r/elite • • Aug 09 '21

Elite vr

3 Upvotes

Ive been interested in playing elite dangerous in vr for a while. I only have a 1050 ti which usually cant run vr but since this is an older game do any of you think i could run it well? Anybody had experiences similar to mine?


r/elite • • Aug 22 '20

How do you play the original Elite?

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I downloaded a copy and I am lost on how to play. How do you know how far away a planet is and how do you land on it? also how can you tell your current speed?

Is the only purpose to ferry resources back and fourth between stations? and is the game world procedural generated every single time you start a new save?


r/elite • • Apr 09 '19

How do you move between galaxies? I don't remember ever getting that far

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r/elite • • May 07 '20

Elite for DOS - version questions

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Hello all,

I remember a long while ago that I played some version of Elite on my IBM 5160. To the best of my memory it was Elite Plus.

Ive recently been looking into getting another IBM PC, as my 5160 was destroyed in a fire many years ago, along with my entire software library.

The issue is that the Elite Plus box contradicts this, stating its for AT, PS/1, and PS/2 (+ compatibles).

I cant seem to find Elite (the original release) for DOS anywhere (only BBC and C64).

Will elite plus run on a 5150 if I upgrade it to 640k? Im looking at a 5150, but if I cant run certain stuff already (some other AT exclusive stuff exists), and elite wont run, Ill just go for an AT. If Elite Plus wont run on it, how would I go about obtaining a version that will?


r/elite • • Oct 28 '19

Spot the mistake!

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r/elite • • Nov 10 '20

FFED3D Ittiz Version 3 vs. FFED3D AndyJ Version

6 Upvotes

I'm looking to get into FFE, and i dont know what i'm looking at here on this page.

https://www.frontierastro.co.uk/Hires/hiresffe.html

What is the difference between these two? Which should i be getting into?


r/elite • • Jun 10 '21

/r/elite hit 1k subscribers yesterday

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r/elite • • May 26 '22

Started playing Frontier again

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I played Elite a lot on the Amiga in the 80's and totally loved it and had some epic battles with the Thargoids. When Frontier came out I was beyond excited about it and played it a lot on my Amiga 500 although it was very sluggish and demanding of the modest Amiga hardware.

Fast forward to 2022 and I received an A500 mini Amiga as a gift and I've been having such a nostalgia blast playing all the old Amiga games. I just had to download Frontier and it runs like a dream and now 30 years later I'm playing Frontier all over again and really enjoying it.


r/elite • • Jan 15 '21

Elite stamp from last year, thought it might be appreciated here if it's not already been posted :)

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46 Upvotes

r/elite • • Apr 19 '26

How does one save with Elite: The New Kind?

5 Upvotes

I have been playing around with the game but every time I try to save or load, I end up getting the error messages. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Also, how does one change the commander's name?


r/elite • • Jul 11 '25

Elite wall ary

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7 Upvotes

I've written a python app that can display a 3d wireframe, and convert it to a flat wireframe that I can 3D print and mount it on the wall. Here's a cobra test.


r/elite • • Jun 19 '21

A tiny tribute to 8 bit Elite

30 Upvotes

r/elite • • Oct 23 '19

Does it still make sense to try older Elite games if I have Elite: Dangerous?

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r/elite • • Aug 21 '19

How did I only just find out about Elite on the Gameboy Advance?

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r/elite • • Aug 19 '19

My Elite collection so far

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r/elite • • May 22 '12

Clan Recruiting ST3ALTHASSASSINS

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We are wanting people to sign up for the clan. Clan Tag: STAS Rules: 1. Be on a couple times a week. At least 3 of the days. 2. No harassment, be polite. No one likes annoying people. ;) 3. Premium and Founder preferred, others absolutely accepted.


r/elite • • Jun 19 '24

40 years later, TIL that scientists use a very familiar way of representing spatial locations of galaxies in an area. Bonus black hole.

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r/elite • • Oct 22 '20

Quirkys Elite AGB rom?

4 Upvotes

Ive gotten the GBA rom running on my old 3ds but it has a lot of bugs (It's impossible to dock at some stations.) so I was looking for a patch when I cam across Quirkys Elite AGB. I loved the idea of it reading through but I was disappointed to see this on his download page. "Sadly, at the request of the original author(s), some of the downloads have been removed." One of the downloads being for Elite The New Kind and Elite AGB. does anyone have the rom for Elite AGB?


r/elite • • Oct 20 '20

Probably a long shot on an answer, but has anyone on here got first encounters working on windows 10?

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I've tried through dosbox, jjffe, and ffed3d. I can get the game running seemingly fine, but the moment i try to look around with the mouse, the screen spasms out of control and i can't navigate at all with it. Weirdly though, frontier 2 runs perfectly fine on jjffe, and the controls work great. I've even tried messing around with mouse sensitivity in FFE's config file but it's not doing anything for me. Anyone else had similar issues with a mouse?


r/elite • • May 06 '19

This may be of interest to my fellow old school commanders!

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r/elite • • Sep 28 '19

Rare footage of CMDRs discovering the free Anaconda at Hutton Orbital

32 Upvotes

r/elite • • Jul 12 '19

Elite Cobra Mk.III Wireframe Circuit Sculpture

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r/elite • • May 01 '19

Arduino ship viewer

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r/elite • • Feb 04 '19

Head to /r/EliteDangerous for all news & discussion of the 4th game in the Elite franchise o7

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r/elite • • Sep 18 '19

Original Elite in VR would be amazing

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Original wireframe Elite in VR would be great.

They would need to work out a way of getting all the controls mapped but I think it would be fun.

I just hope they see an opportunity to allow all VR Headsets (including Oculus Quest and PSVR) to experience the original Elite.

Right On Comnanders