You can use Chris Lam's Horizon emulator; this does flicker somewhat at the split-screen mode change.
Click here to download BBC Elite [disk image] (52 Kbytes)
Click here to download BBC Elite [Horizon files - PC] (71 Kbytes)
Click here to download BBC Elite [Horizon files - Mac] (101 Kbytes)
The file ELITE should be *RUN rather than CHAINed.
You can now emulate the Master 128 and 2nd Processor versions of BBC Elite using Stuart McConnachie's PC BBC emulator.
Click here to download Master 128 & "Executive" 2ndPro Elites [disk image] (126 Kbytes)
Also available here is
Angus Duggan's Elite A,
a comprehensive enhancement of BBC Elite. He created this by disassembling the
object code and then reprograming the resultant source. A significant achievement
for which respect is due.
This fails to emulate on Horizon but can be emulated by
Dave Devenport's
BeebInC emulator
Expand the zip file into the same directory as BBC.EXE and then within that
directory type
BBC -sb -scanlines -exact
*ELITE
Click here to download BBC Elite A [BeebInC Files] (163 Kbytes)
Click here to download BBC Cassette Elite sources [disk image] (120 Kbytes) The disk images are of double-sided 80-track BBC disks
containing what I believe to be the final sources for the
Cassette and 2ndPro versions of BBC Micro Elite published by and copyright Acornsoft
1984 and 1985, together with some raw binary data.
Note that the program HIBASIC has been removed from the
2ndPro sources disk. BBC Disk Elite is not included here. This
was a combination of two programs, one loaded while docked, the
other while in space. All the extra functionality of Disk Elite
is included in the 2ndPro version.
Click here to download Elite ship sources [disk image] (38 Kbytes) David Braben wrote the original Elite ship plot routines on an Acorn Atom and i believe
designed his ships on graph paper before entering the object data directly into a hex editor.
I created my ships with BBC BASIC programs and the sources for my BBC Disk Elite ships
may be found on this disk image. The Cougar can be found as the "Cat"
on the BBC Elite 2 ship sources disk.
This release substantiates my
FAQ.
Once a ship file is created you can use
*VIEW <name>
to display and rotate it.
I recommend loading these BBC disk images into a disk-image based BBC Micro emulation program
such as
PC BBC or
Mike Wyatt's BeebEm
to access them via BBC BASIC.
If anybody produces any analysis or representation of these sources, please let me
know so i can host or link to it here.
Sources:
Click here to download BBC Cassette Elite sources [key text files] (32 Kbytes)
Click here to download BBC 2nd Processor Elite sources [disk image] (142 Kbytes)
The BBC Elite sources were initially crammed onto a single sided
40-track disk (100K of data!) and comments and whitespace tended to
suffer accordingly. The sources are extremely compact and terse.
Some of the routines were developed on an Acorn
Atom, hence the preponderance of variable names of the form
[letter pair][number].
Click here to download BBC Elite 2 ship sources [disk image] (15 Kbytes)