I don’t see how Elite on the BBC Micro could have been written any other way. Today’s CS couldn’t have got the job done. Same with Manic Miner on the ZX Spectru

I don’t see how Elite on the BBC Micro could have been written any other way. Today’s CS couldn’t have got the job done. Same with Manic Miner on the ZX Spectrum. Both involved extremes of optimisation using assembly to totally max out the limited machines. I respect those two pieces of software as works of art a million times more than anything written in the past 20 years.