Tau Ceti?

pagroove · Post by **pagroove** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:19 pm

Another Elite (frontier) remake. I did not hear about it till I browsed Youtube today and saw some videos of it. Looks like a 1 man project. The graphics engine looks nice.

What do you think?

http://pidigi.blogspot.com/search?updat ... -results=3

Cmd. Cheyd · Post by **Cmd. Cheyd** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:35 pm

Sadly, the firewall administrator here at my house has YouTube blocked.

I'll have to wait till I get to work tomorrow to see it.

BTW - Did you know I was firewall admin?

pagroove · Post by **pagroove** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:16 pm

Cmd. Cheyd Vlos'Olplyn wrote:
Sadly, the firewall administrator here at my house has YouTube blocked. I'll have to wait till I get to work tomorrow to see it.

BTW - Did you know I was firewall admin?

No?

But can't you unblock it by yoursef? By shooting a Trumble infested missile at the firewall?

Cmdr Wyvern · Post by **Cmdr Wyvern** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:46 pm

Cut him some slack, Pagroove.
As a former MS codemonkey....he doesn't know how it works.

Just ribbing you a bit, Chayd.

FSOneblin · Post by **FSOneblin** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 11:05 pm

Is it for mac? And i can't find the download page.
FSOneblin

Cmd. Cheyd · Post by **Cmd. Cheyd** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:04 am

Not a codemonkey... I fixed the crap when the codemonkeys fornicated a football.

I was being facetious. I know how to open the firewall. It's an enterprise grade product (one I'm quite intimately knowledgeable about) that I run on my home server, and have around 2-3 million sites blocked. Youtube is one. I have 9 and 10 year old daughters that have largely unrestricted access to the computer. I monitor where they go, how long they go, and what protocols they use. Youtube was something I wasn't comfortable with them having un-supervised access to.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:19 am

OT: Does anyone remember the Tau Ceti game that used to be on the 8bit computers? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Ceti_(computer_game)
what a great game that was, the nightvision effect on the version i played (the c64 ) was brilliant and would probably still look really great if implemented in a game today. must remember to play this again with a c64 emulator.

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:19 am

Yup, superb game (and it's follow-up, Academy). Used to play them both a lot on the old speccie back in the mists of time.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:20 pm

@Griff - I still have my C64 and somewhere I still have a copy of Tau Ceti!!!

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:21 pm

sadly i recycled my c64 a few years back after i'd found the ccs64 emulator and c64.org , it probably still worked and everything, if only i'd heard of ebay *shakes fist at the sky*
I've kept few covers from some of the games i had though, llamasofts ancipital, the odin/thor games (nodes of yesod, robin o' the woods). lovely stuff. I've not heard of the follow up - Academy, i'm going to have to try and track that down - i loved tau ceti - used to just love watching the stars go all twinkly when it got to night time (look, it was a simpler time back then!)

pagroove · Post by **pagroove** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:28 pm

FSOneblin wrote:
Is it for mac? And i can't find the download page.
FSOneblin

It's still in development I think as is another game I watch closely namely Infinity Quest for earth:
http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/

Looks fantastic. The end question is: Will it offer the same fun as playing Oolite? I hope so because otherwise a lot of effort spent on the engine is lost.
But it's multiplayer so I think it will be more like Eve, however with fully landable and explorable planets.

wackyman465 · Post by **wackyman465** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:06 am

It's not for mac... I know cause I really tried to figure out a way to get Infinity to run (darwine, VMware....)