Re: [CM] 40 years since Elite game was released (22 kB)

immibis <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Jan 2024 22:00:08 +0100
Newsgroups alt.fan.elite
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/19/24 02:16, Retrograde wrote:
>  From the «still pure awesomeness» department:
> Feed: The Register
> Title: 40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes
> Author: Iain Thomson
> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 04:30:06 -0500
> Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/elite_game_retro/
> 
> The Reg talks to co-creator Ian Bell and coder Mark Moxon about what's under the
> cobra's hood
> 
> Retro Tech Week In 1984 the launch of a computer game was reported on British
> national news. The purported reason? The news editor apparently walked in after
> lunch and found all the staff were playing it.…
> 

See also: .kkrieger implements a first-person shooter with 3D graphics 
in 96kB of binary code.