image, you should make it a 256-colour bitmap.)

Awesome site you guys have. I used to play ELITE on my Commodore 128 for hours, if it wasn't for the need for sleep, it would have been days straight. It always amazed me how many galaxies were in that game with hundreds of planets to trade with.

k: :Brain:

[Lord_Scather]

And all the galaxies and Stars are based on the real starcharts, too.

Only I think they invented most of the far-away planets. Nevertheless, the stars are all named exactly. really. go and ask some astro-scientist. :w00t:

same goes with Frontier and First Encounter (Elite 2 + 3)

addition: the stars than can be seen from earth and ARE named, that is

[dr_st]

Uhm... At least in Elite 1 - the stars are TOTALLY NOT named after real planets. It's just pseudo-random jibberish. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to squeeze it all into like 74K.

Speaking of Elite - does anyone know if there's a way to finish the game? And what's with the 9th galaxy? I know that there are 8 galaxies normally, and hyperspacing from Galaxy 8 brings you back to 1. But if you look inside the EXE file you see a string like "Welcome to the 9th galaxy!" Is this a bogus, or is there really a way to get there?

[Lord_Scather]

Ok then...but in Frontier and First Encounter, they are...


But....all the systems in Elite HAVE names, so what's the difference in them being real ones, 72k or no??? :blink:

Where is my C64? Awsome game theat bringd=s back my beginings with computers. I won't tell how old I am.

[MV75]

Originally posted by LotharGR@Jun 5 2004, 06:50 AM
In Elite Plus ( or Elite 2 ? I don't remember ) there was a option of docking automatically in space stations by giving a small amount of money. But in Elite 1... you have to do everything by yourself

Buy a docking computer and press D from memory. It will auto dock then.

i used to play this game when i was a kid and i got to the elite status
and then something strange happend...

they told me that i have to take some people to some planet because this one
is going to explode, and when i flew out from the space station i had a fuel
leak, and so i couldn go to hyper space and i died, i even played a saved game that i saved few days ago and the same thing happend .....i could never play the game anymore....

can someone explain this?

[dr_st]

Originally posted by stype@May 31 2005, 11:33 PM
i used to play this game when i was a kid and i got to the elite status
and then something strange happend...

they told me that i have to take some people to some planet because this one
is going to explode, and when i flew out from the space station i had a fuel
leak, and so i couldn go to hyper space and i died, i even played a saved game that i saved few days ago and the same thing happend .....i could never play the game anymore....

can someone explain this?

Yeah, it is a special mission. You need to buy this thing called "Galactic Hyperdrive" and hyperspace into the next galaxy (for that you don't need fuel). The fuel leak makes it so that you have no chances of surviving, unless you escape to the next galaxy.

should have taught of it myself back than.....damn

it happened to me again just yesterday after i red your post, im playing elite all over again these few days, only now i play it with a cheat, cause im not in the mood playing
6 months to earn some money for the real eqipement, that galactic drive costs money....

anyway i did it , but now i have to do it all from scratch because i saved the begining position over my saved game .... still thinking should i hang myself or just jump of the building...



and one more question .....how many galaxies are there....i got to galaxy number 5 and then i lost the freakin savegame file

does the game have an end?......i remember playing it for year and a half back then....