Release #001 - Elite Advanced

 

Screenshots - Modifications - Restrictions and Prerequisites - Download - Save Game Conversion

 

 

Screenshots (top)

 

 

 

Modifications (top)


New ship: Warrior MkIV !
Big and fast battle ship. Transports Gold ! Has many rockets and it's hard to defeat...
Bounty: 30.0, Points: 150

New Ship: Colubrid II
Middle class ship. Transports narcotics !
Bounty: 20.0, Points: 100


New Equipment: Climatech Universal Laser Cooler
Costs: 6500 cr
Available on techlevel 6
Cools your laser so it doesn't overheat. Take care: activated cooler decrements your energy !
Activate/deactivate with key 'O'.

New Equipment: M2031A3 Heavy Military Laser
Costs: 9500 cr
Available on techlevel 12
Double efficiency as the normal military laser.

Some visual adjustments
e.g. Planet colours in space now fit to colours in local navigation chart, etc.

Equipment is now splitted into two pages if more then 15 equipments are available


Rating point table halved. So you reach the E-L-I-T-E status and the missions earlier.


Harddisk installable and Workbench startable (just copy the two files to your hd)


Return to the OS via "Exit" in the "Options"


AGA fixed

 

Changes in v1.2
NEW: statistics page implemented (options)
NEW: trainer implemented (options)
NEW: colours of stars changed
NEW: delay for galatic hyperjump changed from 30 to 10 seconds

NEW: the library (options) is now "built-in"

NEW: WHDLoad slave available
FIX: bug of original version fixed: stars in right/left view have moved up/down the wrong way
FIX: "ADV" logo in main menu is smaller now (e.g. problems in galactic chart)

 

 

Restrictions & Prerequisites (top)


Based upon the CAPS release of Elite 2.0


You need at least 1MB of Memory (512KB Chip)


Tested on A500(1.3) and A1200 HD


Don't use old game save files from the original game!


CAUTION: Exiting to the OS is ok for me but maybe could cause crashs etc. So close all programs before starting it or use the WHDLoad slave !


You don't need the original Elite 2.0 Disk for the library anymore !

 

 

Download (top)

 

Elite Advanced v1.2 (CARE patch file)

UnpatchElite (unpatch batch file for x86 dos)

Note: ipf file name must be 'Elite.ipf' from CAPS release 811

 

Get the WHDLoad slave from here

 

 

Save Game Conversion (top)

 

This describes how to convert the game save disk of Elite Advanced to the WHDLoad game save file 

 

- download TrackDOS.lha, extract it to a workbench reachable directory
- call TrackDOS via workbench, choose "Trackdisk to DOS"
- enter these values: "11264", "5632", "dh0:EliteAdvancedSaveOrg", "df0:"
- insert your Elite Advanced save disk, press ok, exit when done
- download the small utility Conv, copy it to the directory where you saved the file "EliteAdvancedSaveOrg", e.g. dh0:
- execute Conv in the Shell in this directory
- copy "EliteAdvancedSaveNew" to your Elite Advanced WHDLoad directory with the name "EliteAdvancedSave"

now you're ready to go...