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In the '80s, Elite was magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254763 - Nov 2021 (6 comments)

Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24611341 - Sept 2020 (125 comments)

A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353734 - July 2019 (106 comments)

Elite's crazy tokenized string routine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8950288 - Jan 2015 (17 comments)

Backroom Boys (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8904587 - Jan 2015 (2 comments)

The Making of Elite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7892462 - June 2014 (38 comments)

The making of Elite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6604478 - Oct 2013 (56 comments)

Elite: Dangerous will support Oculus Rift - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6526783 - Oct 2013 (16 comments)

Elite video game reboot hits funding target - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5001968 - Jan 2013 (43 comments)

Elite Dangerous - Mac Version Stretch Goal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4973367 - Dec 2012 (12 comments)

Elite: Dangerous - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4746646 - Nov 2012 (71 comments)

BBC interview with creator of Elite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2331701 - March 2011 (29 comments)



Hopefully ok to hang Ian Bell’s Elite pages off here:

http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/index.htm and

http://www.elitehomepage.org/archive/index.htm (file archive)

Bit of a time capsule, but some interesting curios in there.


And the infamous history of Ian Bell's website: http://www.ntk.net/1999/09/17/


Ah, Need To Know - I still occasionally wonder whatever happened to Dave Green …


This is an amazing talk by Braben where he goes into detail on many of the hacks that was necessary to make Elite possible. https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014628/Classic-Game-Postmorte...


Someone pls tell me hi is not chating ;)




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