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Thank you for the donations over the past year (2024), it is much appreciated. I am still trying to figure out how to migrate the forums to another community software (probably phpbb) but in the meantime I have updated the forum software to the latest version. SSC has been around a while so their is some very long time members here still using the site, thanks for making SSC home and sorry I haven't been as vocal as I should be in the forums I will try to improve my posting frequency.

Thank you again to all of the members that do take the time to donate a little, it helps keep this station functioning on the outer reaches of space.

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Well i am Happy..i have found u

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tsgiannis

(@tsgiannis)

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Hi to everybody

Well i am really glad i have found you...i am sick of all this FPS games....i can't really see the fun....but Elite and the likes are just a different kind...i just can't describe the thrill of playing into the emptyiness of space.

I believe i will never get the same excitement i got around 25 years ago i shut down to play Elite and found myself trying to evade a nasty Thargoid...well it was a duel that lasted 2.5 hours ...it started in the planet and ended somewhere near the sun...me and my under powered Combra MKIII with nothing else than the rookie lasers ...but i WON...i blasted the s*n of a B!tch into a million pieces.

Well i just love i have found u...and greetings from Greece

P.s i just ended a course in C and probably i will move to C++ or C# so if there is some source code of Elite i would really like to take a look to level up my programming skills.

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Topic starter Posted : June 21, 2010 21:44

Geraldine

(@geraldine)

Famed Member

Hi there, didn't I see you on the Frontier forum? Well, welcome to the SSC too 🙂 Remember (if you have not already) to check out the downloads section for lots of related space sim goodies. Have fun!

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Posted : June 22, 2010 01:06

tsgiannis

(@tsgiannis)

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Well i have registered to both

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Topic starter Posted : June 22, 2010 01:16

DarkOne

(@sscadmin)

Illustrious Member Admin

Welcome tsgiannis and do checkout the link area as well there is a nice compiled list of games that grows all the time. There is some great people here and a few games talked about here. And if your in the right thread there are usually devs for the newer games hanging around that you can get some questions answered.

And hopefully someday I can get around to learning C++ myself I need to do something different for the daily job 🙂

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Posted : June 22, 2010 04:51

tsgiannis

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Darkone wrote:

And hopefully someday I can get around to learning C++ myself I need to do something different for the daily job 🙂

This is trully a great site with great people.Its so nice to finally find a "home" for my playing and developing needs.

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Topic starter Posted : June 22, 2010 07:37

Potsmoke66

(@potsmoke66)

Noble Member

nice to see a hellene in this little galaxy

source for elite i guess isn't available, guess the original game was neither written in C, i'm not shure, what i know is that Frontier only partwisely is written in C, the rest is true assembler, think of the limited space of a DD floppy and the depth of the game, it can't be written in a "speakable" language like C.

but there nave been a lot of clones made of elite or frontier, in all the years the most recent and (to me) best is pioneer, stick your head together with the developer maybe.

here the link to his site: http://pioneerspacesim.net/

and the thread on ssc: http://www.spacesimcentral.com/post7609.html#p7609

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Posted : July 4, 2010 01:38