Gameguru Mania

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PAGE 46 PCGAMER UK JULY 2004

Confirmation , elite 4 is launching - release mid 2006
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[maga]

nobody will care by then....

[madda]

whats elite four?
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and you call yourself gamers

This was the original elite below

It was made up of in the region of 250,000 lines of 68000 assembler, and as such was one of the largest (and last) commercial programs to be written entirely in assembler

Frontier" also set a number of firsts. It was the first game to have real-sized planets, where cities could be viewed from orbit, it was the first to use curved surfaces (bezier), the only game to do a palette-fit every frame to get best use of colours (Amiga and ST only), and (apart from First Encounters) is the only piece of software (games or otherwise) that attempts to simulate our entire galaxy.

Planets orbit and rotate correctly, so if you stay in one spot you will see sunrises, and the progression of stars, planets and moons through the night sky. It is possible to watch Saturn-rise from one of its moons.

Due to Gametek Inc's disappearance, accurate sales figures are not known. Royalties were received for around 350,000 sales but it appears that actual sales were in excess of 500,000 units.
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[madda]

wow that sounds like a bloody good game, shame i havent experienced it! I think i missed out on that one!
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[maga]