User:JazHaz
About JazHaz
JazHaz is me, James Haslam.
It's a nick that started as a nickname of Jaz when I was in school in the early 1980's, and it was a logical extension to add the Haz part from my surname.
Classic Elite experience
I started playing Elite at school soon after it was released in 1984. At the time the BBC Micros were everywhere in schools, and everyone I knew played BBC games such as Chuckie Egg (a great platform game), Revs (a Formula Three racing sim) and Elite. In fact somewhere I still have a 5 1/4" floppy disc with Elite on it (doubt it would load now though).
I remember that I made it to Deadly on the BBC version. I had a Spectrum at home, and one of the games that I had to have was again Elite, but it wasn't as good as on the BBC, as the Spectrum just wasn't as powerful as the BBC and the rubber keyboard just made dogfighting more difficult. However again I made it to Deadly on the Spectrum version.
Later Elites
In 1986 I bought an Atari ST, and also bought Elite for that machine, and later still Frontier: Elite 2. In 1998 I upgraded with the 32-bit Atari Falcon030, which is broadly compatible with the ST. Frontier runs even better with this machine.
Today & Oolite
Have had several Windoze PC's since 2003. Currently use a Vista laptop, which is not shader compatible :( or particularly fast, but still Oolite runs ok.
On Oolite, I used to fly a Griff Boa Class Cruiser, and I was in Galaxy 7 doing Assassins' Guild missions. I had also just reached the big milestone of Deadly. Unfortunately, due to my Vista laptop exploding in my hyperspace tunnel, that save is temporarily lost in Witchspace!
Unless I can get my laptop fixed (one day), for now I am using an even slower Samsung netbook, running XP, and have started a new commander, currently flying a Griff Cobra Mk.III, and have reached the level of Competent. I have also lost access to the password for the JazHaz wiki account, so Selezen has kindly set up a temporary Jaz account.
Links
My Public Profiles: My New HomePages / FlickR Profile
