Oolite Bulletins

I think I first saw Elite on a friend's Amiga as a little kiddo. I didn't really know the significance of the game, I just had a vague idea that "this is about trading and flying around in space." Later I caught a glimpse of an early PC port.

During the years, I read articles about the adventures of Braben & Bell in a game magazine, so I got around trying out the New Kind (discontinued), and a couple of years later (this year), I got Oolite.

Now, if Oolite had a multiplayer mode, I'd buy a joystick! Grrr!

Buy a joystick anyway!

I first discovered Elite on a 3½-inch floppy disk in amongst my Dad's old computer disks when I was 13 (8 years ago!). I was rather interested in it, as the idea seemed very familiar. When my dad came home and saw me playing on it, he thought it very funny and then dug out his old ZX Spectrum to show me what he'd played it on back when he was a kid. (I was playing it on my old laptop!)

However the reason I found it familiar was because I had played Frontier a bunch of times round my Nans house on my uncles Amiga.

Wow, just a bit of computing history there!

- was still an embryo when the original Elite was released D:

Oh... go away!!! making me feel old...

B

Rebecca wrote:

Oh... go away!!! making me feel old...

Uhm, that's not my mother tongue...but I'm sure the proper word is experienced, not old!

Screet

Hi all,

I started with PC Plus I believe. I was running a 386SX with Windows 3.1 at the time although my memory could very well be faulty as it was so long ago.

In any case, at the time I never got the hang of docking or maybe just gave up too soon. Also, I think the planets looked like flat color circles and it just kind of destroyed the believability for me. But I loved the concept and vast universe. I think it even had the novella, I'm not sure.

I had went to a new computer, a 486/66 and either lost the disk, the manual, or something and I was never able to install it again.

Oolite just blows me away. I'm still new and still harmless but I'm getting used to flying the ship and checking out the scenery. I showed a friend last night the Lave system with some oxp's loaded that gave other planets and moons completely textured. I hit the jump drive as I headed to some planet and showed her the aft screen with Lave and the space station getting further away, and a moon and some orange planet/moon body on the port side. She was impressed.

As am I.

Randy

P.S.: Rebecca

Oh... go away!!! making me feel old...

I refuse to get old. I often say that I'm 40 something going on six.

Randy wrote:

I refuse to get old. I often say that I'm 40 something going on six.

Well, I'm thirty-eleven, so still in my thirties. Expecting to stay in that area for a while. Celebrating my thirty-twelfth this fall.

Randy wrote:

P.S.: Rebecca

Oh... go away!!! making me feel old...

I refuse to get old. I often say that I'm 40 something going on six.

in case I'm twenty thirteen!

B

Atari ST.... i played it when i could get my brother off of the machine... can't remember if I ever got to elite though - i was rubbish at docking... though on oolite it seems much easier...

Must have been in 1987/88 I guess... I was 12 and baby bro was only 8 happy times....! i think we flogged the ST on ebay about 3 years ago... it was still working

my brother set me a link to oolite last year saying... "look you can bully me off the laptop now!"

once I got it working thanks to peeps on here... im hooked!!!!

B

Commodore 128 in C64 mode. I wore out two of them playing Elite day and night in my office while I manned the phones. One of the perks of being 'The Boss' lol. Been addicted to computing ever since.

Rebecca wrote:

in case I'm twenty thirteen!

2013? Really?

I'm 29 and 101/12ths

Myself, have been twenty for eighteen years now, and it slowly grows on me.

Lol i feel young then `coz i'm only 21...

I am 21 as well. We are talking hex right?