Elite 40th Anniversary – Source code release

55 pointsposted 6 hours ago
by ndiddy

7 Comments

dbrueck

5 hours ago

A lot of happy memories playing this game on a knockoff Apple II+.

To this day it's still impressive to me that they got 3D wireframe rendering (with hidden line removal!!) working on a 1 Mhz 6502 chip - that thing doesn't even have multiply and divide instructions.

outofpaper

5 hours ago

And the NES version is bonkers, using sprites to render the vector graphics.

Cadwhisker

3 hours ago

One interesting newly released file contains the sources to the unreleased Elite 2 prototype.

b8000083.zip [40yr] 657 K Bell BBC Elite 2 sources (disk images)

juunpp

an hour ago

That web design is the truly elite thing.

HideousKojima

5 hours ago

What license are these released under? The page doesn't seem to say

parlortricks

5 hours ago

Oh excited to see the NES and unfinished SNES code. This will help my learning.

user

5 hours ago

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