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The "Advanced User Guide" referred to several times in the comments is The Advanced User Guide for the BBC Micro by Bray, Dickens and Holmes, 1983, ISBN 0 94682
by leoc 2y ago
The "Advanced User Guide" referred to several times in the comments is The Advanced User Guide for the BBC Micro by Bray, Dickens and Holmes, 1983, ISBN 0 946827 00 1 . https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=17242 https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=17242 https://archive.org/details/bbc-micro-advanced-user-guide/ https://archive.org/details/bbc-micro-advanced-user-guide/ I can't find a source for this now, but IIRC Bell and Braben themselves used this when writing Elite. (I am not an expert.)
- MarkMoxon 2y agoThank you, that's a good point. The site started off with just the BBC Micro version, and I never expanded the book references to be clearer. Anyway, I have reworded every reference to books in the commentary so they now contain the full title and author list, so hopefully people will be able to find the relevant tomes. I've also linked to the books from my "useful links" page in a more prominent manner: https://elite.bbcelite.com/about_site/useful_links.html https://elite.bbcelite.com/about_site/useful_links.html I hope that helps!