Jaruzel wrote:
Braben has recently run round the Net shutting down all unoffical ports and 'clones' of Elite, so I really doubt that a port to OS4 wil ever happen. :-(
Braben is obsessed with money and IP ownership. He also has a seriously over-inflated opinion of the value of his own achievements.
One of the removed clones, Chris Pinder's "Elite - The New Kind" was excellent, and far more worthy of attention than Braben's own Frontier games, now released as
shareware depite the fact that Braben has made absolutely no effort whatsoever to make sure that these run properly on modern hardware.
I doubt very much that Elite 4 will ever be ported to OS4 or MorphOS unless Braben can make money out of it.
Personally, I sort of suspect that Elite 4 will go the way of the other Braben only efforts: much hype and not much gaming quality at the end of the line. Elite - which he did with Ian Bell - was great, but the Frontier games were not. His other games were technically good but lacked proper playablity too IMHO.
Fortunately there are still a number of Elite-like games out there, some commercial and some free, which Braben can't touch because they don't infringe his trademarks at all. Some are actually very good, though for some reason very few have a high profile.
IMHO, Braben is a petty man who was
partially responsible for
one great game. He's spent the last ten years living off past glories, and I doubt he has another good game in him.
Nice looking site BTW. :-)
