Traveller-esque Computer Games

[KenHR]

Use the "J" key to start the in-system jump.

If you want to avoid being stopped every few minutes, aim your ship about 45 degrees upward for a while to get off the main traffic route.

There should be a .pdf with the installation that lists hotkeys.

The Elite Manual is also a big help.

 

[KenHR]

Use the "J" key to start the in-system jump.

If you want to avoid being stopped every few minutes, aim your ship about 45 degrees upward for a while to get off the main traffic route.

There should be a .pdf with the installation that lists hotkeys.

The Elite Manual is also a big help.

 

[jawillroy]

Wow.

Just played last night. So smooth! I remember it being much more jerky. (that blazing fast C=64...)

Some really nice touches.

Good fun.

Shame that My Lovely Wife needs the computer for, you know, work & stuff.

 

[jawillroy]

Wow.

Just played last night. So smooth! I remember it being much more jerky. (that blazing fast C=64...)

Some really nice touches.

Good fun.

Shame that My Lovely Wife needs the computer for, you know, work & stuff.

 

[KenHR]

Download the expansion packs...you haven't lived until you sail into the teeth of a pirate base on one of those asteroid hideouts! There are also a large number of new ships and skins.

Oolite ate two whole weekends out of my life, and continues to nibble away at certain days when it gets an appetite.

 

[KenHR]

Download the expansion packs...you haven't lived until you sail into the teeth of a pirate base on one of those asteroid hideouts! There are also a large number of new ships and skins.

Oolite ate two whole weekends out of my life, and continues to nibble away at certain days when it gets an appetite.

 

[aramis]

It's good at that.

The hacked apple II version of elite had a "double time" switch. Made those long trips of several jumps less annoying.

 

[aramis]

It's good at that.

The hacked apple II version of elite had a "double time" switch. Made those long trips of several jumps less annoying.

 

[KenHR]

Witchfire fuel injectors are a must to make the in-system trip bearable. Not only do they speed the trip, they can help you get away from that 15-ship pirate fleet that's out for blood. Save up your credits.

 

[KenHR]

Witchfire fuel injectors are a must to make the in-system trip bearable. Not only do they speed the trip, they can help you get away from that 15-ship pirate fleet that's out for blood. Save up your credits.

 

[Supplement Four]

Whatever happened to the Traveller computer game?

http://pc.ign.com/articles/066/066857p1.html

 

[Supplement Four]

Whatever happened to the Traveller computer game?

http://pc.ign.com/articles/066/066857p1.html

 

[JAFARR]

GO here. http://www.freelancetraveller.com./
Then Information Center/Computer Connection
You can find MT1 & 2 as well as some other nice Traveller utilities.

 

[JAFARR]

GO here. http://www.freelancetraveller.com./
Then Information Center/Computer Connection
You can find MT1 & 2 as well as some other nice Traveller utilities.

 

[KenHR]

I think WJP's link refers to a newer game.

Megatraveller was released in 1990, and Quest for the Ancients in 1991.

The link refers to a game being announced in 1999. Appears, like much else, to be vaporware.

 

[KenHR]

I think WJP's link refers to a newer game.

Megatraveller was released in 1990, and Quest for the Ancients in 1991.

The link refers to a game being announced in 1999. Appears, like much else, to be vaporware.

 

[Supplement Four]

Yep, I own MT1 and MT2. I bought them when they came out. The link I posted is for another, more modern, game--annouced sometime during the T4 era.

 

[Supplement Four]

Yep, I own MT1 and MT2. I bought them when they came out. The link I posted is for another, more modern, game--annouced sometime during the T4 era.

 

[JAFARR]

oolite update: I have been playing this game for a couple days now that I replayed Wasteland twice with the same characters. (Dex 15, Luck 20, and lockpick level 7 and still can't pick the locks in the waste pit.) I discovered that it has a neat wrinkle that Elite didn't IIRC. I don't have a joy stick and trying to dock with the keyboard was killing me 4 times out of 5. Then I discovered that I could sell my ship and buy a cheaper one and afford a docking computer well. But I still need a joystick so I can fight. Anybody have a recomendation for a cheap joystick?

 

[JAFARR]

oolite update: I have been playing this game for a couple days now that I replayed Wasteland twice with the same characters. (Dex 15, Luck 20, and lockpick level 7 and still can't pick the locks in the waste pit.) I discovered that it has a neat wrinkle that Elite didn't IIRC. I don't have a joy stick and trying to dock with the keyboard was killing me 4 times out of 5. Then I discovered that I could sell my ship and buy a cheaper one and afford a docking computer well. But I still need a joystick so I can fight. Anybody have a recomendation for a cheap joystick?