Date   : Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:25:36 -0700 (PDT)
From   : Angus Duggan <angus@...>
Subject: Re: Master version of Elite.

Stuart William McConnachie writes:
>Colour display - Just the same as the BBC 6502 second processor version,
>with mode 1 for the vector graphics and mode 2 for the console.  The
>status of ships and objects (eg cargo, friendly, thargoid etc) is then
>shown on the viewer by using different coloured "sticks".

Also available on Elite-A for BBC B :-)

>Full selection of ships - The BBC B only loaded a small subset of the
>available ships each time you leave the space station.  This means that
>you don't see some of the ships very often, since they only occur one or
>twice in the 16 ship files (D.MOA - D.MOB).

I did something similar in Elite-A's second processor version too. I also
expanded the variation possible in the single processor case, by taking
galaxy into account.

>"front pulse laser sell back" bug (which gains you credits) was removed.
>There were probably some others too.  IIRC there was also a second BBC B
>release which fixed the above problems.

You remember correctly. I had that one, I based Elite-A on it. Elite-A
unfortunately doesn't run on a Master (because I never had a Master to code
on, it's probably a memory mapping problem). It's available through
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/ajcd/beeb/elite.html now.

a.
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