Date   : Wed, 09 Aug 2000 23:15:11 +0200
From   : "Mark de Weger" <mark.deweger@...>
Subject: Elite versions

Mark's discovered his joystick...

There's a number of versions of Elite going around. Some versions, among
which the original (at least presented as such on Ian Bell's web site) have
two strange bugs (features?).

- If you press F0 to launch, the game sometimes flashes briefly "bad
command" and refuses to launch. Repeatedly pressing F0 solves the problem.

- The joystick doesn't work.

I've only checked this on emulators, but BeebEm and PCBBC are consistent
(and at least BeebEm supports joysticks).

I happen to have another disk image with multiple versions of Elite
(including Master and second processor versions) and the BBC version on this
disk image does not show the problem.

Can anyone tell me the origin of these differences? Is one version an
original and another a bug-fix?

Mark happily goes on playing Elite with his joystick...

Thanx,
Mark.

PS. In the category of Tips You'll Probably Never Need But Get Anyway:
there's a slight bug in BBC Explorer which makes the conversion go wrong of
The Lord Of the Rings on TBL! from archive format to disk image. BBC
Explorer incorrectly converts the files FILE.1 and FILE.2 to 1.FILE and
2.FILE (should be: $.FILE.1 and $.FILE.2).