Elite

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Elite 25th Anniversary Wallpaper

Elite 25th Anniversary Wallpaper available for download
Posted by jameson | 04 Sep 2010 | Elite 25th Anniversary | No Comments

Read all the Space Trader’s Flight Training Manuals

Read all the Space Trader’s Flight Training Manuals Brief introduction Welcome aboard this Cobra Mk III trading and combat craft. The ship has been supplied to you by Faulcon deLacy Spaceways, by arrangement with the Galactic Co-operative of Worlds whose Space and Interstellar Pilot’s Exams you have just successfully...
Posted by jameson | 03 Sep 2010 | Space Trader's Flight Training Manuals | No Comments

The Dark Wheel

What is The Dark Wheel? The Dark Wheel is a secret organisation about which very little is known. They are known as dream chasers or legend seekers, since many of the stories about them involve them searching for legendary places or artifacts. One of the legends they chase is...
Posted by jameson | 01 Sep 2010 | The Dark Wheel Novella | 1 Comment

Elite

For me the original “Elite” space trading game which was written by David Braben and Ian Bell starting in 1982 while the authors were still at Cambridge University has to be the ultimate space game. It was first published by Acornsoft on the BBC Micro in September 1984 to...
Posted by jameson | 01 Sep 2010 | Elite | 3 Comments
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Frontier Elite Developments

The entire universe of Frontier Elite fits onto a single floppy disk. For the Amiga version, this is a single 880 KB disk (disk 2 was only a selection of interesting saved games), and for the PC/DOS platform a 1.44 MB HD floppy. For the Amiga version, the actual...
Posted by jameson | 31 Aug 2010 | Frontier Elite Developments | No Comments
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Frontier Elite Space Trading Game

Frontier Elite II is a space trading computer game written by David Braben and published by GameTek in 1993. It is the first sequel to Ian Bell and David Braben’s earlier game Elite, and is available for Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and PC computers. Frontier Elite retains the same...
Posted by jameson | 31 Aug 2010 | Frontier Elite II | No Comments
Elite, the Dark Wheel the novella by Robert Holdstock

Cobra MK III spotted in the Frontier office.. 1/125th in scale

Cobra MK III spotted in the Frontier office.. 1/125th in scale
Posted by jameson | 03 Feb 2010 | Front Page | 3 Comments

Elite 4 is still being worked on

Story Time With the dichotomy of secrecy and hype already guiding the discussion, it seems fitting that David gives nothing away about certain other Frontier Developments projects. He tells me that the elusive Elite 4 is still being worked on, but can say nothing more. Likewise, with regard to...
Posted by jameson | 26 Jan 2010 | Elite, Frontier | No Comments

Frontier lego wii game

Wondering what the posibilites of there ever being a frontier game on the wii. I think it would be perfect. What does everyone think?
Posted by jameson | 19 Jan 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments
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Elite Technical innovations

The Elite universe contains eight galaxies, each galaxy containing 256 planets to explore. Due to the limited capabilities of 8-bit computers, these worlds are procedurally generated. A single seed number is run through a fixed algorithm the appropriate number of times and creates a sequence of numbers determining each...
Posted by jameson | 19 Mar 2009 | Elite, Front Page, The Dark Wheel | 1 Comment

Elite The Original Video Game

Elite is a seminal space trading computer game, originally published by Acornsoft in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers. The game’s title derives from one of the player’s goals of raising their combat rating to the exalted heights of “Elite.” It was written and developed by...
Posted by jameson | 19 Mar 2009 | Elite, Main Feature, The Dark Wheel | No Comments

ELite Gameplay

Elite has often been treated as the yardstick by which subsequent space trading games have been measured. However, it was not the first such game; the genre-defining Star Trader had been written as long ago as 1974. The space trading genre combines space-borne combat with a “buy low, sell...
Posted by jameson | 19 Mar 2009 | Elite, The Dark Wheel | No Comments
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