In space no-one can hear your shrieks of joy

Witchy · Post by **Witchy** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:17 pm

I am so old I remember buying an external drive for my BBC computer just to play the original disk version of Elite on the day of release....

I have only had the registered game a day but ow have I missed this series! It is supplying all I have missed in this genre...thank you, thank you, thank you *cries emotionally (but manfully)*

Post by **Vice** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:22 pm

Thanks for the compliment, I'm glad you're enjoying the game. Welcome.

I'm old enough to recall my days putting tapes into a player to enjoy a game on a Tandy MOD III

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:44 pm

Like my old Commodore 64.

verbosity · Post by **verbosity** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:46 pm

Originally posted by Vice
I'm old enough to recall my days putting tapes into a player to enjoy a game on a Tandy MOD III

Whoa that takes me back, I used to spend my days after school drooling at the window of the Tandy shop............

tha_rami · Post by **tha_rami** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:31 am

First thing I recall was getting a state-of-the-art EGA compatible PC.

Tiger · Post by **Tiger** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:20 pm

I built my own ZX81

Chris

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:49 am

well ... i had an Acorn Electron, played Elite till the tape bust, bought another and its still gathering dust with the Electron in my mum and dads house, would love to connect a tape deck and listen to its dulcet tones as the game loads.

but this is a stunning game ...

BrownP6672 · Post by **BrownP6672** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 10:00 pm

In the 80's Dad bought a C64. I bought ELITE as soon as I could afford it from my pocket money, car washing and birthday money!
I was not much of a trading success tbh

Few month back, got ELITE emulator going - Couldn't save progress = dire times, but I relived the dream!
I then found Oolite - Now this is ELITE with tweaks, savable and Good - So far as the solo play AI variables went.

I quit EVE-Online in JUN14, decided I would try EM - Demo time was good. 25hrs flight time so far and $600M+ and happy!

I love EM

I don't miss the hours of watching the tape deck, the slow wind across + the clunk of the counter, getting ever nearer to playing 'Jet Set Willy', 'ELITE' :S

PaulB · Post by **PaulB** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:33 pm

My My. You space age guys

C64, Tandy III, Etc, etc.

How about an RCA cdp 1802 COSMAC Elf microprocessor with HEX keypad and a couple of toggle switches with 512 bytes ram built from a kit based on an article in Popular Electronics and eventually expanded to 4K (yes Kb) of static ram and interfaced to a ascii keyboard and an old 9 inch video monitor and trying to load Tiny Basic off a cassette tape and program in Hunt The Wumpus.

But the initial firng up test was about a 16 byte machine code you entered in with the hex keypad that would make an LED blink.

[Edited on 10-18-2014 by PaulB]

CS-ACI- · Post by **CS-ACI-** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 6:35 am

Hello,

All you newbies, when I first started on punch cards we had to send them off to be run, machine code of course.

Then we moved up to punched tape, still had to send it off until we got a 300 baud modem.

Next we moved up to a Commadore PET 2001 with cassette deck.

Next the ZX80, ZX81, Spectrum and then a BBC Micro.

Steve

Post by **Marvin** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 6:51 am

Stew babysat the computer at USC. I'd come over after my last night class and play some inertial space ship game with triangles for the ships and a fuzzy white dot for the sun.

Post by **DaveK** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 4:08 pm

From post: 173788, Topic: tid=2857, author=PaulB wrote:How about an RCA cdp 1802 COSMAC Elf microprocessor with HEX keypad and a couple of toggle switches with 512 bytes ram built from a kit based on an article in Popular Electronics and eventually expanded to 4K (yes Kb) of static ram and interfaced to a ascii keyboard and an old 9 inch video monitor and trying to load Tiny Basic off a cassette tape and program in Hunt The Wumpus.

Got one fitted in my ship - it controls the coffee machine

Post by **DaveK** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 4:15 pm

From post: 173792, Topic: tid=2857, author=Marvin wrote: Stew babysat the computer at USC. I'd come over after my last night class and play some inertial space ship game with triangles for the ships and a fuzzy white dot for the sun.

I remember a couple of hours typing the code in from a magasine - for the BBC B - did some typo checking and then in the mist of exhaustion rebooted. After the reboot I realised I hadn't saved it to tape first!

I also remember a couple of hours retyping it in from a magasine - and then saving it to two different tapes!

It was apparently one of the first graphics games created for a computer by a couple of university guru's for fun - it got porteed over to most of the early home machines!

SeeJay · Post by **SeeJay** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 6:18 am

My first attempt on creating a game was on the ZX81.

How hard can it be I thought, so I was going to make a flight simulator.
When the cockpit outline was drawn, leaving "holes" for where the instrument was going, the memory was all used up LOL!:o

Crashed and burned right there!:D

Post by **Marvin** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 5:49 pm

I did the upgrade to my ZX-80 ... added the 81 chip. And it worked! (This from a guy who couldn't solder without burning up his transistors.)

Roughalloy · Post by **Roughalloy** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:55 pm

My first computer was the Timex sinclair followed by TI99, C64 and Amiga and so on.

mmRunner · Post by **mmRunner** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:14 am

Good old times ...

I started with ZX81, then C64, then Atari ST ...