Can't believe there's no dredgers or generation ships in /any/ version of Elite

I think they're planning to insert one into Oolite, there's a very active coding/design fanbase there. In the meantime, my imagination at work, greatly helped by painstaking pixel-by-pixel art under RO3.6:

You can see a generation ship being escorted by police Vipers.
A similar generation ship being taken over by Thargoids.
The Galacticy Navy masrhalling up for war.
A witchspace dogfight between the Navy and the Thargoids (with the occasional Cobra doing bountyhunting.
And finally, infamous pirate Zurid Pino enters the fray, on the side of the Thargoids of course.

It was a lot of fun drawing those. Did you know what they were partly inspired by the rumours in the game manual of a secret Navy base in Witchspace? Well, one really exists - hyperspace until you get a misjump and don't touch the mouse. Energy bomb the Thargoids or just outrun them, and keep interspacing until you get a mass lock (you often meet traders and pirates during this, just keep running straight). Eventually you'll come to a huge, abandoned space station











I once asked Ian Bell about this, and was told it's because an Witchspace jump is like a normal jump for the game, except that visually, the orientation radar and the sun/planet are missing - however, the station is still generated.

[Edited by filecore at 08:51, 1/10/2007]

hello again,

I tried to make an aldebaran ADF using dlmager, but I can't even read the program on a PC, let alone make an ADF.

Can someone please recommend another program along with a way to make this ADF?

Thanks.

Zarch is called Virus on the PC. Since it was originally coded under RISC OS and later ported to Windows, and actually came as a crippled demo game with RO3, called Lander.

I once asked Ian Bell about this, and was told it's because an Witchspace jump is like a normal jump for the game, except that visually, the orientation radar and the sun/planet are missing - however, the station is still generated.

Do you mean the original BBC Elite and manual or is this feature present in BBC Elite and ArcElite? What happeneds when you're there? Can it be destroyed "temporarily" like the other space stations?

Zarch is called Virus on the PC. Since it was originally coded under RISC OS and later ported to Windows, and actually came as a crippled demo game with RO3, called Lander.

Did Lander come with RO3? It certainly came with RO2, on the application disc - but I believe it originally came with the A305 Archimedes, still running Arthur (though I've never used Arthur, so I may be wrong).

Does anybody remember this game? It was on an Acorn Computing cover disc in 1993. Involved landing on multiple Zarch-like planets. Can't remember the publisher/

IIRC, it was Arc Angel's game. Much like Bobby Blockhead was Armaxxis's game. And SICK were going to release Scorpius. Dunno if any of the other Demo crews did any games.

Wonder what ever happend to those guys, they're probably working for some big software house now. I know two of SICK are professors in America now (last I read).