[plug] OT: Acorn Archimedes

[Scott Middleton]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 21:01, Ben New wrote:

Yeah i had it on the C64. A couple of years a go i put together an old
386 so i could play Frontier Elite 2 (Non CD edition). It is very hard
to play as it goes way too fast to shoot the baddies so i had to put a
program called slomo on it to slow down the awesome speed of a 386dx33.
I've still got it.

Freelancer is quite good although a M$ game.

> <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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