[plug] OT: Acorn Archimedes

[Ben New]

Nick Bannon wrote:

>The 8-bit BBC's Chris mentioned had one of the most impressive early 3D
>(wireframe) games - Elite. (closest to "Frontier" on the Amiga) One of
>the same authors (David Braben) worked on both.
>  
>
<bollocks>
Actually, Elite existed on a number of platforms (although the BBC was 
the original platform) and was also called Firebird. I first played it 
on a BBC but also played it on Amiga and once or twice on MS-DOS. There 
would have also been a C64 version and many others in all probability. 
It was way ahead of its time in both graphics and gameplay, was playable 
at least 10 years after it was released, and wasn't totally 
violence-based which is very rare, especially in the scifi genre ;-) 
Docking to the space stations was always really hard though until you 
could afford the automagical docking upgrade. Talk about nostalgia!
</bollocks>

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