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Elite 40th Anniversary – Source code release
To commemorate this, I have added further sources (Apple, Atari, C64, NES, SNES (unfinished) "Elite"; and BBC "Elite II" (unfinished)) to the Elite Archive. BBC Elite II is my part of the inital attempt to better Elite on the 6502 processors.
Today, 20th September 2024, is the 40 th anniversary of the day the world first experienced Elite, the 3D space trading and combat game written by Ian Bell and David Braben, first on the BBC Microcomputer in conjunction with Acornsoft. David coded the split-screen for the BBC and it was entiely reliant on the 6522 PIT (Programmable Interrupt Timer). There was no accessible timer,let alone one capable of generating interrupts, The usual approach was to use sprite 0 to enter a busy wait for the appropriate VBLANK, but we couldn;t afford busy-waiting even for 8 scan lines.
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