Solely only in the near past I used to be speaking to some associates concerning the unique David Braben’s 8-bit area fight buying and selling simulator of Elite, and the way we have seen a couple of fan primarily based remakes seem in addition to enhancements and ports to completely different 8bit methods. However this newest information could curiosity you, when you have an Atari XL/XE nonetheless, as reifsnyderb has launched a demo of a port to the Atari XL/XE. A model of the sport you’ll be able to see being performed within the footage under.
This is the newest from the developer in short with the complete particulars through the supply hyperlink under. “Many people have been teased with a latest non-optimized port of the tape model of Elite and one other porting venture with no sign of ending. In consequence, I obtained pissed off and determined to make it occur myself. Initially, I explored porting the tape model to the CC65. After over an hour of labor and research of the supply code I noticed that was a extremely dumb thought. It was then that I spent a short time reviewing the variations between the unique tape model and disk variations of Elite after which determined if I used to be going to port Elite to the Atari 8 bit laptop I ought to do the disk model because it has much more options.”
Options:
- 31 potential ships
- Enhanced AI and spawning
- Flashing cockpit indicators
- 3 ship colours in 3d scanner
- Coloured cross-hairs in area view
- 9 colours on cockpit show
- Correct docking laptop
- Ship hanger displayed after docking
- Flicker free ships and area stations
- Each area station varieties
- Planets have craters, meridians, and/or equators
- Optimizations have been made that embrace the usage of logarithm-based math routines
- Â …and lots of extra!
System Necessities:
- Â Atari 400 or 800 with at the least 48k of reminiscence and OS/B or
- Â Atari XL or XE with at the least 48k of reminiscence and an XL or XE OS.
- Â Joystick
- Â Floppy drive and / or a tool that may learn from and write to ATR pictures.
Hyperlinks :1) Supply
