r/atari8bit • u/barklefarfle • 27d ago

Elite ported to Atari 8-bit

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/393094-elite-for-the-atari-8-bit-firebird-version-has-been-completed-and-is-released/?fbclid=IwY2xjawUiaotleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBWJyaWQRMVdIVDJpdHozRGxCaG5SN2xzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeNbId5XmQVetHTSC07Ax07ORNtCoeueRqb1MfBxrC5-NX09dSVkPpEZmAs8M_aem_TCS3wRLWoEpOIDXyGvpASg
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u/jacek2023 27d ago

so it took just 45 years ;)

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u/notmyredditacct 27d ago

that sounds… Dangerous.. 

o7 i’ll show myself out now cmdrs

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u/Rementoire 26d ago

This is great. Have to try it out tonight. Why was it never ported btw? 

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u/arnstarr 26d ago

And in 48KB too! Well done.

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u/Desmaad 26d ago

The original ran in 32 KB.

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u/arnstarr 26d ago

Yes I am pleased the 48K machines were not overlooked.

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u/GraySmoke1960 27d ago

That's a lot of assembly code

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u/raymate 26d ago

Thats great.

For some reason I thought it was on Atari back in the day. Did we have any sort of clone. Or maybe it was in the ST.

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u/Important-Bed-48 26d ago

It was on the c64 and during a time in the late 80s when games that could be ported to the Atari 8bits often were hack jobs or didn't get done at all because of the c64s popularity and rampant piracy and a platform that still had a lot of 48kmachines and single sided floppies to cater too. It seems like we are getting those game we wished we had backthenn.

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u/raymate 26d ago

Forgot about the 48K crowd. I started on 600XL then 130XE

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u/Important-Bed-48 19d ago

I started on a 16k 400 then 32k then 48k (also had to add a real keyboard and a ctia to gtia upgrade) upgraded to a 130xe when those were on sale and I loved that computer until it's big brother (Amiga 500) came to round out my young adult years. Those (and others like the ST series) were the systems I grew up using before Windows, Mac and Linux took over.