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Elite The New Kind - PC version reverse engineered
C Hawke Started conversation Apr 21, 2002
You all may want to check out
http://www.cjpinder.clara.co.uk/elite.html
The guy here took the publically available source code and has re-written the orginal BBC game for modern PCs - it plays exactly like the original and yo need no emulators.
He is working on a new version, but seems a long way off. But this version plays so much like the old one brought a tear to my eye as I blasted Vipers out of the sky.
C(ommander) Hawke (Elite)
Elite The New Kind - PC version reverse engineered
C Hawke Posted Apr 21, 2002
Doh! must read other threads before posting - see someone has already plugged Elite TNK - but worth a 2nd plug no the less.
CH
Elite The New Kind - PC version reverse engineered
bulmer Posted Nov 19, 2003
Hi,
I've started playing Elite the New Kind but there's a few things I don't like, for instance the lack of Identify the ship you are about to destroy. Now I have to take an up close look at the ship to tell what it is. I remember the thrill of seeing I was about to take on a Wolf. Also when I've killed somebody the bounty money is totalled up with my account, I like to know how much there life was worth without using a calculator. Other than that its great I've been playing for a couple of days now (that's another thing where's the counter to show me how much of my life I've been wasting) I'm hooked again!
Elite The New Kind - PC version reverse engineered
C Hawke Posted Nov 19, 2003
Ah, but you are talking about features on later versions of the original - Elite TNK is exactly as the original BBC B Disk version (more or less, he put back in asteroids which had been accidentally removed on the original version) - such ship identification, indeed ships like "Wolf" were never in the original.
Glad to see you managed to find a download site.
Chawke
Elite The New Kind - PC version reverse engineered
Josef_Stalin Posted Dec 20, 2003
I am mostly harmless, but getting less so because the link to the emulator for PCs doesnt work. ANY BODY who can find me a way of reliving my wasted time with Elite but on my PC will be given a date with Gwyneth Paltrow, a Mercedes (with tinted windows) and a small Caribian Island to own.
OK OK, maybe I am lying, but I would be very grateful
Elite The New Kind - PC version reverse engineered
C Hawke Posted Dec 21, 2003
the link on F85875?thread=264682&skip=0&show=20 is still valid, don't wqnt to repost it.
But get it whilst it is still there - Elite TNK should have been removed from all mirrors some time ago.
Commander Hawke
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