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does any1 know where to get elite and repton from ???
can i get em on my pc ???
know they were bbc games ?? do i need a emulator ??
many thanks
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wow, those games bring back memories.... Repton rocks.... Had the whole set. and Elite, wow, that game was impossible to play when I had a BBC.... But on the PC at the time I had it sussed out, had the best ship, loaded up to it's eye balls.... ( wouldn't have happened if I didn't get the hint, of buying sertain goods and fly back 'n' forth the whole of the day to gain huge profits. at the end it was worth it  Now where to get the games and the emulator... No idea, try Goole and type BBC Emulators and games, you might have some luck there
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Elite came out on the CPC too - Amstrad Action had the full game on one of their covertapes.
Never got into it though.
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Yeah, I couldn't get my head around the game...... Every time I play it, it was short lived as I exit hyprospace ( or somethin' ) I get blasted by another ship..... everytime, and then I said...... hell with this, and ever since, collected dust. lol
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Elite V out next year
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Elite was also released on PC, I have a copy I downloaded somewhere on CD, plus Elite 2 and Frontier.
Cannot remember where I got it but try googling 'Elite PC game' and you should find it.
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Rig 2 : P2 266MHz (o/c to 300MHz), 96MB SDRAM, 3.2GB HD, nVidia Riva TNT2 32MB
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Rig 4 : Acorn Archimedes A3020, 12MHz ARM250, 4MB RAM
Rig 5 : Acorn Archimedes A3000, 8MHz ARM200, 4MB RAM
Also BBC Master 128K, BBC B 32K, Electron
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David Braben's company Frontier Developments has released, Elite, Frontier, and First Encounters as shareware (jolly good of them):
http://www.frontier.co.uk/resume.html
which links to:
http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/download/
...which is the DOS versions, to run First Encounters natively in Windows you'll want to Google for JJFFE
I've played original Elite on many machines and found it most enjoyable on the BBC Micro - It was an amazingly good game, I would sometimes play all day on it when I was a kid. And when you consider the hardware it was running on (1Mhz 8-bit 6502 CPU, 32Kb RAM), it really was remarkable, and no you can't run it in BBC BASIC, because it was written in 6502 assembly (duh!)...
ZX81, Spectrum, HX20, BBC Micro, A500, A1200(25Mhz '030, 2GB HD), RiscPC (SA), Mac Mini G4, Athlon XP2500 (ATI X800)
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