In article <3c1694a1@news.povray.org>, James Taylor <james@jamestaylor.
fsworld.co.uk> writes
>...however frontier never really lived up to expectations and I remember
>still playing elite after I bought frontier.
>As I remember I achieved a pretty fine rating. maybe its time to dig the
>A500 out....although I hear theres a soon to be released version of elite
>(release 4 maybe) for the PC which should be mostly funkadelic.
>
>"Elite, a game? It's a way of life" ;-)

I always preferred Frontier over Elite or FFE (Frontier: First
Encounters). Never could get the hang of docking in Elite, always
crashed ;).

Elite 4 isn't due out till about 2004 the way it's going at the minute.
For the record you can now download FFE from www.eliteclub.co.uk and
then get JJFFE from www.jaj22.demon.co.uk to make it run on windows.
Good fun :).
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David Parrott wrote:
> For the record you can now download FFE from www.eliteclub.co.uk and
> then get JJFFE from www.jaj22.demon.co.uk to make it run on windows.

Too bad I can't figure out how to flay my computer memory settings
to be able to run Frontier, or I'd be playing that instead (tho I have
grown fond of the RIG items)

...which brings us back to: simulating entire solar systems in POV.
Braben can do it, so should we! ;)
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James Taylor wrote:
> maybe I could put a couple of pirates fighting (in mechs) over
> illegal goods (firearms etc) in front of the space port while
> some viper police dude is attempting to shoot the cobra down
> for having "forgotten" to get launch permision...

I'd think the blues would be worrying more about the mechs than
a moving violation that's a 500 credit fine...

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On Sat, 08 Dec 2001 08:45:16 -0500, "Timothy R. Cook"
<tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote:

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>David Fontaine wrote:
>> I like the colors and sharp contrast, but it's hard to discern much.  I
>> assume you were going for an artistic look though.
>
>I wasn't...attached image is more like what I was looking for.
>Render time 03:36:03.
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	I miss playing Frontier (Elite 2) on my Amiga.
	Good picture except for one thing ... the
flames from the engine look like a solid glowing
crystal, not a hot glowing gas.

Pete

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Pet### [at] nymaliasnetalmost wrote:
>         Good picture except for one thing ... the
> flames from the engine look like a solid glowing
> crystal, not a hot glowing gas.

I know, but after fiddling around with media for a few hours
trying to produce result X, I came up with result R that looked
nice enough to say 'looks good enough for now'...

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On Fri, 07 Dec 2001 19:07:58 -0500, Timothy R. Cook wrote:

>Cobra Mk. III leaving atmosphere of Merlin in the Ross 154 system.
>Lens flare extras are bit distracting, but main flare looks nice.
>Render time 6 hours 57 minutes 28 seconds.  Cobra III mesh
>imported into RAW triangle format by hand from John Mackay's
>VRML model.

I've found the illusive class 4 military drive so I'll be waiting 
the othere side of your hyperjump clod and blow you away:-)

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Steve wrote:
> I've found the illusive class 4 military drive so I'll be waiting
> the othere side of your hyperjump clod and blow you away:-)

So you have a c4 military drive...big deal!  I've got a Large Plasma
Accelerator and 50 shield generators (don't ask how I fit them in a
Cobra III).

Bumper sticker: My other ship's a Thargoid Cruiser.

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> > I've found the illusive class 4 military drive so I'll be waiting
> > the othere side of your hyperjump clod and blow you away:-)
> 
> So you have a c4 military drive...big deal!  I've got a Large Plasma
> Accelerator and 50 shield generators (don't ask how I fit them in a
> Cobra III).
> 
> Bumper sticker: My other ship's a Thargoid Cruiser.

I always found that a Panther (Also known as Bigtrak :) with two small 
plasma accelerators (one in each turret), 50 shield gens, auto repair and 
any other toys I fancied made life easier in Frontier.  Although I did 
occasionally clip myself with the plasma accelerator and knock down all 
of my shields and quite a lot of hull as well.

It's amazing what you can afford if you have lots of patience on the Sol 
<-> Barnards Star run <grin>

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:34:13 -0000, Jamie Davison wrote:
>> > I've found the illusive class 4 military drive so I'll be waiting
>> > the othere side of your hyperjump clod and blow you away:-)
>> 
>> So you have a c4 military drive...big deal!  I've got a Large Plasma
>> Accelerator and 50 shield generators (don't ask how I fit them in a
>> Cobra III).
>> 
>> Bumper sticker: My other ship's a Thargoid Cruiser.
>
>I always found that a Panther (Also known as Bigtrak :) with two small 
>plasma accelerators (one in each turret), 50 shield gens, auto repair and 
>any other toys I fancied made life easier in Frontier.  Although I did 
>occasionally clip myself with the plasma accelerator and knock down all 
>of my shields and quite a lot of hull as well.
>
>It's amazing what you can afford if you have lots of patience on the Sol 
><-> Barnards Star run <grin>

My home is propbably Facec (sp?) but I'm quite often found doing runos between
Lave - Ridquat, Diso and Lesti you can always get some serious agro over 
that way:-)

My ship's over on the win machine so I don't get to play out much these days,
they sould make a UNIX version. 

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:34:13 -0000, Jamie Davison wrote:
>> > I've found the illusive class 4 military drive so I'll be waiting
>> > the othere side of your hyperjump clod and blow you away:-)
>> 
>> So you have a c4 military drive...big deal!  I've got a Large Plasma
>> Accelerator and 50 shield generators (don't ask how I fit them in a
>> Cobra III).
>> 
>> Bumper sticker: My other ship's a Thargoid Cruiser.
>
>I always found that a Panther (Also known as Bigtrak :) with two small 
>plasma accelerators (one in each turret), 50 shield gens, auto repair and 
>any other toys I fancied made life easier in Frontier.  Although I did 
>occasionally clip myself with the plasma accelerator and knock down all 
>of my shields and quite a lot of hull as well.
>
>It's amazing what you can afford if you have lots of patience on the Sol 
><-> Barnards Star run <grin>

PS: I've had the same pilot/game going since 1995. 

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