LeftistLawyer, to KindActions
@LeftistLawyer@kolektiva.social avatar

It’s not strange.

It’s #MutualAid flowing naturally from what is essentially the world first #class free #anarchist platform.

It’s only seems strange because we’re so accustomed to screaming into the wind at the #elite who are the object of the #corporate platforms’ attention #economy.

Left to our own devices, it’s a no brainer that we help one another weather the insanity the elite daily thrust upon on all of us.

Full disclosure @codinghorror

upmultimedia, to elite
@upmultimedia@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

A pretty kind review of Liberation! Especially considering the initial release version had a few bugs.

"The game that finally answers the question: What if Elite and Blake’s 7 had a baby?"

https://www.digitallydownloaded.net/2023/11/review-liberation-pc.html

yawning_angel, to elite

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

upmultimedia, to retrogaming
@upmultimedia@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

Elite is 40 years old... the main design inspiration for my game Liberation.

I love that Elite has a great archival scene around its source code (once again the Brits are way ahead)

The aesthetic value of code is a massive ignored philosophy and this scene is a world leader.

Is code art? Code for the sake of code can be art but most code is for a purpose and so is "only" a craft imo.

But some code DOES belong in a museum or gallery!

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/elite_game_retro/

upmultimedia,
@upmultimedia@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

Still a gorgeous looking game!

Image from the Elite source code documentation project: https://www.bbcelite.com/

gimulnautti, to elite
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green avatar

Bell & Braben’s original Elite. It’s an amazing piece of work. Both by game design and code. 22 kilobytes.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/elite_game_retro/

TheByteAttic, to elite
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markmoxon, to retrocomputing

Ooh, I'm in The Register, talking about Elite:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/elite_game_retro/

Can't believe I'm in the same interview as Ian Bell. Achievement unlocked!

ianRobinson, to elite
@ianRobinson@mastodon.social avatar

I want to play the original Elite game again almost from scratch. Almost in that I want to start with a Docking Computer installed.

I got to Elite status twice. Once on ZX Spectrum and then on Atari ST (I think).

Right on Commander!

What’s the best way to play it in 2024? An emulator on an Apple Silicon Mac? Can you get a USB joystick that’s a clone of the one button and simple stick Atari one that would work on an Apple Silicon Mac?

I have Elite Dangerous on PS4. I don’t like it.

markmoxon, to retrocomputing

Angus Duggan's Elite-A is a masterpiece of hacking, taking the original BBC Micro version of Elite and extending it with more ship designs, the ability to buy and sell different ships, delivery missions, an encyclopedia and lots more. It is legendary, and quite right too.

But Elite-A was only released for the BBC Micro, and it simply hangs if you try it on a BBC Master.

Until now, that is!

Elite-A contains a bunch of not-quite-finished code that tries to make it work on the Master, so I've extended and debugged this until, finally, it's working. Elite-A's version for the 6502 Second Processor also now works on the BBC Master's internal co-pro, for maximum luxury.

And it’s also available in a version with flicker-free ships, which looks really slick.

For more details and download links, see this Stardot thread:

https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28376

Enjoy!

zebibyte, to NYGiants
@zebibyte@mas.to avatar

Speaking of Eli Manning, Toyota Tundra has an Eli 1794 Edition??! I ain’t into trucks but if I get money I’ll buy one in blue of course. 😂 @nfl

roibattey,
massivelyop, to elite
@massivelyop@mastodon.social avatar

Elite Dangerous player summarizes the playable Thargoid War content added throughout 2023
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/09/elite-dangerous-player-summarizes-the-playable-thargoid-war-content-added-throughout-2023

mcchessers, to zxspectrum
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Le_bottin_des_jeux_linux, to linuxgaming
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peter, to retrogaming
@peter@area51.social avatar

Just found this video about Elite.

It's not a this is what Elite is type of video but goes though how some of it's features were implemented and it's effect on the UK games industry when it first came out 39 years ago (yeah, 20 September 1984)

Be aware, it's an hour long!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC4YLMLar5I

PixelBandits, to EliteDangerous
@PixelBandits@nerdculture.de avatar

Somehow, after eight years, is still our most-played title of the year.

Our GOTY coming a close second and the incredible (and still improving) up in third.

What a year it has been for gaming. Same again in 2024, please <3

markmoxon, to retrocomputing

New Elite deep dive (11 of 25)

Even with a whopping 128K of ROM to play with, NES Elite has to compress all those beautiful bitmap images to fit them in. Here's how it's done.

https://www.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/image_and_data_compression.html

profoundlynerdy,
@profoundlynerdy@bitbang.social avatar

@markmoxon

I suspect @kroc would love to read the article you shared.

He has a fantastic project called harmless. He has been slowly optimizing the hell out of the version of the game.

https://github.com/Kroc/elite-harmless

markboulton, to elite

Going to a retro arcade bar with the team for an end of your thank you. It's becoming clear that their idea of retro is very different to my own.



breton, to France French
@breton@eldritch.cafe avatar

Sihame Assbague (le 28 nov. 2023 sur X) :

"Le lycée Averroès, l’un des plus anciens lycées musulmans de France & le 1er à avoir obtenu un contrat avec l’État, va perdre ses financements publics. Pourquoi ? Des motifs fallacieux, comme d’hab. L’État poursuit sa persécution & son démantèlement du tissu associatif musulman.
Il y a très peu d’établissements scolaires musulmans en France (une trentaine). Parmi ces établissements, seuls 3 sont sous contrat avec l’État. Le lycée Averroès [est] l’un d’eux.
Et contrairement aux autres établissements confessionnels, ils sont mis sous pression constante.
En interdisant le voile & en criminalisant constamment certains élèves, l’État les pousse en dehors du système de l’Éducation nationale. Les rares établissements musulmans apparaissent alors comme des alternatives… mais là encore, l’État criminalise et persécute.

Sur la répression des établissements scolaires musulmans, 2 articles à lire :

  1. Le chemin de croix des écoles musulmanes | sur Streetpress
    https://streetpress.com/sujet/1426246444-colleges-ecoles-musulmanes-france

  2. Islamophobie, la bataille du Nord | une enquête signée Widad Ketfi
    https://lemediatv.fr/articles/2023/islamophobie-la-bataille-du-nord-IPpJzJk8QrKRd6dkU-A73g

breton,
@breton@eldritch.cafe avatar

"La très élitiste école privée, catholique, et parisienne Stanislas accueille les enfants de la nouvelle ministre de l'Éducation nationale Elle est surtout l'objet d'un rapport d'inspection de l'éducation nationale après des accusations, entre autres, de propos homophobes tenus dans l'enceinte de l'établissement. Le rapport avait été commandé par l'ancien ministre Pap N'Diaye en février dernier, fini de rédiger en août, il n'a pas été rendu public à sa sortie, ni pas son successeur Gabriel Attal, ni par Amélie Oudéa-Castéra."

des témoignages d'anciens élèves de , qui confirment les grande lignes du rapport :
Ondine se remémore ses cours de religion :
"On nous expliquait que c'était mal d'aider la victime d'un viol en l'aidant à avorter de son enfant.
Moi, je suis née de parents non-mariés. On m'a expliqué que donc j'étais issue d'un péché, que je n'aurais jamais dû naitre."
Thomas :
"J'ai passé cinq ans là-bas. Des cas d'homophobie, j'en ai vu mais des dizaines."
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/journal-de-7-h/journal-de-7h-du-jeudi-18-janvier-2024-1252403

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