September 2005

Almost a year on since I first started, the new remake of Elite is now available! It is still probably beta software - i.e. you may find some gameplay effecting problems - but is fully playable.

This new version, Elite AGB, is based on BBC Elite A and contains different player controlled ships, an online encyclopedia and special cargo. More details can be found on the Elite AGB page.

Sunday 17 July 2005

2 minor Elite fixes - enemy lasers were not drawn correctly and the "ship dots" were drawn too close.

Wednesday 22 June 2005

At last - a fix for the current Elite TNK GBA port. Well, a back-track to the working version plus some post version 1.4 bug fixes. I'm doing this as it looks like the new version will be a few weeks longer before it's up and running.

A big thanks must go to Thomas Metz for giving me a kick to get this done. Thomas has fixed some bugs and niggles based on the 1.4a release, which I've added to this latest version. Amongst other things, he's made it easier to become Elite ;-) and added a "rating gauge" so you can see how far you have got left to go, as well as making some visibility enhancements. Full details are in the readme.

Sunday 28 May 2005

I'm slowly trying to move my projects over to use DevkitARM, which is a more recent version of the GNU compiler targetted for the GBA. The first changed over was PocketBeeb, the latest is Lords Of Midnight. I've also added the sun to LoM, as seen in the Commodore 64 version.

Monday 11 April 2005

I'm still working on the fixes to Elite - more than fixes it is in fact a remake of a different version of Elite, which doesn't use any of the TNK code and plays closer still to the Beeb version! All that poring over 6502 code during the making of PocketBeeb came in handy. It has some nice extras that were in the original version, but I don't want to give too much away until it's closer to being finished. It's getting there... Just don't tell David Braben, OK? ;)

Wednesday 30 March 2005

Added the PocketBeeb source and TWO new versions. A proper update with sound improvements and a hacky update that runs Elite almost properly. Ish. See the emulation link there on the left.

Tuesday 01 February 2005

Another site reshuffle and this one is easier to maintain. Quite what heinous crimes against navigation Yahoo's dodgy ad-popup will commit this time is anyone's guess - its new trick being to add a needless horizontal scrollbar to every page - but there's no such thing as a good, free web host so we're stuck with it.

Thursday 14 October 2004

A major bug has been discovered in the port of Elite, making docking extremely difficult. I've replaced the download with v1.4a, which was the last version I had before the bug appeared and seems to work better.

I'm currently working on a new version that shall fix the problem and add some other stuff too. Sorry for the cock up, folks.