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Genuflection's
of 80s Games, Part 1: 'Elite' (Commodore 64)
Ahhhh...and I thought our
memories of wasted days in the 1980's were becoming as the dust of stars. Forgotten times
silently tumbling as so much jettisoned rubbish, falling forever slowly to Earth.
Until last year on downloading 'Frontier: First Encounters', I last played Elite when
Frankie said 'Relax'. Also on the Commodore 64; my retina is burned by those near
monochrome images on a cheap television screen.
As for this new blood of emulator-pilots; I wish them well - and all the best. Time moves
forward and when the fingers do not grip the controls of the Cobra as they used to, it is
time to watch the new kids blast off into Lave aerospace.
But I was there when it all began. When there was no emulation and you brought the
software brand new after reading the review in C+VG.
I wouldn't give that time up for all the 600Mhz chips in the world.
And so to all of you who played and flew and spent your early youth in pixilated
spaceways: you'll do for The Dark Wheel, you'll do...
DS (Elite - 1985)
(an addendum)
If I could once again lift my
eyes to the stars....
In 1996 I brought FFE and installed it on my Pentium with Windows 95 and an AWE 32 Sound
Card, and my 'puter said "no, you cannot do that - this program will not run on a
32-bit platform; you need a native DOS 16-bit platform."
I hear 'Elite IV' is in development. Is it possible to once again voyage the
heavens, to move through the cosmos against a backdrop of distant suns glittering against
the void like spinning diamonds. It is a journey vaster than Magellan's, one's spirit
soaring on solar winds, cocooned in the vessel of a true galactic Zen warrior: the Asp
Explorer.
Ah...the pulse-quickening pursuit of the Order of Elite...the pure, clean focus of a 4MW
Beam Laser...the unimaginable treasures of the galaxy awaiting their discoverer.... |
Elite, Commodore 64, 1984 (Cobra MkIII)
Frontier: First Encounters (Elite III),
1993 (Asp Explorer)
The best C64 emulator is CCS64
(freeware) - run a search..
You can get pretty much every C64 game ever made for the C64 at: ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/
Some more screenshots from my time
playing 'Frontier: First Encounters - Elite III'
This is me looking particularly
awesome and cool in my Asp Mk II |
 This is me looking particularly awesome and cool
coming out of hyperspace in my Asp Mk II |
 This is me performing an awesome and
cool docking run in my Asp Mk II |
Cop stops this bloke in his
car:
Cop: "Do you have a police record?"
Driver: "No, but I have the latest Devo album."
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