Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro

Re:Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro by scarybeast on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:06AM (#24613150)

These are some good hacks and tricks! The good news is that these fun days are still upon us. I'm a member of the Bitshifters collective: https://bitshifters.github.io/

For example, the most recent demo led by VectorEyes, called Evil Influences, breaks new ground in BBC Micro video chip chicanery: https://bitshifters.github.io/posts/prods/bs-evil-influences...

Direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvjhKY67fPI

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Re:Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro by jlokier on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:48AM (#24613349)

Very nice demos, thanks for pointing me there!

If only there had been an internet then, rather than just me with my books and a few years to spare :-) I guess most of us were like that at the time.

I see the 6845 still has surprises yet. Now you've made me read the Wikipedia article on it, and I learned something new, that it can be tricked into reloading the display address in the middle of a frame. If only I'd figured that out that back in the day, that would have been very handy!

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Re:Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro by raffraffraff on Monday September 28, 2020 @03:53AM (#24614106)

I wish there was an internet back then too, one that was fast, had a good search engine or directory ... and was only online for 2 hours a day for research purposes. A 24x7x365 internet would have gotten in the way of my tinkering which was mainly driven by boredom.

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Re:Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro by quickthrower2 on Monday September 28, 2020 @06:06PM (#24621734)

BBS? Available 2 hours a day otherwise your parents ground you with no computer access because of the phone bill :-).

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