Date : Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:22:21 -0000
From : "M J Forbes" <mjforbes@...>
Subject: Master/Tube Elite
Hi all
Just been playing around with the 'Enhanced' version of Elite on BeebEm, and
have noticed that apart from the fact that it seems much faster (thanks
emulated co-pro!) than it did back in the day, there's a few points that I'm
querying.
Firstly, on the scanner at the bottom of the screen, different "objects"
appear in different colours. Can anyone point me to a point of reference as
to what the colours mean? It seems to me that red indicates an asteroid,
but I can't figure out what the others mean (if the colours actually denote
anything).
Also, looking through the manual, it seems that pressing "I" after arming a
missile would bring up a description of the target ship. Back in the old
days, I could never get this to work (I assumed that this was an "enhanced"
feature that wasn't available on the humble BBC B) - can anyone out there
confirm that this works, or was it something that Braben/Bell intended to
include, but was eventually overlooked.
Thanks for any help!
Matt
(x-sent to comp.sys.acorn.games and the bbc-micro mailing list)
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Just been playing around with the
‘Enhanced’
version of Elite on BeebEm, and have noticed that apart from the fact
that it
seems much faster (thanks emulated co-pro!) than it did back in the day,
there’s
a few points that I’m querying.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Firstly, on the scanner at the bottom of the screen,
different “objects” appear in different colours. Can
anyone
point me to a point of reference as to what the colours mean? It
seems to
me that red indicates an asteroid, but I can’t figure out what the
others
mean (if the colours actually denote
anything).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Also, looking through the manual, it seems that
pressing “I”
after arming a missile would bring up a description of the target ship.
Back
in the old days, I could never get this to work (I assumed that this was
an “enhanced”
feature that wasn’t available on the humble BBC B) – can
anyone out
there confirm that this works, or was it something that Braben/Bell
intended to
include, but was eventually overlooked.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks for any help!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>(x-sent to comp.sys.acorn.games and the bbc-micro
mailing
list)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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