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Today is the 40th anniversary of #Acornsoft #Elite on the #BBCMicro. Happy birthday, Elite!

If you want to know how this seminal game works, you might enjoy my labour-of-love analysis at https://elite.bbcelite.com

And next week I'll be launching Elite 3D for the BBC Micro - don't forget your 3D specs...

#retroGaming #retroComputing

Here's the Elite scoreboard from a competition that we ran at the National Museum of Computing's Econet LAN Party. There are players in here from the UK, mainland Europe and North America, all competing live to see who can kill as many enemy ships as possible in the time limit.

There's a bit of testing going on in there too, hence the repeated names, but as a first proper test for the multiplayer scoreboard in Elite, this went pretty well!

#BBCMicro #retrogaming #retrocomputing #8bit #acornsoft #elite

Name an 8-bit game that triggers instant nostalgia. I'll start... 😁

#elite #retrocomputing #bbcmaster #bbcmicro #acornsoft

Wow, BBC Basic for the Mac, complete with 6502 assembler and emulator. Published in 1989 by Human-Computer Interaction Ltd, which is David Johnson-Davies, former head of AcornSoft. What an offering - and how did the licensing work out, I wonder - the BBC were very protective.

Download it here - also a video preview
https://www.macintoshrepository.org/32524-bbc-basic-for-the-macintosh

Announcement: Little Acorns from Big Macs in Acorn User
https://archive.org/details/AcornUser083-Jun89/page/n8/mode/1up

@mwichary

#retrocomputing #bbcbasic #acornsoft #macintosh #applemac

Today's #retrogaming on the #BBCMicro #Maze from #Acornsoft, I love a good #mazegame, and it's what I seem to remember most from the BBC #computer we had at school. I love the colour scheme of this game as well. #nostalgia