Greetings,
I bought a BBC Micro in 1980's mostly so I could play Elite. I had a cassette tape version which seemed to take about half an hour to load and I couldn't do mining missions - but still managed deadly after (quite a few hours) - I was great!
A few weeks ago I found Oolite and have got up to Dangerous, done Longway etc. and now on Ionics in G2, with a few OXPs like Old Ships, New Ships, Redux and so on. Even though my MacBook struggles with too much graphics I have to say its a fantastic game.
Anyway I just thought I'd say hi.
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DaddyHoggy
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Welcome to the Friendliest Board this side of Riedquat Commander Khai
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Rustybolts
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Hi 
Even though Elite came out during my age bracket i never played Elite until New Kind came out on the PC. So i missed the oportunity of a miss spent youth. I had a spectrum at the time my fave games being Barry McGuigans Boxing and Star Raiders 2 and anything on the Mega tape supplied by my monthly edition of Your Sinclair.
Even though Elite came out during my age bracket i never played Elite until New Kind came out on the PC. So i missed the oportunity of a miss spent youth. I had a spectrum at the time my fave games being Barry McGuigans Boxing and Star Raiders 2 and anything on the Mega tape supplied by my monthly edition of Your Sinclair.
STE.+ Firefly/Dragonfly + BlackJacksbullion v.1.23 link below.
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Commander Khai
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I went through
ZX81 (making a pixel move across a flickering screen)
BBC Micro (Elite)
Amstrad PCW (to write novel .. ha!... and use Supercalc)
PC 486 processor (playing Doom I, II, Ultimate)
Compaq Presario (crap thing never worked properly)
iBook G4 (best machine I ever had - but HD failure then it got stolen)
MacBook (now playing Oolite)
BTW can anyone tell me if Ionics Mission is supposed to be so boring when you get on to the weapons platforms and knock out 200 govt. ships. I've made lots of cash but it just seems to repeat too many times - am I missing something?
ZX81 (making a pixel move across a flickering screen)
BBC Micro (Elite)
Amstrad PCW (to write novel .. ha!... and use Supercalc)
PC 486 processor (playing Doom I, II, Ultimate)
Compaq Presario (crap thing never worked properly)
iBook G4 (best machine I ever had - but HD failure then it got stolen)
MacBook (now playing Oolite)
BTW can anyone tell me if Ionics Mission is supposed to be so boring when you get on to the weapons platforms and knock out 200 govt. ships. I've made lots of cash but it just seems to repeat too many times - am I missing something?
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drew
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Welcome aboard! Good to see another oldie newbie!
Beware the feline menace that stalks these boards though - he's been awful quiet of late...
Cheers,
Drew.
Beware the feline menace that stalks these boards though - he's been awful quiet of late...
We have a fiction section which is calling your name - get back on active duty Commander!Amstrad PCW (to write novel .. ha!... and use Supercalc)
Cheers,
Drew.
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Commander Khai
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Thanks for the welcomes.
The other night I was in Portugal - sitting outside in the countryside where the stars are very clear. There was some patches high cloud and one patch covered a bright star in the North sky turning it into a blueish smudge. I found myself seriously thinking .. "ah its a wormhole someone has just jumped into Witchspace " it was a few seconds before I realised how mad that was. Ha ha.
The other night I was in Portugal - sitting outside in the countryside where the stars are very clear. There was some patches high cloud and one patch covered a bright star in the North sky turning it into a blueish smudge. I found myself seriously thinking .. "ah its a wormhole someone has just jumped into Witchspace " it was a few seconds before I realised how mad that was. Ha ha.
