Date : Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:42:25 +0100
From : James Gibbon <jg@...>
Subject: Re: Elite
David Gorst wrote:
>
> Fine - give it a whack ... ;-)
>
Somebody already did give it a whack, sometime in the mid '80s,
and it certainly didn't run in 32K! OK, you got colour and a
couple more missions (I think) but ISTR they had trouble
squeezing it into 512K
James
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: FARAZ CHOUDHRY [mailto:razzledazzler2@...]
> > Sent: 16 September 1999 16:39
> > To: dgorst@...
> > Cc: bbc-micro@...
> > Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] Elite
> >
> >
> > Don't forget SWR's. They give extra memory!! :-)
> >
> > F. H. Choudhry
> >
> > --- David Gorst <dgorst@...> wrote:
> > > More likely 32K - 10K to 20K screen memory - OS
> > > stuff - DFS stuff = not very
> > > much.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: FARAZ CHOUDHRY
> > > [mailto:razzledazzler2@...]
> > > > Sent: 16 September 1999 16:15
> > > > To: Ian Lane; BBC Mailing List
> > > > Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Elite
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I ain't joking man, don't underestimate what you
> > > can pack into 32K ort
> > > > 64K on a Beeb. This computer is no PC, Acorns
> > > have always had
> > > > different architectures to PC, anything that takes
> > > like 32K on a BBC
> > > > would take like 150-200K on an IBM PC 8086.
> > > >
> > > > F. H. Choudhry
> > > >
> > > > --- Ian Lane <ian.lane@...> wrote:
> > > > > I think Faraz was joking about converting any
> > > new
> > > > > version of Elite to the
> > > > > Beeb and playing Elite over the net on a BBC.
> > > > > At least, I hope he was...
> > > > >
> > > > > PS It was possible for the original Elite to be
> > > > > other than b&w - but it
> > > > > would have been black and yellow, or black and
> > > cyan,
> > > > > or black and green,
> > > > > or...
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
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