Nice to see you back Drew, BTW you got me at load new commander as i involuntarily hit the y button. forgetting that i have not had a spectrum in many years..well-done commander and best wishes from Wales. one last thing REMEMBER

So we tried taking the Ender's game approach.

And colonization in 2025!!!!

Watching this in 2025 January! Am a new Cmdr and this storyline just makes the game more immersed and with a purpose...

This is so cool, i think I'm falling in love with the Elite Dangerous universe

I have always been wondering, what does "the Foul are abroad" actually mean?

I wonder what the guardian sentient machines would think if they saw we used viral warfare like the guardians they decided to destroy for the same reasons…

I've started googling that cobra/asp led thing on the piano. I want one. Please tell me that wasn't video cgi!

I'm 52 and have only recently learned of this game, I would have absolutely loved this when I was in my teens and lived on the spectrum. My retro spectrum will be here Sunday and Lords of Midnight is on it.

This is just great I wish I had seen it sooner. o7

a lovely cover

right on parr with my own cover my firend.. nice

***** Love it Drew

The first time I understand what those kids see in video game streamers. Everything about this video is very entertaining. I have Frontier installed and I could play it right now but I'd rather watch this. Loved the piano intro theme.

In fairness to the capital punishment at a moments notice in ED (ik I'm taking a joke seriously 3 years late). You're not being shot because your loitering. You're being shot because you're loitering a massive spaceship with incredible destructive potential. It's less parking a car in the wrong bay and more flying off course above a military airfield.

Is it safe to assume a part 5 is comming soon? Now that the war appears to be over.

Curious how you feel at this point in time, with Elite having a wee renaissance. Would be good to get a recap or retrospective on the last few years

Love the walk down memory lane at the beginning!!!

Think I’m going to buy a 92 golf with an aba bottom end swap. It’s fantastic under when under acceleration. There are 2 things I’m not so sure about. 1 is at idle the rpms will just steadily fluctuate between 1000 and 1200 rpms. The owner thinks it is due to the tune that may be on it. The other thing is the owner told me when the engine is cold, and it has set for several days there will be smoke coming from the exhaust upon startup. I did not witness this as it was already warm.

Great vid. Thanks for posting, Drew. I'll try not to take it too personally that you failed to mention the Acorn Electron 😆 Like the BBC Micro version, except for... • No Continents on planets • No Suns • and No colour at all - not even shades of grey

Looks like the religious sect of Guardians got the last laugh ultimately, and were correct.

Raxxla is a plant. Some people smoke it...

My favourite part was - and stop reading if you haven't watched it all - is when Drew showed off Lave station from all four games' perspectives at the same time. Skillfully and masterfully showcasing the advancement of technology in the video game industry all the while producing a still baffling sense of nostalgia for the viewer. I remember, some twenty years ago, delving into the Elite franchise's games, and here I am, two decades later, taking my first steps into the newest iteration, Elite: Dangerous Odyssey. Truly remarkable stuff, really.

i believe "the club" is intended to be the in game equivalent to the developers themselves

1:49:18 Well, you might have a color limit on the Amiga 500 with only 32 or 64 colors at best. But on the PC, you had 256 colors with VGA available. The game doesn't support EGA or CGA. Also, black is already used in the cockpit graphics.

1:36:52 The textures were a nice thing in Frontier: Elite II. It was one of the first game, that made use of textures. Thus this was very impressive at that time.

1:24:57 That's a nice thing i didn't know.

1:14:37 Definitely not. It may be technically impressive, but Newtonian physics ruins the gameplay unless you want to play KSP. And even in Kerbal Space Program you get a lot of help to at least somewhat master the orbital mechanics.

I was a member of CoR for years. Would love to get back in. Just recently got into Odyssey and honestly I am mind blown about where the game is now.

These was great. Especially now that SOL System is next.

These was great. Especially now that SOL System is next.

This kind of stuff needs to be in the game as cut scenes. Not audio clips and a screenshot. It would be great if Elite had a story mode. That’s what hooked me on the original Guild Wars series of games years ago.

28:25 Frontier: First Encounter was not a success because most players already knew from their experience with Frontier: Elite II that the realistic inertia mechanics meant that the game was not fun to play, especially in combat. Windows 95 was less of a problem. While it is true that this program, written in assembly language, required DOS, but Windows 95 and Windows 98 provided a way to exit Windows and boot into DOS. So it was relatively easy to get it to work if you wanted to. My guess is that it used its own DOS extender that was incompatible with DPMI. Or it used Unreal Mode, which was also incompatible with Windows' DPMI Host.

The original BBC version was just 22kb in size and blew the minds of the designers of the BBC Micro. I think they created a custom display setup (not just the mode split) such that the horizontal pixel count was lower so as to free up memory. The 128k spect had several times the memory and could switch between 2 frame buffers.

BTW, could you please number these lore videos from one to one hundred for example that we can watch it uninterrupted. Now it's a bit confusing. KZbin does not arrange them correctly as thee is Thargoids part one and part two. It thinks those are separate from the lore...

Started playing ED recently and found this gem of a site. Please continue making such informative content, o7!

FF to 8 mins 6 seconds

I loved this Drew, I was back there in 1984 and this game had a dramatic effect on me, especially I was just reading LOTR at the time. A game and lore I keep returning to, now playing the ios versions. Thank you.

Played this off and on the last idk 5 years never really got into it got into groups that just fed money to me and I didn't learn this time the past idk month I have sat down and started learning on my own with what I picked up over the past off and on in the past five years and I am finally enjoying the game the way I wanted to. I finally have a python and working on fed grind just for the corvette then I'll move on from there. And I will be listening to this the next few days with a huge thank you from me. ❤

I’ve enjoyed these streams of Wing Commander, but I’ve realised I prefer the experience of WC1 and WC2. I find the difference between the real actors in cut scenes and the computer graphics elsewhere pulls me out of the immersion. I’m wondering if that will change when the cut scenes are all CGI again.

Act of genius it stops over reliance on docking computers 😁😁😁

I am sure Drew's voice would do better. This one sounds sort of empty.

Great job sir. Wonderful.

A shame I missed this. E:D hooked me and learning the history behind the creation of Elite for the BBC Micro cemented the series in my brain as an all time favorite.