Any 'Elite' fans in the house?

#1 son's just landed his first real, post uni, job with Frontier, their
creator.

*proud*

 

Who's creator?

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*arse*

*Whose* obviously.

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heh.

One of it's/its/its' cba to engage brain.

 

Frontier didn't create Elite - it was released by Acornsoft
originally.

 

Still don't understand who he's got a job with.

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*D'OH*

With it now. Should read the topic really.


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Saw a documentary on that t'other week - quite interesting, even
though I'd never heard of it. The efforts they'd go to to save a
couple of bytes of memory. Mind you, it (the program) really pissed me
off when they described their use of assembler as 'a new language'.
Yeah, right.

And although I know what a BBC a/b is, I've never seen one in the
flesh, that I'm aware of, let alone used one.
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Acornsoft didn't create anything either, they just published it. Elite
was co-written by David Braben, who apparently set up Frontier.

I'd be generous and allow half marks. If I actually cared, that is.

 

my mate used to have one - we spent hours and hours playing Elite on
it (and I spent a lot of time playing Frontier on the Amiga years
later).

The BBC micro was released by Acorn to go alongside their computer
literacy tv show in the early 80s ("making the most of the micro"
IIRC) It's original release name was the Acorn Proton (it was the
follow up to the Acorn Atom, one of which I had right at the start of
the 80s).

 

that's like saying no software house who contract out development work
to external people creates anything. And yes, I know that work had
started on the project before Acornsoft agreed to bankroll it.

yes, I know.

cheers.

 

Do I get the other half then? That's an A* isn't it?

 

Right on, Commander!

 

I was already working as a PL/1 programmer when these things (and the
spectrum et al.) started to emerge, so was both underwhelmed by, and
completely disinterested in, them at the time. Kids' toys was all they
were ever going to be, and I really couldn't see the point.

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Since it was the mother of all 'ifs', neither of you get anything.

 

I spent hundreds of hours playing Elite when I was a lad - to the
extent that I used to borrow a BBC from my school at the weekend and
take it home (I had an Electron at home, but Elite was shit on the
'leccy)

I never got in to Frontier - even though it was one of the first games
I bought for a PC. I think the move to Newtonian physics (away from
let's-pretend-there's-an-atmosphere-in-space physics) was a mistake.

 

Oh, I see - the *programme* pissed you off. I did wonder what the
program had done to upset you.

 

Mostly harmless.

 

Y'know, it's just this w/e that I dug out my Frontier CD and thought
about giving it a crack again.

It doesn't work on XP obv, so I've created a Vmware session with
Windows 98 on my Linux box. Now I'm trying to remember how himem.sys
and all the other memory drivers used to work, so that I can play the
bloody thing!

I wish they'd carried on with the development of the game though. Is
there anything similar today?

 

I think it's a bit more than that here, because IIRC Bell & Braben
retained the copyright and Acornsoft just did the distribution.

One of the two (I forget which and CBA to Google) has a web-site where
you can download most versions of Elite (and, I think, Frontier) for
nowt.

This includes the classic BBC, BBC+ and Master editions - if you've
got a suitable emulator.