Date   : Wed, 29 Oct 2003 07:16:55 -0800
From   : Angus Duggan <angus.duggan@...>
Subject: Re: Elite

Pete Hatton writes:
>3. Tube Elite - Same as the disc version, except it was in colour, and had 
>a Star wars credits opening sequence.  It was also very fast, as the Beeb 
>did all the drawing, while the tube did all the geomemtry calculations.  
>It was rumoured that this version had the generation ships.

I'm pretty sure these were just rumours. Elite-A does have a Tube mode as
well (it auto-discovers on start-up), so if you have a tube or tube
emulation, you can use this. It should help with the "File not found"
problems, because the Tube code doesn't need to overlay the DFS workspace. As
with the original Tube version, the drawing is on the I/O processor, the
calculation on the Tube. I may have got the split between processors
sub-optimal, and the comms protocol between them isn't particularly
sophisticated either (it uses direct access to the Tube registers because the
normal protocols weren't adequate for the split screen mode).

a.