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Elite Frontier anyone?

Uzi

Sun Jun 23, 2013 4:06:24 am

swarfendor437 wrote:Just had notification of this so anyone who was a fan of Frontier by David Braben in the 80's will love this!

Some nice wallpapers here too!

http://elite.frontier.co.uk/

I have never played the game myself but it is a genre I could easily fall into - then I would not be here!

Bit like james@war and Halo3! :lol:


For those who did play Elite, play it again with vastly improved graphics via Wine or Linux version as Oolite. It's free:

http://www.oolite.org/

Lots of add ons & upgrades available too.

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Been playing for weeks & back to Deadly status. Not bad for 30+ years later 8-)

Commander Uzi.

Uzi

Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:37:08 pm

swarfendor437 wrote:Hi Commander Uzi, I must now try and get my entire Wing Commander to run on GNU/Linux in WINE (apart from my Amiga CD32 version! :lol: )

Thanks for the Linux link to Frontier - it is not a game I got into - I once went on line with Home World and some 'person' stole my callsign whilst I was playing so online gaming has always been a 'put-off'! :cry:


Oolite is an updated graphics to the original Elite. The game itself is exactly the same. Trade planet to planet & spending profit to upgrade your ship. Take on pirates & smugglers for their bounty. All great fun but not an online game.

Commander Uzi.