Thoughts about space-sims
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 12:10 pm
Well. Hm. I don't know, what I should write here, but I'll try. First of all - English isn't my native language, I come from Poland and I write German and Polish MUCH better.
I'm a big fan of all space-sims. When I've in 1994 discovered "Elite" first time, passed many years. First I've tried for 3 years to doc at space station. After many tries, I trhought it will be impossible to dock and then...I did it! I was really happy. After this I've played almost only Elite...until 1997, when my dad bought me Amiga CD32. Of course, almost immediately I've started playing Frontier Elite II and I was shocked - graphic was brilliant, gameplay was exciting...I've copied it on two disk with the label "DON'T DELETE UNDER ANYTHING REASON!!!" I still have this disk
I always dreamt about playing X-Wing. This dream cam true in 2001, when I bought Amiga 1200 with Apollo 1240/25 MHz and 16 MB RAM. After many tries I've launched Shapeshifter - an Apple Macintosh emulator for Amiga. I've found in Internet Macintosh version of X-Wing with all capaigns (including Imperial Pursuit). And I've started playing X-Wing. It was a little bit hard (I had'nt GFX card, and all graphic conversion was made by CPU and fps rate was 10, maybe 15), but I've completed all campaigns. Then came my first PC - and I've started playing X-Wing from beginning...I still play X-Wing, because there is about 500 fan made missions and campaigns!
Then was FFE but the newtonian physics is really hard to master...after this was Oolite, Pioneer, Battlecruiser Millennium Gold, Freelancer, Orbiter...
When I see, how much spacesims (not commercial though) has appeared in the last years. I'm impressed. I want to play all this, but...WHEN? I download these games, download add-ons...but I haven't time to play it
I'm full-time translator (German of course 
), and I haven't time to play my beloved games... 
I'm a big fan of all space-sims. When I've in 1994 discovered "Elite" first time, passed many years. First I've tried for 3 years to doc at space station. After many tries, I trhought it will be impossible to dock and then...I did it! I was really happy. After this I've played almost only Elite...until 1997, when my dad bought me Amiga CD32. Of course, almost immediately I've started playing Frontier Elite II and I was shocked - graphic was brilliant, gameplay was exciting...I've copied it on two disk with the label "DON'T DELETE UNDER ANYTHING REASON!!!" I still have this disk
I always dreamt about playing X-Wing. This dream cam true in 2001, when I bought Amiga 1200 with Apollo 1240/25 MHz and 16 MB RAM. After many tries I've launched Shapeshifter - an Apple Macintosh emulator for Amiga. I've found in Internet Macintosh version of X-Wing with all capaigns (including Imperial Pursuit). And I've started playing X-Wing. It was a little bit hard (I had'nt GFX card, and all graphic conversion was made by CPU and fps rate was 10, maybe 15), but I've completed all campaigns. Then came my first PC - and I've started playing X-Wing from beginning...I still play X-Wing, because there is about 500 fan made missions and campaigns!
Then was FFE but the newtonian physics is really hard to master...after this was Oolite, Pioneer, Battlecruiser Millennium Gold, Freelancer, Orbiter...
When I see, how much spacesims (not commercial though) has appeared in the last years. I'm impressed. I want to play all this, but...WHEN? I download these games, download add-ons...but I haven't time to play it
I'm full-time translator (German of course ), and I haven't time to play my beloved games...