This is the entirely unofficial, but extremely authentic, Elite Dangerous Lore and History Channel, hosted by one of the original contributing authors - Drew Wagar.
Cheers Drew, enjoyed this very much. Many hours were spent on Elite on my ZX 48K. Loved the novella that came with it.. remember the lenslok?? Good days..
To bad I could not attend. Nice stream! At least there would be one federal corvette showing up loool. Coming from Elite Frontier II and then Elite III and offcours Elite Dangerous. I played it on Atari but then PC. I still miss my panther clipper in First encouters. Could blow up an imperial courier in 3 seconds lol. Thanks Drew. Keep it up!
The code on the Spectrum version was really awful, if you look at a game like Dark Star on the Spectrum you will see what can be done with vector graphics. Elite was always the game that the one person that I knew with a BBC persisted on shoving in my face. This is a classic example of lazy coding on the Spectrum port.
I bought Elite late in 1984 on my Beeb (cassette version) and fell in love with it totally, I put a staggering amount of hours into it and when I found out the disk version had more things I started saving for a disk drive and Acorn DFS. I loved Frontier too and soon Braben and Bell were legends in my eyes. I even also bought it for my C64 and Spectrum! Until Elite Dangerous, I put £200 into the 2012 kickstarter and my god do I regret it, Braben took a dump on all the true Elite fans with ED and took it in some stupid directions and ruined the game and I stopped playing before Odyssey came out and even though I have a lifetime expansion pass I'll never download it. At one time I would have been delighted to ask Braben for his autograph but now I would cross the road to avoid him. If you want to play ED, go play Oolite instead, it's 100x better.
As a C-64 user I have to admit, the BBC version runs much smoother than our version did. 😃 Welcome back Drew, hope you and family are doing great in Scotland!
My one wish for the 40th.... Just confirm that it is possible for us to understand what/where Raxxla is using mechanics in the game. That's all. Just confirm it's not all a big lie.
Great video! There is massive unfinished business to the story history of this game that FDevs must tie a bow in or it will go down as the worst story failure in history. The very first story introducing the Elite game to the world included a mystery, a very heavily compelling mystery that has never been resolved or even continued. It was the apparent cause of Alex's father's murder and though Alex individually avenged that, has never discovered the real reason for it. There have been little nibbles of data and some inadvertent leaks but nothing that comes close to progressing that mystery. This must be continued and the amount of time that has gone by without relatively paying it any attention makes it extremely important to become a huge part of the game. Is there a possibility that they needed feet on the ground in order to continue the RAXXLA mystery, do they need feet in ship interiors (which we do have in Fleet Carriers), do they need atmosphere planet landings in order to continue that story element? Was there a future growth plan associated with that story? Or was RAXXLA or finding RAXXLA always going to be a huge nothing burger?
Had this on the old IBM PC we used to have. But we didn't have the manual -- and it was locked by requiring you to type in a certain word from a page and a paragraph in the manual to play. Being young kids at the time, we just kept typing in "the" until it let us in. Much preferred the ACORN version because it was more colourful and shaded AND it didn't have the lock on it so we had as many as fifteen or twenty minutes extra playing time not having to type "the" over and over.
My Amiga 500 was amazingly good 👍 i missed da rubber buttons from my ZX Spectrum 48k , so i used my Atari Joystick, i had a Kempston interface on my Spectrum so i used da Jostick on dat too, good days indeed.....................
Still have my Speccy version, boxed and in mint condition apart from Blu Tack marks on the back of the ship identification chart poster. 😂 PS: I could never understand what people found so hard about the Lenslock..... 🤔
i was here too in 1984 how games have changed 😍 Amiga.. oh my thats going back.... sound blaster haha so funny compared to a modern computer but were cutting edge in their time😁
So good to see the BBC B version of Elite again after *cough* years - this game are into so much time I should have been spending on my Computing Studies O-level in [redacted]! I was a big BBC Micro fan boy back in the day. Also, well-explained: I can assure other viewers that, as someone who played the original as a lad, you’ve nailed it! 🫡🏴
Remember reading the Space Trader's Flight Training Manual in our assembly hall when I should have been revising for my 3rd year junior high school exams 🙂
You can move where ever and how often you want to, as long as you keep your home in your heart ;- ) Welcome back again! You are starting to become also a constant in my life, which I would dearly miss (hint for the younger folks: highest expression of non-sexual sympathy of a male representative of generation X (and before)). The bounty was rather a disappointment, though. There is just no sense for the value of lasting(!) quality in this world anymore ...
He has archived playthroughs of Elite, Frontier Elite 2 and Frontier First Encounters playthroughs on his retro channel! www.youtube.com/@drewonspacegames/playlists
I had a BBC at home so I could take the disk to school and play it during breaks, and have fun with my mates and some teachers whom got into the game. Until I upgraded to a CM64
I travelled with Firebird directors, back in the day, to the US. Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, as a consultant, and helped them try to get the original Elite published. I actually recommended they open an office and publish themselves, which they declined, but after the CES they went back home with no deal. A year later they opened a U.S. office!
