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So, who "graduated" to EVE Online from Elite on the C-64???

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Pew Terror
All of it
#41 - 2014-03-25 20:38:12 UTC
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#42 - 2014-03-25 20:47:15 UTC
All I had was a Vic-20. Cry

The Scott Adams adventure series were excruciating. Say yoho....

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Pew Terror
All of it
#43 - 2014-03-25 20:49:42 UTC
In total, what percentage of ships did you guys loose in elite due to docking in stations?

Mine was pretty high...
Harrison Tato
Yamato Holdings
#44 - 2014-03-26 03:40:36 UTC
Pew Terror wrote:
The truth!


LOL. The Atari 400 and 800 were given to children who wanted a Commodore 64 but whose parents didn't really love them.
Pew Terror
All of it
#45 - 2014-03-26 03:50:53 UTC
Harrison Tato wrote:
Pew Terror wrote:
The truth!


LOL. The Atari 400 and 800 were given to children who wanted a Commodore 64 but whose parents didn't really love them.


ST1024 son, accept no substitutes! C64 were for people who couldnt afford a real machine.
Money Makin Mitch
Paid in Full
#46 - 2014-03-26 03:59:01 UTC
I came from Escape Velocity on the Mac and Freelancer
Space Wanderer
#47 - 2014-03-26 08:34:50 UTC
Pew Terror wrote:
In total, what percentage of ships did you guys loose in elite due to docking in stations?

Mine was pretty high...


Whoever didn't lose his good share of ships to docking and hadn't saluted the ability to purchase a docking computer as a godsend hasn't played a version of Elite really worth playing. Cool
Harrison Tato
Yamato Holdings
#48 - 2014-03-26 10:38:41 UTC
Pew Terror wrote:
Harrison Tato wrote:
Pew Terror wrote:
The truth!


LOL. The Atari 400 and 800 were given to children who wanted a Commodore 64 but whose parents didn't really love them.


ST1024 son, accept no substitutes! C64 were for people who couldnt afford a real machine.



LOL wannabe Amiga.
Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#49 - 2014-03-26 10:42:11 UTC
Space Wanderer wrote:
Pew Terror wrote:
In total, what percentage of ships did you guys loose in elite due to docking in stations?

Mine was pretty high...


Whoever didn't lose his good share of ships to docking and hadn't saluted the ability to purchase a docking computer as a godsend hasn't played a version of Elite really worth playing. Cool

And you haven't played Elite often enough if the docking computer didn't smear you over the station at least once.

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Goatman NotMyFault
Lubrication Industries
#50 - 2014-03-26 10:47:14 UTC
I had Elite on C64 and Frontier on Amiga, and i still think Elite was better than EVE when take the age, graphic and techonolgy aside. EVE lack Logic and physics, Elite had it. When u b1tch about the lack of Logic and physics on EVE, u get ur head bashed in bcuz it either too difficult to incorporate it, hardvare wont handle it, or it would upset the hardcore EVE players which would ragequit and lobotomice them selves.

So Elite wins by a mile.
Space Wanderer
#51 - 2014-03-26 10:50:45 UTC
Abrazzar wrote:
Space Wanderer wrote:
Pew Terror wrote:
In total, what percentage of ships did you guys loose in elite due to docking in stations?

Mine was pretty high...


Whoever didn't lose his good share of ships to docking and hadn't saluted the ability to purchase a docking computer as a godsend hasn't played a version of Elite really worth playing. Cool

And you haven't played Elite often enough if the docking computer didn't smear you over the station at least once.


So very true. After a while you learned to activate the docking comcputer only in "safe" positions. Big smile
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#52 - 2014-03-26 11:01:53 UTC
Harrison Tato wrote:
Pew Terror wrote:
ST1024 son, accept no substitutes! C64 were for people who couldnt afford a real machine.

LOL wannabe Amiga.

Oh how fun it was in the early '90s to see the Amiga owners laughs turn into frowns when PCs started outdoing them on the video front, and how ST owners despaired as they no longer held MIDI supremacy. Lol
Hakaari Uisen
Evgeni Konung Corporation
#53 - 2014-03-26 11:29:27 UTC
/me puts my hand up. C64/Amiga guy here. Damn I'm old!
voetius
Grundrisse
#54 - 2014-03-26 11:40:24 UTC

The 520STFM was my first computer although I don't recall if I played Elite on that, I probably did, I remember hanging on the the printed manual for years. I never liked the manual docking though, and didn't like it in X2 either. Though I did get used to it in X2 mainly due to X2 being the first game that impressed me with the graphics, X3 Reunion even more.
Znagl
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#55 - 2014-03-26 12:32:12 UTC
Amiga dude checking in...

But I graduated in Spaceship Business through Master of Orion....
Arrs Grazznic
Poena Executive Solutions
#56 - 2014-03-26 14:55:53 UTC
First played on a friend's BBC Micro then got it for the C64 when it came out. Put many, many hours into that game. Right on Commander!
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#57 - 2014-03-26 15:59:57 UTC
Katkon Darnok wrote:
I came across a vid on youtube today - a "review" of Elite. Brought back memories! I remember first seeing this somewhere around the mid 1980s, if memory serves. Granted, the Commodore 64 was a tad before my time (was more an Amiga 500 guy!), but I did play Elite on a friend's computer.

Incredible how far graphics/gaming has come, but I think the similarities between EVE Online and Elite are pretty darned obvious! A massive galaxy to explore, a rich economy with a heavy emphasis on inter-planetary trade, shooting stuff in space, large space stations etc.... It was all in Elite, many, many years ago.

I liked Elite, and I like EVE. I will say, though, that I really enjoyed docking in Elite - really wish I had to manually dock in EVE!

Anyone else ever play Elite? If you did, this video will bring back memories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy3Di3uu5yA


I played in on my Spectrum 48k

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

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Sar Carstic
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#58 - 2014-03-27 00:03:37 UTC
I loved it.

Started out with an ascii Star Trek game on the TRS80 Model III in my dads work, which I got to play with on the weekends (was all of about 5 or 6 then), then I got a c64 and played Elite to death, then an Amiga 500, then a 286 and PC's from then on.

The thing I remember most about Elite was dying endlessly for days while docking trying to save up for a docking computer, and then being so happy when I bought one, and then dying periodically again while docking, but this time to the strains of the Blue Danube. The docking computer still managed to kill me at times, it was so annoying.

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Boomtown Jones
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#59 - 2014-03-27 00:11:40 UTC
Elite on the c64 ->some years-> EVE, is exactly what happened to me. Cool
45thtiger 0109
Pan-Intergalatic Business Community
#60 - 2014-03-27 00:14:44 UTC  |  Edited by: 45thtiger 0109
Sentamon wrote:
C-64 old fart reporting in.



Some of you could have remembered the good old Commodore Vic 20 with the tape drive that was my first computer which I put in the wrong ampage fuse in to it and fried that Commodore Vic 20 to a crisp.

Oh well they were the days.

Here is a link of the commondore vic 20

Commondore Vic 20

OP well done on a constructive thread.

LolP

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