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The Acorn Archimedes version of Elite was excellent. It was essentially a clone of the original BBC elite, but with superior graphics and AI. The archimedes ve
by JetSetWilly 13y ago
The Acorn Archimedes version of Elite was excellent. It was essentially a clone of the original BBC elite, but with superior graphics and AI.
The archimedes version even had a 6502 emulator built in so that the original procedural generation routines could be directly run on the acorn, to produce the exact same universe. Very impressive for the time.
- Theodores 13y agoI don't know how I missed that! I think I missed out though! There was some hardware genius in the original Archimedes and there was this game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarch Written by Braben - of all people!