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cptnapalm·Dec 20, 2023

There was a "remake" in C of Elite called Elite: The New Kind. The source is on github (https://github.com/fesh0r/newkind). There is a funny, albeit showstopper bug: if you try to look at a sun, it will try to explode, but it can't so the game crashes.

In Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video]

vidarh·Oct 7, 2023

There's also Elite - The New Kind, a C version that is mostly faithful to the original: https://github.com/fesh0r/newkind It was done by Christian Pinder: https://www.christianpinder.com/games/ People might also want to check out Ian Bell's Elite homepage, which has a number of the original versions: http://www.ianbellelite.com/

In Documented source code for Elite on the NES

Tepix·Dec 6, 2019

If you like this kind of thing, there's also a faithful re-implementation of the original Elite game, with (readable) source code. Quoting Wikipedia: "... around 1999 Christian Pinder developed Elite: The New Kind as a modern PC port of the original BBC Micro version. He achieved a faithful port by reverse-engineering the original assembly written BBC Micro version and recreating a platform neutral C code variant from it, but at David Braben's request this version was withdrawn from distribution in 2003. In September 2014, on Elite's 30th birthday, Ian Bell blessed Elite: The New Kind and re-released it for free on his website. Since then, Elite: The New Kind is also distributed again in version 1.1 by Christian Pinder; a source code mirror is hosted on GitHub." Link: https://github.com/fesh0r/newkind

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