Playing like Elite

23 Nov 2011

Playing like Elite

Flash's Gaming PC on Tue Night....

Why doesn't New Eden have a super low-fi and lite version for their interface? I say this because my main rig blew up on tuesday night. My only back up was my battered work laptop and man, was it struggling, even with everything else turned down to low.

I need something even simpler than the lowest setting on New Eden, yes - I need wireframes and DOS based graphics. I need.....Elite.

Check this out, some of you may even be old enough to remember the glory of this most influential game - the super graphics, the game-play and the vastness of the universe, replicated perfectly each time. All for under 64K of RAM too. If EVE had an 'elite' setting, with super low and simplified graphics, I would be playing this setting all the time. Hell, I would be trying to play this on my netbook, my smart book even! Check out a screen-shot from a bygone era:

GET POINT! GET A POINT ON IT!!!!!

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Druur Monakh · 696 weeks ago

Everyboy who has played the Elite gets a bonus points in my book! (and it's even the Apple II version in the screenshot!)

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Flashfresh 70p · 696 weeks ago

Yup. Loved the Apple II though I ended up owning a Spectrum +128

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Miura Bull · 696 weeks ago

I missed the first Elite. But when I landed a copy of Frontier Elite II one Saturday morning after my paper round I guess I wasn't to know just how much of an influence that game would have on me.

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MB.

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anabaricimsdemons 13p · 696 weeks ago

http://www.oolite.org/

"Oolite is a space sim game, inspired by Elite, powered by Objective-C and OpenGL, and designed as a small game that is easy for users to pick up, modify and expand upon. Almost every aspect of the game can be changed by using simple, free graphics packages and text editors."

You all might want to check this out then.. :)

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Flashfresh 70p · 696 weeks ago

Downloading this already. Thanks for the link!

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KIA · 696 weeks ago

It would be cool for there to be a lo-fi version of Eve; I mean most of the size of EVE is due to the graphics. If there is a version of this, so many players will come back and alt / second character accounts running on older machines will also increase. Anyway, +1 from me on excellent post and a reminder of glory days gone by.

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Flashfresh 70p · 696 weeks ago

07 - yes, a 'wire-frame' version of Eve Online.

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Alan · 696 weeks ago

Elite is perhaps the greatest game ever. It was the game that probably led me to Eve. I also played it on the Spectrum. I also play Frontier on the Amigia. Loved that also

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Flashfresh 70p · 695 weeks ago

Elite on the spectrum; what a game. Loved it and when I lamented that there were no games like that anymore, a mate of mine said - 'there this here game, made by Icelanders....you might like it...' - the rest is history.

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cebiter 15p · 696 weeks ago

Frontier Elite II was the main reason fell in love with EVE after a few minutes of playing. Remember thinking while playing Elite, that if i ever found a game that was like it, but with real people as the NPC's it had, that i never would play anything ever again :-)

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Flashfresh 70p · 695 weeks ago

Well said Cebit but am now looking for a spectrum emulator.....

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kids shorts · 696 weeks ago

On short views, they can be only one elite!
I've found this game really interesting!

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Autunm Equinox · 695 weeks ago

Elite and eve....

An alternate to using a emulator was new kind on the PC. http://www.christianpinder.com/games/

The code and exe are no longer available for download after a request from the developers. However there was also another version -dark kind from memory. time to look at that pile of old HDD's again.

PS: love the blog.

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