Re: Hello
Pierre <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.fan.elite |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Sebastian Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there! This is my first time ever using one of these systems. It > seems quite cool. I just learned about Elite earlier today. I've never > heard of a Newsgroup before, this took quite a lot of setup, haha! It > is cool to be on a message board like those I had heard of from the past. > (I hope I don't make anyone feel too old...) My favorite text editor is > Vim, so that is what I will be editing on. > It took awhile to learn how to get everything set > up through slrn and eternal-september, but it was fun! Hello Sebastian, Welcome to the world of Elite. It is very quiet around here now, there were once many Commanders on Usenet but they have long since moved on. If you are a GNU/Linux user (since you are using slrn and vim you probably are) your distro will likely have a BBC Micro Computer, Commodore 64, or ZX Spectrum emulator which will let you run one of the many 8-bit versions of Elite. If your distro has an Amiga emulator you can run Elite and the follow up Frontier: Elite II. Safe travels through hyperspace Commander. Pierre