Oolite: Elite Clone for Mac OSX...

[aramis]

Knowing how many of us LOVED Elite... when I encountered this, I was skeptical... but it really feels like a color version of elite... some transparency issues, but planets are colored solids, as are stations, and it's got configurable (via plug in) controls.

Currently mac only, but windows and linux ports are probable, and it's open source, but no commercial/shareware releases permitted.
from the Oolinte BB:

Download (18.7Mb) from any of these links:

http://www.digitalnervouswreck.com/oolite/oolite.dmg
http://homepage.mac.com/aegidian/download/oolite.dmg
http://aegidian.spymac.net/download/oolite.dmg

A 'lite' version (8.3Mb with midi music instead of mp3) can be downloaded from:

http://www.digitalnervouswreck.com/oolite/oolite_lite.zip
http://aegidian.spymac.net/download/oolite_lite.zip
http://homepage.mac.com/aegidian/download/oolite_lite.zip

 

[Elliot]

And just to remind people, you can get original elites at this address:

http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/game.htm

 

[aramis]

and the shareware versions of the sequels (Frontier) for their original platform (MSDos and Amiga) are at:

http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/download/