Indie Retro News: Elite - David Braben's 8bit space combat trading simulator of Elite gets an Atari XL/XE port demo by reifsnyderb

Solely only in the near past I used to be speaking to a couple pals in regards to the authentic David Braben’s 8-bit house fight buying and selling simulator of Elite, and the way we have seen a couple of fan primarily based remakes seem in addition to enhancements and ports to completely different 8bit programs. However this newest information might curiosity you, in case you have an Atari XL/XE nonetheless, as reifsnyderb has launched a demo of a port to the Atari XL/XE. A model of the sport you’ll be able to see being performed within the footage under.

Here is the most recent from the developer in short with the complete particulars by way of the supply hyperlink under. “Many people have been teased with a latest non-optimized port of the tape model of Elite and one other porting challenge endlessly. Consequently, I bought annoyed and determined to make it occur myself. Initially, I explored porting the tape model to the CC65. After over an hour of labor and research of the supply code I noticed that was a extremely dumb concept. It was then that I spent a short while reviewing the variations between the unique tape model and disk variations of Elite after which determined if I used to be going to port Elite to the Atari 8 bit pc I ought to do the disk model because it has much more options.”

Options:

31 attainable ships
Enhanced AI and spawning
Flashing cockpit indicators
3 ship colours in 3d scanner
Coloured cross-hairs in house view
9 colours on cockpit show
Correct docking pc
Ship hanger displayed after docking
Flicker free ships and house stations
Each house station sorts
Planets have craters, meridians, and/or equators
Optimizations have been made that embrace the usage of logarithm-based math routines
…and plenty of extra!