Comment Re:No comments on oolite yet? (Score 1) 173
You need to RTFM:
ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/e/Elite(Acorn).pdf
Comment Re:No comments on oolite yet? (Score 1) 173
I spent a while playing Christian Pinder's "Elite - The New Kind" which is basically Elite reverse-engineered, but with better graphics.
Google "elite new kind", a nice dose of nostalgia.
Comment Finally ... (Score 1) 1
This is great news for Elite fans - David Braben has kept a tight hold on the rights to "Elite", but it looks like it's finally getting made.
The only thing that puzzles me is how it's being funded - Braben's game studio, Frontier Development, has surely got the resources to make this game without needing money up front.
Comment Looks like a hoax (Score 1) 5
No source apart from p4r.buzzleberry.com, which has already been slashdotted.
Submission + - David Braben Kickstarts an Elite reboot (bbc.co.uk) 1
An anonymous reader writes: The BBC report that David Braben has launched a Kickstarter for a remake of Elite, the classic space trading game that he co-wrote in the 1980s. It has already received £122,000 in less than a day. Can it reach its goal of £1,250,000?
Submission + - Nokia "suspends" its free developer program (nokia.com) 2
jbernardo writes: Nokia has put in deep freeze its free developer program, the launchpad. Now, in the Developer Programs page, one can only see a pitch for a paid "Nokia Premium Developer Program", and below, in the Nokia Developer Pro and Developer Launchpad box, there is a text merely stating that Nokia are not currently accepting new applications for Nokia Developer Launchpad and Nokia Developer Pro programs. With most (if not all) Launchpad memberships already expired, seems like Nokia no longer is interested in the developer community, which once was one of the mainstays of its domination of the smartphone market. Of course, that domination was destroyed by Elop and its "burning platforms" memo, together with the failed bet on windows phone 7, so maybe giving up on developers would also be expectable.
