Nice comments, guys. I was bothered enough by Mark's comment to do some research into hand gestures and found some great videos with lots of advice on that and other topics. I also found a very convincing video that said forget about it lol!
To CKRtech: the framerates were horrible in the BBC Micro emulator, and I'm honestly not sure what it was like on an actual machine. The game stuttered bad whenever there were explosions or too many objects on the screen, making an already difficult game even more difficult to control. Again, I'm not sure what it was like on an original machine, but I'd love to hear if the framerate dropping was that bad. I didn't notice it at all on my C-64 back in the day.
Street Rod is another of my favorite oldies and probably worth a chat at some point. :)
Like Calibrator, I also tried to program my own game based on Elite for the C-64. I had fun, but unfortunately the game never materialized. :)
By the way, there are plenty of modern-day Elites out there, though you have to look carefully for them. Probably the best all around (from what I hear) is Eve Online, the MMO based on Elite. It looks like tons of fun and probably worth checking out some day.
Nice comments, guys. I was bothered enough by Mark's comment to do some research into hand gestures and found some great videos with lots of advice on that and other topics. I also found a very convincing video that said forget about it lol!
To CKRtech: the framerates were horrible in the BBC Micro emulator, and I'm honestly not sure what it was like on an actual machine. The game stuttered bad whenever there were explosions or too many objects on the screen, making an already difficult game even more difficult to control. Again, I'm not sure what it was like on an original machine, but I'd love to hear if the framerate dropping was that bad. I didn't notice it at all on my C-64 back in the day.
Street Rod is another of my favorite oldies and probably worth a chat at some point. :)
Like Calibrator, I also tried to program my own game based on Elite for the C-64. I had fun, but unfortunately the game never materialized. :)
By the way, there are plenty of modern-day Elites out there, though you have to look carefully for them. Probably the best all around (from what I hear) is Eve Online, the MMO based on Elite. It looks like tons of fun and probably worth checking out some day.
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