![]() ![]() The explosion expands in a sphere from the point of initial detonation. Secondary explosions (the strongest caused by theĭestruction of its victims’ hyperdrives) progress in much the same way, catching further objects andĬausing them to explode, until there is no more significant matter to be consumed by the expanding Initial Q-bomb explosion is only the start. Same way as the original detonation, resulting in a domino effect. The gravitic shockwave it emits causesĪny matter caught within its range to be annihilated in another gravitic flash which expands in the Although it is physically very small, its effect has been describedĪs being ‘like a miniature supernova, and just as deadly’. QuoteSimply put, a Q-bomb (or to use its proper name, the Tyley-Feynman Quirium cascade The game in its Vanilla form (no addons) plays very much like the original, but has a number of differences the ability to buy a different ships, special cargo missions, solid filled graphics with textures and nebulae effects.Įxcert from fan made Oolite novel from Drew Wagar The game and source code are offered for free under the GNU General Public License. It requires at least a 400 MHz processor, 256 MiB of memory, and a graphics card capable of accelerating OpenGL graphics. Originally written for Mac OS X, and under continuous development for over five years, Oolite is available for Mac OS X (10.3.9 and higher) and PCs running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Linux. Almost every aspect of the game can be changed by using simple, free graphics packages and text editors. QuoteOolite is a space sim game, inspired by Elite, powered by Objective-C and OpenGL, and designed as a small game that is easy for users to pick up, modify and expand upon. Oolite is available on Windows, Mac, Linux Likewise if your the pirate you will gain a bounty on your head, Galcop will seek and destroy you, even if the bounty on your head was only for a small unpaid parking fine (damn double yellow line asteroids!). Pirates will attack on you the player if your lucky Galcop (space police) may intervene and save your ass. The universe is also alive with npc's all set with the different roles of trader, pirate, bounty hunter, Galcop or asteroid miner. The game is open ended the driving force to play being to reach the holy grail the rank of elite, a feat I haven't reached, currently Iam dangerous on Oolite with 2049 kills (I may have been a bit higher, but lost my save when my computer died. Players of elite could role-play to a certain degree and pick a professional or role for their character ranging from trader, pirate, bounty hunter or asteroid miner, my personal favourite being a bounty hunter and sometimes when no ones looking I take a sneaky pirate kill. The universe in Elite is pretty expansive for such an old game consisting of 8 galaxies of 256 planets in each galaxy, so there is room for plenty of exploration. The game itself was a space simulation which also had the ability to trade buy-able commodities between planets, having a stock-market where prices fluctuated, more-so between planets of differing economies e.g. It was available on a number of the 8bit machines and also had 16bit iterations. The Original Elite programmed by David Braben and Ian Bell was first published by Acornsoft in 1984. The cities of both Humankind and Lavian glittered among the verdant blanket below like bright shards of glass. They were approaching the continental mass that was FirstFall, and promising a bleak and wet few days to the swathes of forest and the deep, snaking valleys that cut through the rugged land. There were storms moving across the Paluberion Sea, six great whorls of pink and white cloud. The planet Lave, below, rotated in blue- green splendour. The space station gently span away into the shadows and the small Ophidian class vessel shuddered as its motors angled it round towards the Faraway jump. QuoteFrom the moment that the trading ship, Avalonia, slipped its orbital berth above the planet Lave, and began to manoeuvre for the hyperspace jump point, its measureable life-span, and that of one of its two-man crew, was exactly eighteen minutes. The game in focus is a well known space trader / simulation game called Elite or its present day incarnation Oolite.Įxcert from the Elite novel Dark Wheel by Robert Holdstock included with the original Elite I have decided to write a article on a game I have been playing for many years, both in the present and back to the days when I gamed on a little 8bit computer affectionately called the Speccy or Spectrum. ![]()
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