Darkmoon wrote:Captain Willard here, Bought my first computer in 1985, an Atari ST, I was 30 yrs old and elite was one of the first and best games I'd found.
A fellow ST'er! You must have gotten the original ST with the million cables! Slightly different situation for me - my parents bought me my first ST in 86 or 87 - The 520 STFM ( i think. I was 10 or 11 but I'd converted BBC basic to Apple basic & vice versa on our old Electron & My dad's work Apple 3. They encouraged my geekiness so got me the new fancy machine

). Internal psu, double sided floppy, and TV modulator built in! Eventually upgraded it to 1mb after some years, then when it finally broke I replaced it myself with the newer STe - I'd been saving my pocket money & odd job money to get myself a hard disk so it all worked out.
Elite was one of those games I'd come back to time & again, as was Frontier/FFE on the PC.
Good luck in game CMDR Willard!