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Elite on the BBC Micro as a child, awesome. Still the best game I ever tried to play. Used to play it two-handed with a cousin of the same age, we'd load up his
by eointierney 4y ago
Elite on the BBC Micro as a child, awesome. Still the best game I ever tried to play. Used to play it two-handed with a cousin of the same age, we'd load up his elder brother's saved game from cassette just to play with all the weapons. Now on emacs!
I remember his da, an engineer, talk abour ADA as a new-fangled thing, with Basic being deprecated as childish, in a good way
- foruhar 4y agoI played way too much Elite on the BBC micro (vs studying). As a kid learinging to program I thought Braben and Bell were gods. It blew my mind that my 6502 computer could manifest the experience that was Elite. Braben went on to write Zarch/Virus that blew my teenage mind on the Acorn Archimedes A3000 which was the first ARM CPU that most people could actually get their hands on. Decades later Braben was one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi foundation with cheap as chips (when in stock) computers built around an ARM CPU.