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

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Katkon Darnok
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2014-03-25 03:16:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Katkon Darnok
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
Commander Spurty
#2 - 2014-03-25 04:45:38 UTC
PC, Spectrum, Amstrad, Amiga, PC

That's the order of my elite playing systems.

UK computer club I was part of sort of had competitions for trading over the course of 30 mins.

Who made the most money won a sticker or something. Good old days

Almost went kickstarter backer for the reboot ... Almost ...

There are good ships,

And wood ships,

And ships that sail the sea

But the best ships are Spaceships

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Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#3 - 2014-03-25 07:49:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Bagrat Skalski
I still have this game and C=64. Elite was more like an old school simulator where you see cockpit before you. Docking was a test of your skill with piloting the spacecraft. I liked especially the exploring part, because you was always founding new planets with great descriptions, very immersive, even now. The world lived, markets were selling and buying, ships flying near by, what a great game it was back in the days. I hope that the new Elite will be something like that, or better, that this fictious world will live and every part will be original in some way, procedural content FTW.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#4 - 2014-03-25 07:55:53 UTC
Original version 1984 BBC Micro Disc-version of Elite.

Every iteration since then.

Which is why Ill NOT be going to Elite: Dangerous. Love the ships, love the original universe, hate what Braben did to it in E2 and E3.

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#5 - 2014-03-25 07:56:19 UTC
I was stuck on ITS machines and Macs at the time of the first game so my first Elite was Frontier. Cry
Sentamon
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2014-03-25 07:59:53 UTC
C-64 old fart reporting in.

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Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#7 - 2014-03-25 08:00:58 UTC
Tippia wrote:
I was stuck on ITS machines and Macs at the time of the first game so my first Elite was Frontier. Cry



Im sorry.

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#8 - 2014-03-25 08:05:59 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Tippia wrote:
I was stuck on ITS machines and Macs at the time of the first game so my first Elite was Frontier. Cry

Im sorry.

It's ok. I got Wumpus and Radical Castle instead. P
Also Trade Wars, which in many ways is closer to the EVE lineage than Elite is.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#9 - 2014-03-25 08:10:26 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Tippia wrote:
I was stuck on ITS machines and Macs at the time of the first game so my first Elite was Frontier. Cry

Im sorry.

It's ok. I got Wumpus and Radical Castle instead. P
Also Trade Wars, which in many ways is closer to the EVE lineage than Elite is.


Oh ouch. Thats like an icicle plunged through what remains of my heart :(

(I really hated Trade Wars you see lol)

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann

Jint Hikaru
OffWorld Exploration Inc
#10 - 2014-03-25 08:21:00 UTC
Spectrum then Amiga.

Played Elite, then Elite Frontier. Still have the original box, instructions, galaxy map and game disk for frontier (and a disk with my saved game on).

One day i will find a good emulator and boot that up again.

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Xearal
Dead's Prostitutes
The Initiative.
#11 - 2014-03-25 08:37:16 UTC
Elite pilot checking in. I actually made it to 'elite' danger level too, freaking hard to get to.

Frontier was okish, though I was part of some of the empire fleet battles in that, that was fun, going after an enemy general protected by a fleet of ships..

After that, I did a lot of turn based and realtime strategy games, friends of mine got me into WoW, while I had heard somewhere about this new space MMO game that was supposed to be like elite.. I went with the friends club, after I got seriously bored and quit wow, I finally arrived in Eve, 3 days into the game went subscription, and also kicked myself a lot for giving into peer pressure and going to WoW when I could have spent those 7 years in Eve..

Does railgun ammunition come in Hollow Point?

Samillian
Angry Mustellid
#12 - 2014-03-25 08:43:24 UTC
Elite on ZX Spectrum.

Still have the Spectrum the original game, book and instructions as well as the evil LensLock you needed to get the access code also an old C60 with my game saves on.

NBSI shall be the whole of the Law

Sturmwolke
#13 - 2014-03-25 09:38:27 UTC
Missed C64 (blame the parents) and caught Elite on the ole 8086.
I remembered fondly, 2 players on the keyb ... the navigator/weapons guy (me) and the pilot (my brother) :D That was fun.
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#14 - 2014-03-25 09:59:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
BBC 'B' Elite player here

@Samillian hah at the Lenslok I remember those evil things.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#15 - 2014-03-25 10:04:02 UTC
Played Elite on the IBM ( 8086 I believe?) \o/ Never got far in the fighting ranks, but absolutely loved the trade (and thargoid invasions yikes)! Then moved on to the X-series, great fun! To finally land in EvE!

Providing a new home for refugees in the Aurora Arcology

Speedkermit Damo
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#16 - 2014-03-25 10:11:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Speedkermit Damo
Spurty wrote:
PC, Spectrum, Amstrad, Amiga, PC

That's the order of my elite playing systems.

UK computer club I was part of sort of had competitions for trading over the course of 30 mins.

Who made the most money won a sticker or something. Good old days

Almost went kickstarter backer for the reboot ... Almost ...


Similar for me.

First played elite on one of thosse huge BBC microcomputers. Then later on the Atari ST (anyone remember them?), and Amiga.

I loved that game. and I'm looking forward to Elite dangerous. Everyone says Star Citizen will be big competition for Eve, but I think Elite dangerous will be the one to look out for.

We're showing our age here guys. Old farts thread.

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Muestereate
Minions LLC
#17 - 2014-03-25 10:55:04 UTC
Can't say I remember it. Maybe it was a European phenomena? It sure looks like fun. Perhaps somewhere in those old stacks of 5 and 1/4 inch floppies is a dump. i remember trying to hack the disk system into something that would work. THe basic had a bug in it that messed with random read and writes. We thought we were pioneers but were to find out we were reinventing the wheel. Hashing tables nad direct track and sector access were old hat at ibm. You know when hard drives were called Winchesters and produced visions of rapid fire lever action carbines of the Old West.

The game that really gave me the EVE bug forever though was M.U.L.E. It was a mining game :). You need to keep harvesting a few things to keep the whole thing going. The theme song stayed buried in my head for decades. its still there. I don't think we did any flying at all. It was all resource balancing and reading the terrain.

I probably would have liked ELITE. Our first games were space games but all text based. Landing on the moon with tables of thrust and speed data and then that buggy startrek. first ascii graphics:) We converted them form pdp11 games, the word ported hadn't been used yet in our circles. A port was what you stuck a plug into, usually a seriel cable but it had an RS232 available. It was good for learning how to flip bits but we couldn't afford the printers that attached to it for quite a few years.
I Riven I
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#18 - 2014-03-25 11:37:03 UTC
My computers (by order):

- zx spectrum 16k/48k (the one with that needed the external cassette reader)
- zx spectrum +2
- Unix PC ($2500)
- Mega drive
- Game gear
- Playstation
- PC with P3 800mhz and voodoo graphics card.
- PC with P4 ($1000)

.. and from there I got about 3 different computers (mixed/new components such as core2quad, i5, i7 and graphics 8800, 460, 660ti.
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#19 - 2014-03-25 11:37:32 UTC
I came from WoW Shocked
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#20 - 2014-03-25 11:45:56 UTC
Slade Trillgon wrote:
I came from WoW Shocked
Somebody had to P

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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