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		Tepix on Sept 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC ... Elite was written by Ian Bell and David Braben. Ian Bell has a homepage with nice old Elite stuff free to download at http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/ A chap called Christian Pinder reverse engineered the BBC version of Elite (written in Assembly) and faithfully reimplemented it as documented C code. It was called "Elite: The New Kind" and was even ported to IRIX! Unfortunately he was then contacted by David Braben and asked to no longer spread this version.

Tepix on Sept 28, 2020 | [–]

Looks like the documented C code is at https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/vlHMKIzr5g1ISSpQhIKDzWGc/

aebtebeten on Sept 28, 2020 | [–]

TIL about the pagoshamanic reclamation of divine colour.

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