Any 'Elite' fans in the house?

you miserable old ****.

 

Look over there! It's a generation ship!

 

oh, sure - but I can't be arsed to google - I'm sure wiki has the
answers.

Do you remember it was distributed with a paperback sci-fi novel "set
in the same universe" or something?

 

the 'leccy was shit full stop.

 

BTW, get your sprog to ask Braben if they're ever, ever, ever, ever
going to get around to finishing Elite 4 and The Outsider.

They started writing Elite 4 in 2000, FFS.

 

I had a BBC B - largely because I played Elite at school and persuaded
my parents that having a computer would be good for my career (and look
how *that* turned out!).

Nice computer for its day - 6502 processor, fairly expandable (for its
day) and with a good addons market.

Mine had 2 5.25" floppy drives and Watford ADFS. It was *cool*.

Phil.

 

I'm sure Bear is a Thargoid

Phil

 

Allegedly there is Elite 4 bing worked on (and due to be *actively*
worked on once their current game comes out in 2009).

But seeing as it's been varourware since about 1998 I'd not hold your
breath.

Phil

 

Swings and rounabouts. It was half the price of the model B, if you
were using it to learn to code (as I was) then most stuff was
transportable back and forwards between the 'leccy and the Beeb, quite
a lot of BBC games worked on it and it was a pretty user friendly
machine (by the standards of the time).

On the downsides the lack of mode 7 was annoying, I couldn't word
process on it (the school BBCs had the WordWise chip fitted), you had
to spend a fortune on an expansion if you wanted to fit anything more
than a tape deck to it and Elite was, as noted, shit.

The big downside now is that I've still got my leccy sat in my garage
and it's worth the square root of **** all, whereas if I had a model B
I could flog it and buy myself a new bike with the proceeds.

 

Don't you mean the other way around?

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Eve Online.

 

Xerox used to make the electronics for the BBC & Acorn, assembling them at
their factory in Welwyn Garden City.

When electronic manufacturing was shifted to Gloucestershire I was
transferred from reprographics. We continued to make main controllers for
the BBC until about 1993. IIRC they were mostly shipped to India for
assembly.

I last used a BBC computer in 2001. We used them as test drones for another
third party contract with Reuters. They proved incredibly reliable.

 

<Ace>

You know, I've just read down the thread, and haven't understood any
of it, apart from getting the vague idea that it's something to do
with computer games. So who cares?

 

No. In Elite, which I like, ships fly as if they are flying in an
atmosphere. In Frontier the physics model is more real, which
detracts from the arcade appeal of the game and makes combat
fustrating.

 

Here you go. Live the dream!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BBC-Model-B-B...39:1|66:2|65:12|240:1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

 

So it's not just me then?

Quite frankly, I'm suprised at some of the participants in this thread.

 

Notice the use of the past tense?
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Clever ****.
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Elite was a classic space-ship computer game for the BBC Micro in the
1980s, which soon spread to other systems as well.

It used 3D graphics to show you the view from the cockpit of your
space ship as you flew around the galaxy fighting other things. You
started out with a combat rating of "Harmless", 100 credits, 7 light-
year's worth of fuel and 20 tonnes of cargo space. You could fly
between space stations buying and selling cargo, buying upgrades for
your ship, fighting other ships and carrying out missions in an effort
to get your combat rating to "Elite".

The graphics were fairly spectacular for the time and the playability
of the game was through the roof - it's big appeal was that it was
open-ended in that there was no set path you had to follow; you could
fly where you liked and make money by trading, pirating cargo from
other ships, earning bounty by killing pirates or even mining ore from
asteroids.

As mentioned you can download the PC version of the game for free if
you really have to know (and you get a cheap laugh when it warns you
that if you want to play with shaded graphics you'll need a powerful
machine such as a 286).

 

You **** - now I'm going to have to spend money, aren't I?

For some reason I thought they went for reasonable cash.