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[Nilex]

So I just encountered the same Loading error issue. Thought maybe it was due to cracked copy protection so I tried true 1987 vanilla but same error occurs.
Cause is too complex for me to try and explain but at least the solution is easy. Download the fix from here (by ripsaw8080, who else):
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=142211#p142211
and run ELFIX.COM before ELITE.COM. This will enable loading the commander save.

Catalogue listing still wont work however. The price of advancing our technology too far

From (distant) memory, there was a special UFO trader flying around somewhere in the ganme as well...

...Never met him myself, but apparently he was hidden in the code somewhere. Moves around too, since no one had apparently managed to come across him.

Ah well, another one for around the campfire, eh? ^^;

i just put this game on my laptop and the controls are kinda different and it looks a bit different to some stuff in the screenshots in the manual. well anyways my space bar fires instead of a, and i cant find anything to slow down/speed up so i cant dock and therefore cant get very far in the game LOL. anyone have any ideas?

9 galaxy... if you still see this hyper jump once hyper jumping (just sfter you press the button) start going up and hold down the key, you go to a galaxy full of blood thirsty ufos

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9 galaxy... if you still see this hyper jump once hyper jumping (just sfter you press the button) start going up and hold down the key, you go to a galaxy full of blood thirsty ufos
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I don't recall a 9th galaxy as such...... but am (partly) familiar with what you describe. Occasionally... like 1 in 50 times......... a hyperjump would malfuction and you'd end up in the middle of nowhere.... no planet, no docking station. Perhaps you can get there deliberatly by pressing the buttons you describe - or maybe I did that accidentally - but I always thought it was a random thing.

Anyway... within a minute or two you'd be attacked by a large fleet of (I can't believe that in a lengthy thread about Elite nobody has mentioned them yet) Thargoid ships. For those who don't know, a Thargoid "mother" ship would spit out lots of baby ones... so an initial attack of 3 or 4 ships would soon become 20 or 30 of them. The small ones died easily, but were very manouverable and hard to hit.

It's been 20 years or more since I last played it..... but I THINK the only escape from the above scenario was to find the sun...... and sun-dive to scoop enough fuel to hyperjump out of there.

Great game: if it were modernised and thousands of players from around the world could do battle/trading in the same galaxies online they'd be needing Elite Treatment Centres for addicts.

[gregor]

Something like EVE online?!?! Or maybe battle cruiser millenium or somehting like that...

Or the offline freeware Privateer Remake or Vega Strike ? well they lack the realistic physics of Elite 2&3...

Still Elite 3 with imporved graphics would be very nice. especially with some co-op option.

[Ironlion]

The date is wrong on the website. The original Elite was released in 1984 on the BBC Micro.

Speaking in the strictest terms, this particular version was released in 1987, and was Programmed by Real Time (being based on the original BBC-B cassette Elite Programmed by Ian Bell and David Braben).

I just wanted to make note of this, As one of these two correct dates should be used rather than that other one

[THE FMS IS COMING]

well i have downloaded this game (along with may others)
but one thing i don't get is when you start
(after the cracked password protection) it says

COMMANDER JAMESON
system: leave
hypersystem : leave

ect ect ect....
what do i do after this
i tried keyboard mashing (an old method of getting SOMETHING done)
but all i found out was that pushing escape was that it came up with this:
DISC/CONTROL DEVICE: KEYBOARD
press key for disc or device options

L...load commander K...keyboard
S...save commander M...mouse
D...delete commander J...joystick
C...catalogue disk E...exit to DOS

help!

[Egbard]

does anyone know where if possible to get the original unhacked files from?

when i playe dit from floppy, it took more than 1000 kills to get elite status, also, from ian bells own site, it suggests a total of 6400?
so i was looking for original files, /unhacked files, i dont mind using the copy portection from the manual

I remember Elite very well. It was 1 of my favorite games that I had for Commodore 64 about 1989. I had hundreds of C-64 games, but Only a short list of them got regular play. Elite, Wasteland, Pool Of Radiance, Hillsfar, Legacy of the Ancients, Three Stooges, Rocketeer, Oils Well, Dig Dug and a few others round out that list. I forget what rank I had achieved in Elite before I got rid of all my C-64 equipment, but I was over a hundred planets into trading career and my ship had huge cargo hold upgrades with military lasers mounted on all views. I may download 1 of the elite emus soon and give it another go.