I think for the young-uns on here who grew up with playstations and the like, you need to know why Elite was so amazing. Basically us lot at school were stepping up from dross like this to 128 kilobytes of BBC micro heaven! Awesome days!
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What was a "pocket simon"?
Pocket simon was a little one of these!
This is now more addictive than lurking on here! I am now fit for nothing for the next few days...
I need to get my old laptop working so I can get my Oolite saves off it...and then kiss goodbye to a few days out of my life playing it
Still the best game ever imho. Who cares about photorealistic imagaery? Only reason I don't play it (plus Frontier, Oolite, or that online pay-for equivalent) now is because I'd be addicted.
Amstrad CPC version had a handy bug... leave Space Station, Hyperspace to Destination, hit Pause, Save Game, then you'd be in the Destination Space Station 
Makes trading Narcotics and other dodgy stuff easy, no Police Viper ships, then go clean, and buy up all the Military Lasers etc. when you have basically shedloads of Credits.
Model B Elite for me - only every got up to Deady and never progressed beyond that unfortunately - got a bit bored eventually because the Model B version didn't have the missions.
There was a cheat to get the mid-hyperspace Tharg invasion - just hit tab lots while the hyperspace countdown was going. I used to do that and then blow up an energy bomb to kill them all
Model B with the F keys note under the clear plastic strip, anyone?
Starglider, that was the other one.
Made me buy an ST, that did. Saw it at a mates and was blown away.
For those who got stuck at Deadly on original Elite, you needed to do the Constrictor special mission. This wasn't on the BBC tape version. I also remember having to type in thousands of lines of code to get Military Lasers via a save editor, and deducted the cost from my money as cheating was for suckers.
Tab for Thargoids was awesome.
I had a voltmace analog joystick, happy days.
If Elite was redone today with multiplayer & instant messaging that would cause the earth to standstill!
was fun on the bbc way back when, i also enjoyed joust! and tetris and erm dungeon master, that might have been on the amiga?
Docking is easy. Fly up to the station, turn around and point to the sun. Fly out a ways, then fly back towards the station - you'll be right on target to approach the entrance. Fly right up to it (but not so close you'll crash into things coming out), stop and wait for it to rotate level, then gas it.
Takes about 30 seconds. Piece of wee.
@molgrips
Back in the days of digital joysticks I found it relatively easy... With this blasted analogue stick I'm all fingers and thumbs.
Do I have to download it and show you how it's done?
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