Happy 25th Anniversary - Elite

[JazHaz]

I'm not sure the Frontier/FFE approach of accurately modelled solar systems worked well, it was too much unusued/dead content per system.

Oh I dunno, least you could go and mine the other planets etc....! Now where did I leave my MB4's.....?

[FSOneblin]

Hmm. I guess I never realized how much elite was ahead of it's time. As well as one of the best games of all time.


Don't panic: FSOneblin.

[Ivan]

Just to be clear, I was pondering on a hypothetical multiplayer Elite (E4 or another), not Oolite - I like Oolite just the way it is

[Star Gazer]

I think one of the most amazing aspects of Elite is how little processing power it relied on to create such an involving, ground-breaking and wonderful game. 2MHz processors, <32KB RAM, and the horrors of cassette loaded games (what a revelation my first 80KB floppy disk drive was!)

When you compare it with the computing power we throw at games these days, and then read that a modern Email takes up more space than the entire game had to run in, it has been an extraordinary 25 years of development.

It's a terrible shame that B & B fell out, but I can't help put applaud the huge contribution they made to gaming in one stroke.

[DaddyHoggy]

<monty_python_yorkshire_man>2MHz! Luxury! The 6510 in my C64 ran at 985KHz (PAL)!</monty_python_yorkshire_man>

I notice Ahruman has just reduced the memory requirement of ONE Flasher in Oolite from more memory available in a BBC B to a tiny fraction of it (but still HUGE compared to what they squeezed into Elite gen home computers)