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Re:Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video] by PlunderBunny on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @01:53PM (#38712201)
Re:docking, if you went far away from the station, then kept it aligned in your crosshairs as you approached, you would be perpendicular to the front face of the station. Once I figured that out I could dock every time. I don’t think you needed to match the rotation of the station at all (at-least, not in BBC micro disk Elite).
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Re:Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video] by airblade on Thursday December 21, 2023 @03:46AM (#38718292)
That was probably it: not being quite perpendicular. Oh well!
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