Announcing COMMODORE 64 ULTIMATE

Brink said:

I loved playing Elite on the C64.

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So did I - at home. But at work there was a BBC Micro, and I'd spend many hours playing Elite on it (after work, of course )

Hazel123 said:

I haven't heard of Elite, but it looks a bit like space invaders? I was hooked on space invaders in the 80s Many of the pubs had big space invader machines.

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Space Invaders? Pah!

Elite was a fully open play game in 3D. You could play it any way you liked. Personally I became wealthy from hunting pirates, destroying them, collecting their cargo and trading it at a space station. You had to choose your trade planet carefully though, especially if the cargo was narcotics - you could get a criminal record trading those at most planets.

My very first computer was a Commodore VIC-20. It either came with or I purchased separately a cassette tape unit which was very unreliable, later replacing it with a 5.25" diskette drive. I thought I died and went to heaven.

OldMainframeGuy said:

My very first computer was a Commodore VIC-20. It either came with or I purchased separately a cassette tape unit which was very unreliable, later replacing it with a 5.25" diskette drive. I thought I died and went to heaven.

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We had the cassette tape unit with the Commodore 64 as well and it was indeed unreliable!

Hazel123 said:

We had the cassette tape unit with the Commodore 64 as well and it was indeed unreliable!

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I had that too, but the main sorrow with it was the speed it had. You had to search the right point on the cassette to load the right program and then that was loaded in very slow.

I was glad too I could attach the CBM 1541 floppy drive. From that time speed of loading was very much more quick. I made the floppies double sided by cutting a little notch at the other side... They were rather expensive in the beginning.

Bree said:

So did I - at home. But at work there was a BBC Micro, and I'd spend many hours playing Elite on it (after work, of course )



Space Invaders? Pah!

Elite was a fully open play game in 3D. You could play it any way you liked. Personally I became wealthy from hunting pirates, destroying them, collecting their cargo and trading it at a space station. You had to choose your trade planet carefully though, especially if the cargo was narcotics - you could get a criminal record trading those at most planets.

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That narrator! Very standard English - it sounds a bit like a BFI information film

The only real game I played was the Lord of the Rings Adventure game, which was in "real time". ie different things happened if you waited. It was fascinating. But very frustrating because if you got something wrong early on in the game and had saved it (on the awful cassette recorder) you had to go back and start all over again. Also there was a bug in it (goblin's cell section). I did finally get to the end of it only to find I had only scored 97% and having done it zillions of times, I had no idea where I had lost 3% and couldn't face doing it all again.

Played it all over again about 10 years ago on a netbook via dosbox. (The excuse was educational for our boy!)