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(C) 1997 by Sergei Novikov

ELITE

В "Ревю" пробегало всякое вранье, что существует неимоверно
крутая 128-ая версия с космическими платформами, что в фирменной
128-ой версии было 7 (6?) секретных миссий и т. п. Вот что зна-
чится по этому поводу в THE SPECTRUM GAME DATABASE:

ELITE

PUBLISHER: Firebird
AUTHOR: Torus
YEAR: 1985

SEQUELS/PREQU!LS

There are several versions of Elite on the Spectrum, most
notable a 48K and 128K version, although there is very little
diffаrence between the two.

SN> Т.е. 128 почти ничем не отличалась.

Elite was followed up with Frontier (written by Elite's
original author David Braben), although not on the Spectrum.
There was also the *original* ELITE Tuner, which was written by
the same bloke who wrote the WHAM Music Box. I forget his name
though.

Elite Tuner had some superb 2-channel music - Waltz of the Blue
(Danube. (funnily enough!)

SN> Т.е. была еще какая-то прога от автора WHAM'a, прокручиваю-
щая фирменный "элитный музон" by Musorgsky.

ELITE is possibly the most well-known computer game ever.
When it made it's appearence on the Spectrum, it was thankb to
Firebird Gold - the full-price range of their software, and
programmed by a team called TORUS (who also coded the Amstrad
version, hence why apart from added colour, the two look & play
the same.) All the space trading tactics were faithfully
translated from the BBC original, and there were new missions
for the format - SuperNova, Cloaking Device & Thargoid Invasion,
and many of the spacecraft made it to the 'humble' Spectrum.
Many of the rumours also made it across - there was, alas, no
space dredge" in the ZX ELITE...

SN> Короче, все началось с BBC MICRO.

ELITE was also one of the first games to be found not
compatible wit (the brand new 128k Spectrum. A patched version
was released almost immediatly, although it was rather sad that
with all the extra memory, nothing new was added to the enhanced
machine.

SN> Вкратце, "Элита" вышла в 85-м, когда появился Спектрум-128,
и на неи она не шла. Вот почему вышла 128-ая, которая, однако,
от 48 ничем не отличалась.

When Elite was first released, it waв part of a competition
to see who the first person was to become elite. The winner was
supposed to get some prize or other. This was to do with all the
secret missions and what have you. In fact, this may even have
been from the original Beeb release, but I think it was for the
Spectrum. Anyway, the publishers got cold feet about it because
it was alleged that people had hacke$ in and found it out the
'easy' way, so it was cancelled and anyone who entered was
fobbed off with a badge or something. It caЁsed quite a bit of
controversy at the time as I recall.

SN> Просто для эрудиции. :)

Does the Speccy version include any of the secret missions,
such as destroying the secret ship, the rogue space-station,
etc? Yes. The first mission, is 'Nova' and r quires you (to
manouvre down this trench... sorry - wrong game!) rescue the
crew of a Space Station whose sun is about to expl*de. When you
arrive in the system, the screen is red, not white, you get a
'Fuel Leak!' warning (A cunning way of making sure you don't
chicken out, and witchspace outta there,) and you only have a
short time to get to the space station. Your reward is 00g of
gems, and to trigger the mission you need to be ranked competent
or above, and have purchased a galactic hyperspace - When you
activate your space drive, (presumably) the radiation from the
Nova bumps you into the next Galaxy.

Mission 2 involves a(bunch of ships that flicker in and out
of vision. They're quite easy to kill though. Eventually, you'll
come up against a single ASP II, which when (finally) destroyed
will release a single cargo canister, as opposed to the 2 alloys
normally released asаdebris. Scoop this cargo, and you'll find
yourself automagically cloak-capable. Pressing "Y" will activate
the cloak - your s"reen goes blue, and all other ships float/
drift, power-down, including Thargoids. The Cloak has a pretty
hefty drain on the energy units though...

Mission 3 you get to destroy a Space Station! The Space navy
equips you with an ECM Jammer, which replaceb your standard ECM
unit, and off you go to have a bish at a Space Station over-run
by Thargoids. You can make a fortune on this mission by blasting
Thargoids, and scooping Tharglets.

SN> Hу это все ясно и так было. :(

ZX Elite only has the one type of eкergy unit. The reason for
the Military Energy unit was from BBC Elite, where a mission was
to hunt a new type of ship - The Constrictor - which was
equipped with the Military Energy unit, and was thusly imper-
vious to anything less that Military lasers. Constrictor mission
isn't present in ZX Elite, so no Military Energy unit.

SN> Military Energy Unit!!! Хочу! :) Даже на BBC MICRO был такой
корабль - Констриктор, который обладал этим дeвайсом.

The following are approximate shapes drawn based on the bards
supplied with the Archimedes version (Darren Salt):

SN> Hеужели все это было на Спекки? :-? И где?

Adder Anacoda Asp Boa
__________ / _______ /\n
| ______ | //\ / / \n
| |______| | //\ // \ / \n
| | //__\ // \ / / \n
|__________| / / /_/_ __ / / \n
|| || // \ ----_____---- / / / / \n
|| /|| || / / /| / / / / \n
|| ||/ || / / \ / | // (________\n
||__________|| _/_______/ \/____|____// |________|

Cobra MK 1 Cobra Mk 3 Fer-de-Lance Gecko
______ __ / _____
/__== | / / \n
| |-_ / // \
| | --_ / // | | \
| | ( -- / / / / | | \n
| _- | | _- / /| | / / /| | \n
| _- ||| | - | / / | | / / /| | \n
| -_||| | / -_ | / / | | / / /| | \n
| -_| | / - / / /___| |___ _/____________/
| / | / _--/ /___ ___\n
| / | /_-- / ---______--- /
|___ / |/- / __-- --__ /
__==__/ |__/ ==__________==/

Krait Mamba Moray

. . . / ________
| /| | //\ / \n
| / | | // \ / / \n
| / | | / /[] / / \n
| / | | / / / / \n
| / | | / / /___/_______________\n
|/ | | / / ---____ ____---
--__ | __-- /___/_________ ---__---
--__и__--
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Orbit Shuttle Python Sidewinder

____ /| _________
_==----==_ / | / /\n
| / | / | / / \n
| / | / | / / \n
| / | / | / / \n
| / | / | /________/________\n
| / | / _|_ \n
| / | / __-- --__ Thargon
| / ( /_==___________==_ ___
| / | / | |
|/ | \ // | |
|/________| / / | |_| |
__ /__/ | |_| |
--_/-- --___--

Thargoid Transpoter Viper (Police)
________ ___ /\n
/ / __-- /--__ //\
/ ____/ ==_____V_____== // \
/_ / _ | | | / / \n
| --/ -- | | | /| | / / / \n
| | | | | ==== | | / // \ \n
| | | | | ___ | . | / // \ \n
|__-- /--__| | |/ | /_ | / / \n
____ / / | | | --/________--
/ / |_______|_______|
/______ /

Worm
_____
/|/_|\n
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | ( |
| | | |
--|_______|--


SN> Вот и все!
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