Re: Introduce Yourself.
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 6:12 pm
Welcome aboard, Doug - plenty of Elite veterans here.
Oolite Bulletins
For information and discussion about Oolite.
https://bb.oolite.space/
Introduce Yourself.
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Re: Introduce Yourself.
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 1:22 am
An Elite veteran AND a browncoat! Welcome aboard, Doug!
Re: Introduce Yourself.
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 1:47 pm
Hi All,
I've just discovered Oolite and I cannot thank the devs and all the modders enough. Its both a nostalgic trip to my past and a breath of fresh air.
I remember playing this back in '85 on my C64 having seen it on a friends BBC the year before, it was the first game that I stayed up all night playing, when the sun rose and the birds started tweeting (pre-Twitter) I remember being quite shocked that the time had gone so quick......but I had that Military Laser!
I recently fired up an old Spectrum 48K I have been hoarding to show my son the "good old days" and the cassette was in the box, sadly I couldn't find a tape deck! This led me to Oolite in a roundabout way.
Again, big thanks to all involved, I'm having a blast.
Cheers
Chris AKA H3rm1t
I've just discovered Oolite and I cannot thank the devs and all the modders enough. Its both a nostalgic trip to my past and a breath of fresh air.
I remember playing this back in '85 on my C64 having seen it on a friends BBC the year before, it was the first game that I stayed up all night playing, when the sun rose and the birds started tweeting (pre-Twitter) I remember being quite shocked that the time had gone so quick......but I had that Military Laser!
I recently fired up an old Spectrum 48K I have been hoarding to show my son the "good old days" and the cassette was in the box, sadly I couldn't find a tape deck! This led me to Oolite in a roundabout way.
Again, big thanks to all involved, I'm having a blast.
Cheers
Chris AKA H3rm1t
Re: Introduce Yourself.
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 5:04 pm
Hi Chris - welcome to the boards!
Re: Introduce Yourself.
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 5:24 pm
G'day Chris, and welcome aboard!
http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/
If you're determined to show your son what it was like, you could always go to Ian Bell's website, where he has made many of the different versions of Elite available to download for free, and you could then run it using an emulator on your current computer..h3rm1t9536 wrote:I recently fired up an old Spectrum 48K I have been hoarding to show my son the "good old days" and the cassette was in the box, sadly I couldn't find a tape deck!
http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/
Re: Introduce Yourself.
Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 9:07 pm
Hi folks,
I've been playing Oolite now on and off for a year or so now. I've downloaded a lot of OXPs and I'm now feelig like I've
a) got a pretty Iron Assed ship
and
b) got the hang of flying it in combat again.
I say again because I was, like a lot of you, an Elite addict way back in the early 80s on an old BBC B without a disk drive. I had a mate with a disk version of Elite and I was so jealous that he got missions and a wider variety of ships but even on the basic version I had I used to lose days to the game.
I've now introduced my daughter to Oolite and she's getting a bit addicted too. I'm a bad dad!
Thanks to all the developers and modders etc who've made this game a reality. I absolutely love it.
I've been playing Oolite now on and off for a year or so now. I've downloaded a lot of OXPs and I'm now feelig like I've
a) got a pretty Iron Assed ship
and
b) got the hang of flying it in combat again.
I say again because I was, like a lot of you, an Elite addict way back in the early 80s on an old BBC B without a disk drive. I had a mate with a disk version of Elite and I was so jealous that he got missions and a wider variety of ships but even on the basic version I had I used to lose days to the game.
I've now introduced my daughter to Oolite and she's getting a bit addicted too. I'm a bad dad!
Thanks to all the developers and modders etc who've made this game a reality. I absolutely love it.
Re: Introduce Yourself.
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 1:54 am
G'day and welcome aboard, Cmdr Nellers!
And you get bonus points for getting your daughter addicted, too!
And you get bonus points for getting your daughter addicted, too!
Re: Introduce Yourself.
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 2:46 am
Welcome Cmdr Nelles,
as a recent noob to this board myself i must say it is the friendliest and most helpful board i have ever been a part of.
Cmdr Cowen, rank Poor ,Kills 24
as a recent noob to this board myself i must say it is the friendliest and most helpful board i have ever been a part of.
Cmdr Cowen, rank Poor ,Kills 24
Re: Introduce Yourself.
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 6:44 am
Hi Cmdr Nellers, and welcome. 
Re: Introduce Yourself.
Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 7:20 pm
Hi all,
Played Elite years ago on a friends Amiga 500, and Frontier: Elite II on my own A1200.
Always one of my favorite games. Glad to find Oolite, and a fairly active community to help me get back into the swing of things.
Played Elite years ago on a friends Amiga 500, and Frontier: Elite II on my own A1200.
Always one of my favorite games. Glad to find Oolite, and a fairly active community to help me get back into the swing of things.
Re: Introduce Yourself.
Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 8:37 pm
Welcome aboard, demon59.
Re: Introduce Yourself.
Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 8:45 am
welcome mate... they are a friendly lot around here....
Re: Introduce Yourself.
Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 8:55 am
Hi demon59, and welcome
Re: Introduce Yourself.
Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 2:57 pm
G'day demon59, and welcome aboard!
Re: Introduce Yourself.
Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 2:56 am
Howdy demon59 and welcome aboard!
always open arms and hearty handshakes around here.
you may have to bring your own milk and cookies though
always open arms and hearty handshakes around here.
you may have to bring your own milk and cookies though