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Wow I'm 44....
I would have never believed in 1,000,000 light yrs that the greatest game ever made would be so wonderfully updated graphicly and yet the root magic completly respected and undiluted.
I have not played ELITE since April 2nd 1989 on my c64...
I was thrilled by this lucky find browsing for my yesterdays

I'm honoured to be among you..
To all fellow Commanders God Bless.
and keep the Thargs guessing

We all share that same feeling about Oolite here and most of us seem to be around your age, give or take some years.

Welcome to the boards, the friendliest ones this side of Riedquat

Thank You

What Maik said...

I got my C64 and tape version Elite out over the summer holidays just to prove both still work - they do!

So, you're in good company...

Hi, mjcopas, and welcome to the boards, and of course to this great game!

I am in pretty much the same situation as you, only that after my C64 was history, I had an interlude playing Elite on an Atari ST. When I stumbled across Oolite some five years ago, I was very happy. I just had to buy a new computer to play it, because my old and trusted iBook would not give me more than four frames per second, which made playing pretty much impossible.

Since I'd got my MacBook Pro half a year after the inital contact, I'm in Oolite heaven...

I first played Elite on an Electron in 85 (Deadly), them an Amstrad CPC (Elite) and for a short while, the disappointing PC port before finding TNK (Elite).

Having spent many fine hours on the greatest game ever written, I discovered what proved to be the definitive Elite, right here.

I've just upgraded to a Vaio L13 running Oolite 1.74 and, well, it is simply stunning. This is just how I Elite looked (and played) in my imagination a quarter of a century ago.

Congratulations and sincere thanks to all of those involved.

TheNight wrote:

I first played Elite on an Electron in 85 (Deadly), them an Amstrad CPC (Elite) and for a short while, the disappointing PC port before finding TNK (Elite).

Having spent many fine hours on the greatest game ever written, I discovered what proved to be the definitive Elite, right here.

I've just upgraded to a Vaio L13 running Oolite 1.74 and, well, it is simply stunning. This is just how I Elite looked (and played) in my imagination a quarter of a century ago.

Congratulations and sincere thanks to all of those involved.

Welcome, TheNight, an excellent first post, and your sentiments are not lost or unique amongst the throng here - you're in good company.

Welcome aboard guys!

I'm sure we're all in agreement that the ZX Spectrum version of Elite was the definitive one...

Cheers,

Drew.

drew wrote:

I'm sure we're all in agreement that the ZX Spectrum version of Elite was the definitive one...

? Ohh, get it,

Do you remember the funny red plastic 'lens' thing you needed to hold up to the screen to unlock the game?

My friend and I were nearly reduced to tears after waiting 10 mins for the speccy to load it only to misread the code.

Glad Oolite doesn't replicate that.

Happy days.

Hmm - LensLok.OXP perhaps

Thargoid wrote:

Hmm - LensLok.OXP perhaps

Ooo.. twisted, evil!

Like it.

Cheers,

Drew.

drew wrote:

Thargoid wrote:

Hmm - LensLok.OXP perhaps

Ooo.. twisted, evil!

Like it.

Set up a mission page on startup with a picture with scrambled code and give five choices. When selecting the wrong choices, Oolite quits.

(All possible currently except the quitting, but instead of quitting we probably can use some bad code line to crash Oolite, giving the same "desired" result)

My kids think Oolite's graphics are pretty flaky by today's standards.... I wonder what they'd make of wireframe.

I'll never forget the feeling of how blown away I was by Elite, and then how thrilled I was to discover Oolite and how it brilliantly captured the essence of the original while adding all the things I'd wished for in the original.

My kids also say that there's too much sitting around. I say that if they don't like it, I'll drop them off at the next space station and they can disembark permanently.

while I'm not quite as old as the original poster... here's a shout out to all the Commander Jameson old timers.

Hi mjcopas,
Welcome. Yes, there are a lot of us 'Oldies' out here enjoying Oolite.
And don't worry, I've seen ten more Summers than you, and our demographic extends way beyond that.