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Brynster
December 21st, 2005, 07:12 AM
... Or a way to run Elite in wine.

I have tried to run Elite in wine using the command line wine elite.exe

After a few seconds i get a message asking me to select a sound device 3 option no matter which option i pick it just hangs. SO i was wondering if.

A. Preferred option
Anybody can assist me getting the original to run under Wine

B. Alternative
Anybody know of an Elite clone that works in Linux

23meg
December 21st, 2005, 07:15 AM
If you have a copy of the Amiga version, you may want to try running that via UAE.

Brynster
December 21st, 2005, 07:47 AM
I only have a very old Elite Plus for PC :-(

You could at one point download them from one the authors website, but due to continued arguing between him and the other author they had to pull the download links.

Artificial Intelligence
December 21st, 2005, 07:51 AM
oolite is an elite clone: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Oolite

You may also try Vega Strike: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Vega_Strike

Edit: If you want a MMORPG as an Elite check: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Vendetta-online