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Elite frontier Anonymous Mon May 30 16:03:35 2016 No.3255370 [Reply] [Original]

A flawed masterpiece, and I'm still amazed that it fit on 2 floppies. Please share your best memories, strategies and bugs that hindered one of the greatest space exploration games of all time. Its like the daggerfall of space sims!

Anonymous Tue May 31 16:10:59 2016 No.3258496
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im more of an Escape Velocity guy

is this the game you are referring to OP?
is it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_Elite_II

did they fix its hinderances in the sequel?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_First_Encounters
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>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 17:00:08 2016 No.3258593 File: 22 KB, 480x300, 1296-FrontierElite2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3255370 Sometimes I run the game on my Dos computer with MT-32 music. >never did figure out how to take off and fly into space though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 00:39:34 2016 No.3259661 >>3258496 That looks like ffe or some other upgraded version and no first encounters sucks imho

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 00:42:40 2016 No.3259664 File: 20 KB, 500x281, fe0db0e846c02d4487bd09bda022189f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3258593 /vr/ you have failed me

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 01:20:47 2016 No.3259758 >>3255370 >I'm still amazed that it fit on 2 floppies procedural generation. Why are people "amazed" by this constantly? It's what computers are for. Games with manually created assets are the stinkers

Anonymous Wed Jun 1 01:29:14 2016 No.3259772

>>3255370
Yeah I have the amazing memories of occasionally hyping myself up to play this fucking game and explore and shit and not being able to do that because I get fucking totally obliterated the instant I leave the starting system. Every single fucking time. I have seriously never seen anything outside the starting system in any of the Elites. How do I get good?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 02:35:03 2016 No.3259880 >>3259772 Jim plays gameavhas a great tutorial. It helped me, also Sharoma is a great website. I'm currently using the original UK version on dosbox. It has a wormhole bug that's pretty well mapped out on Sharoma.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 02:36:04 2016 No.3259882 >>3259880 Jim plays games on youtube

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 1 02:38:09 2016 No.3259886 >>3259758 Well the guy who made it said its like 22k, so yeah. The physics man

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