nes-elite-beebasm VS oolite

One of the books was an entire annotated disassembly of the BASIC interpreter, if memory serves. I vaguely remember there being some sort of kerfuffle about that.

Another thing that one got: a printed circuit diagram of the machine.

As for today: One can get get an entire annotated disassembly for Elite, including the version that used the Second Processor: https://www.bbcelite.com

Alas, the NTSC version doesn't actually work on NTSC consoles. The NMI timings have been changed to work with some (but not all) emulators in NTSC mode, but it isn't a full NTSC conversion, it's an NTSC emulation (at least, that's what the authors call it in that version's scroll text).

There's a full list of differences between the PAL and NTSC versions here:

https://github.com/markmoxon/nes-elite-beebasm/tree/main#dif...

The main oolite repository is [1] and the repository for the launcher is [2]. Everything, including art assets and configuration files, is under the GNU GPL 2-or-later [3]. You can alternatively use the art assets and config files under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License version 3.0, a proprietary license.

[1] https://github.com/OoliteProject/oolite

[2] https://github.com/HiranChaudhuri/OoliteStarter

[3] https://github.com/OoliteProject/oolite/blob/master/Doc/LICE...

Might look at Oolite for a free lower spec alternative to Elite, if that's your jam. Plenty of mods to work with as well.

If you liked Elite, you should check out Oolite [1] too. FOSS, lots of mods.

[1] http://www.oolite.org/

I was surprised, when I started recording videos for Oolite, by how many people were desperate for Oolite videos.

Many, many hours playing this one to death. And the C64 version before it, and the BBC versions (tape and disk) at my friends houses. And Oolite on the Mac. And I'm a founder backer of Elite Dangerous. And...and...

In addition to the other great recommendations on here, Oolite might also be worth a try. It's free and has tons of expansions modify your experience.

Hmm, I guess that's one way to look at it. ED is all about the freedom of choice, after all. Though I still think OP's idea is interesting. Before playing ED, I've been playing Oolite for some time, and you can actually jump into the wakes left by the ships. So, to see this (or similar) mechanic in ED would be interesting.

link to game

Strong nostalgia whenever I see the BBC Elite opening screen!

These days we can re-live it easily in the browser: https://bbc.godbolt.org/?autoboot&disc=sth%3AAcornsoft%2FEli... Although I can also recommend "oolite": http://www.oolite.org/ which is an open source modernised elite with game play kept quite faithful to the original (I'm currently hooked on this and wasting more my life trying to get that "Elite" rating all over again)