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  1. Re:ELITE GBA by TomV · · Score: 1 · on Ultima Revived
    Braben's working (stiiiiiill) on Elite 4 at Frontier Developments, no really, it WILL be released at some point...


    Bell's become a techno-shamen trance DJ cat-breeder, homepage is here. a Proper old-school game designer, possibly madder than Yak, but probably not as productive.

    TomV

  2. My own opinion but... by Claric · · Score: 1 · on Leisure Suit Unix
    I'd LOVE Frontier: First Encounters to be ported over to Linux. I can't even play it on my Windows box (it can't cope with my Voodoo3 or SB128). Anyone agree. I know that Elite 4 may have a Linux port but I really want a bug free FFE right now.

    Claric
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  3. Re:Classic games really this important? by Alioth · · Score: 3 · on IDSA Goes After Abandonware
    Yes. The entire Elite series - Elite, Frontier Elite 2 and Frontier: First Encounters.

    They have a big fanfiction following, and the Elite Club will soon be offering the source code for FE:2 and FFE. See Frontier Developments website for more info on these games, or see alioth.net for a website set in the fictional Frontier Elite Universe.

  4. Elite! by Alioth · · Score: 2 · on Computer, Arise From Your Grave
    I saw this article a few days ago.

    It's great that it metioned one of the all-time great games from the 8-bit days: Elite. It's a game that really started a genre, and nothing has quite surpassed it. Many versions were produced. Frontier Developments is now making an Elite 4. (Elite 2 and 3 were Frontier: Elite 2 and Frontier: First Encounters respectively).

    The game fired the imagination, so much so there's quite a lot of Frontier Elite Universe fiction out there on various websites (including my own), the newsgroup alt.fan.elite, plus even a JAVA Spectrum Emulator running Elite out there on the Web. The 8-bit days really were the new frontier too, where code bloat could not exist, and super-tight coding was a measure of a software house's superiority, rather than MICROS~1's share price.

    I fondly remember the BBC Micro too. A great machine: see the website, the BBC Lives! for emulators and the background of this superb machine.

  5. ELITE, I want ELITE darn it! by jonr · · Score: 1 · on Parsec Demo For Linux Released

    IMNSHO still the best game written ever. ELITE is the king! Ah, all those nights on my trusty old BBC Model B, using an Apple green monitor in the computer lab. "Hey there is a system we havent vistited, I wander if we run into any Thargoids?"
    David Braben and Ian Bell, where are you now?
    (Oops, looks like troubl e!)
    Jón
    (No, I did NOT put that space in "trouble")