Talk:Frontier: Elite II

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An error and a suggestion

Just a couple of things that I'm not au fait enough to implement myself: In the music section the David Lowe linked to (of BBC News music fame) is not the same David Lowe who wrote the Frontier music. Also maybe a redirect from Elite 2, as that's what I initially searched for and this page didn't even appear on the search results. 86.3.199.59 16:34, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Those are done now.Miremare 18:25, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bugs

What is the point for the huge section on bugs in the article? Stating (with sources) that the game was buggy -- which it was -- is sufficient. The precise nature and details of every single major bug that plagued the game is unencyclopedic and, quite frankly, not of much interesting to anyone who would be researching the game. Xihr 22:52, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I've removed the bugs section completely and put the only notable one (due to it being the most famous one that references the development of the product) to a development section. ●BillPP ^{(talk|contribs)} 23:14, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's much better now. Xihr 23:45, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ive seen it crash a lot...

Release date

I've removed the release date and reference given as 31 December 1993 from the infobox as Frontier was definitely released earlier than that, at least in time for Christmas. Anyone know of a more reliable source? Miremare 16:00, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Official website says October 1993. ●BillPP ^{(talk|contribs)} 16:09, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On my version of the game, the files have early November 1993 dates. It may not be the original release though. 2fort5r (talk) 12:36, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Demo

I have the October 1993 demo which was released on magazine cover disks. Is there any interest in this? I don't see it available for download. 2fort5r (talk) 12:25, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've uploaded it here. It's the intro sequence to the main game (by Peter Irvin) but with some additional text at the end. 2fort5r (talk) 18:33, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Windows

I don't think a Windows version of this was released so I'm going to remove it from the Windows games category. 2fort5r (talk) 16:20, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there was no Windows version. Regarding the demo, it might be worth mentioning it in the article. I believe there was a cover mounted demo of the Amiga version too, though I can't remember which mag it was... Miremare 19:02, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The intro sequence article makes a brief mention of it. Very impressive at the time I remember. 2fort5r (talk) 18:33, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There wasn't :). Especially that in 1993 there were no games for Win at all ;)). There's of course DOSBox emulation as I've wrote in Polish article pl:Frontier: Elite II :). Sir Lothar (talk) 18:05, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I can only run it in DOSBox. Even before Windows it was a difficult game to run because of its high memory requirements. 2fort5r (talk) 18:33, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

elite 4

i guess it's a little hastily to put e4 in the elite series, since it is not known when and if it ever will be released at all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gernot66 (talk • contribs) 10:34, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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