Retro computer people, you might be interested in these PeerTube playlists:
ACORN BBC, ELECTRON, ARCHIMEDES
https://fedi.video/w/p/m6ptC81c7dWqt9Skc4hHPb
AMSTRAD CPC
https://fedi.video/w/p/ciiLuybi7qkWyzWy38vTrD
MSX
https://fedi.video/w/p/pfLJRRyNFjbGPhcG6AFdZX
It's done! I have just released the Compendium version of #Elite for the #Acorn #Electron.
This massively enhanced version of the original game contains pretty much every feature of #BBCMicro Elite, but on the Electron. Just add 16K of sideways RAM.
Here are the links:
* Play in your browser: https://0xc0de6502.github.io/electroniq/?dfs&autoboot&ram6&disk0=https://elite.bbcelite.com/versions/elite_compendium/elite-compendium-acorn-electron.ssd
* More info about the Electron version: https://elite.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite_compendium_acorn_electron.html
* Download links: https://elite.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite_compendium_downloads.html
* All about the Compendium: https://elite.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite_compendium.html
Right on, Commanders!
Important testing.
I'm pretty happy with how this cleaned up. Could do with a final going over (especially the keys when my key puller turns up with my other stuff) but a big improvement on how it arrived 
Mistodon: Have you ever thought so hard that you warped the fabric of reality? This #BBCMicro high resolution screen was drawn by @pixelblip It was included in last year's science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection.
Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!
(In enhanced Acorn Electron Elite, that is.)
Video 1: The sun at Diso in Electron Elite
The speed isn't bad, considering the sun is probably the most screen-memory-intensive (i.e. slow) feature of BBC Micro Elite.
Video 2: Approaching the sun through a minor asteroid belt.
I've always loved flying towards the sun in BBC Micro Elite, so it's good to see it on the Electron. That ball of flickering fire hanging in the blackness of space always has such a feeling of remoteness and grandeur.
Video 3: Fuel scoops
I've also implemented fuel scooping, so those fuel scoops can finally be used for... well, scooping fuel, and not just cargo canisters. Don't leave home without them!
Here's a video of the latest features in enhanced #Acorn #Electron #Elite:
* Proper disk access menu
* Military lasers
* Extended system descriptions (edible poets!)
* System search
* Planetary details (meridians/equators and craters)
* Fast, flicker-free graphics
It's looking good!
Enhanced Electron Elite is for the Acorn Electron with 16K sideways RAM. It uses the SRAM to speed things up, and I'm backporting faster code from the #BBCMicro and #C64 versions too.
The plan is to add as many cool features as I can: on the list are suns, lots of ship blueprints, Thargoids, a proper docking computer and more.
Showing the Elk some well-deserved love! Watch this space...
TIL that BBC BASIC prints strings to file backwards
wherein I tell the story of Dave Carlos, teacher turned writer turned marketer, and his early obscure text adventure
which is heavily based on an earlier, equally obscure game, plus it is written in second person and third person simultaneously
Running BBC BASIC for ARM on a BBC Micro equipped with a PiTubeDirect and Raspberry Pi Zero is almost 5000× faster than on the original 2 MHz 6502
(these are real beeb screenshots, taken using RGBtoHDMI)
I have added flicker-free planets to the #Apple II version of #Elite.
Flicker-free on the left, original version on the right.
That's every 6502 version done now. No-one left behind!
Info and downloads: https://elite.bbcelite.com/hacks/flicker-free_elite.html
All the Adventures reaches the finale of Countdown to Doom, with one of the most clever puzzles in the game. Plus, I analyze why this game violates so many game design rules yet plays fair anyway.
With this I'm done with 1982 in my chronology and can move on to 1983.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/13/countdown-to-doom-skyward/
next on All the Adventures, Dune sandworms and multiple time travel puzzles
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/12/countdown-to-doom-tempus-fugit-retro/
