Gilmor In The Net

Ho deciso di dedicare questa pagina ad uno dei videogames più belli che abbia mai avuto il piacere di giocare. Sto parlando della gloriosa saga di Elite, Frontier: Elite 2 e Frontier: First Encounter.

Elite, il primo capitolo della saga, uscì nel 1984 e ancora oggi, dopo 25 anni, ci sono appassionati che non solo ci giocano ma che hanno realizzato dei porting spettacolari, che tengono in vita siti web e newsgroup dedicati a questa trilogia.

Qui riporterò un discreto numero di links e magari anche una galleria di immagini, vedremo. Iniziamo pure con un collegamento diretto a Wikipedia riguardo i tre giochi in questione:

• Elite
• Frontier: Elite 2
• Frontier: First Encounter

Voglio anche ricordare il newsgroup: alt.fan.elite, attivo e produttivo e il molto meno attivo alt.fan.elite.project.

George Hooper, I’ve stolen this image from your website. If you want me to remove, just say. Thanks!

And here we arrive to the international corner of this page! Here are all the web links I’ve found out about E*FE2*FFE… If there’s something I’ve missed, please tell me so that I can keep this updated! Thanks

• Alioth.net: home of the Alliance! Made and mantained by Dylan Smith! Very nice website with a lot of good contents!
• Elite Strike: a mod for the nice Vega Strike game
• Elite Wiki: hosted by Alioth.net the most comprehensive wiki about our Trilogy!
• FrontierAstro:  a very good site about astronomy and videogaming!
• Frontier First Encounters Art Page: the awesome pages mantained by George Hooper! You can find a lot of useful and nice stuffs and belive me… There’s plenty of it!! Don’t miss it!!
• Frontierverse: this is the amazing work of Robin Sharrock. Very nice things here, too!
• Ian Bell’s Elite Page: well, if you don’t know who is Ian Bell, you are on the wrong page…
• JJFFE Central: old but still very effective web page where to find informations and links! Official home for the JJFFE project!
• Elite Club: very minimalistic, with some infos in it. Still on the run, anyway!

Ceowulf, form alt.fan.elite had kindly suggested these sites:

• FFED3D, a very cool project developed by “a very talented Russian lad DreamZzz“. Well, you really have to see that masterpiece. A lot of thing are to improve but… Go and check it out. It’s astounding! Unfortunately the forum is almost totally in russian but HERE you can download the patches!
• Dream-Ware, a collection of “ALL of the music found in Elite, FE:2 and FF:E converted to both midi format AND mp3 formats!“. A lot will directly go on my mobile phone!

Thanks to Ceowulf!