The Compendium version of #Acorn #Electron #Elite now has missions - three of them, in fact. Here's the briefing for the Constrictor mission, backported from the #BBCMicro; I've also ported the Thargoid plans mission, and the Trumbles from the #C64 and #NES. 🫡 #retrocomputing #retrogaming #8bit
Given how much of a premium memory space was, was the text compressed in the original code?
Yes. Electron Elite is essentially BBC Micro Elite with features removed and slightly different graphics and sound routines, so data like the text tokenisation system and ship blueprints are identical.
Nice one!
Great stuff Mark! It's just occurred to me that I never played any Elite missions, as I only had the BBC cassette version. Which version of Elite has the most missions? For any platform, as I'd be using an emulator regardless.
Mind you, back in the day I kept expecting missions to arrive at some stage, as I'd heard about them, but no one talked about them not being on the cassette version. Probably kept me playing longer than I otherwise would.
I don't know much about the non-6502 versions of Elite, but for the 6502 versions, the Commodore 64 and NES versions have all three missions. Then again, so does the Elite Compendium, which is my recommended way to play the game these days: elite.bbcelite.com/playing_elite/
Three missions? Oh, I imagined there were more. Although I do very much appreciate how little memory there was for any of this! Right then, I'll have a play with Elite compendium. Thanks!