Elite - A Game Using Less Memory Than Most Emails!

Scot

Yes you memory guzzling, picture perfect graphic whores. ‘Elite’ was the game we played back in the day, and it ran on less memory than an modern email!

So when the devs in your MMO say its too complex to fit in, will take up too much memory etc. Tell them to go and check out how a Universe was created by David Braben and Ian Bell to run on 22K memory. That’s right 22K!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8261272.stm

alakram

Originally posted by Scot


Yes you memory guzzling, picture perfect graphic whores. ‘Elite’ was the game we played back in the day, and it ran on less memory than an modern email!
So when the devs in your MMO say its too complex to fit in, will take up too much memory etc. Tell them to go and check out how a Universe was created by David Braben and Ian Bell to run on 22K memory. That’s right 22K!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8261272.stm

He he, im sure most members here dont even know whats a kilobyte.

I remember I played this one, was really fun.

HYPERI0N

Yea this brings back memories. Those were the days when games were generally very imaginative making the most of limited resources.

Jackcolt

Funny thing... the first open world space combat sims... yet it par far has the most features of any combat space sim(not counting the sequels ofc)

cukimunga

yeah that seems about right for that time and for the graphics.   The thing is now days graphics are getting so complex that it has to take up a ton of memory and to have a huge open world and amazing graphics just can't happen yet. Just compare 2 games that are out right now.

AOC one of if not the best graphics out there for a MMO. The game is very instanced and not many huge open zones. Fallen Earth not the best graphics for a game that just released today but the game right now is 1000 square kilometers and it has no zones. Devs can pull things off they just either have to sacrifice graphics or the huge open world.

Oh yeah I forgot about EVE which is an amazingly huge game and has great graphics as well. So yeah space games in theory take up less because they don't need to render as much.

jimmy123

I dread to think how many  hours i spent trying to manualy dock my ship in a space station, before i could save up for a atomatic docking.

I loved that game, happy memories. 

inmysights

I remember this one, was great, was an open box in one of the old stores I use to goto and somehow it ended i my pocket, no clue how!

Draccan

The game was awesome! A real epic.

But o my God it was PAINFUL to dock the flights !!