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

    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 19 01:16:04 2024
    XPost: alt.fan.elite

    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.…

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  • From immibis@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Sat Jan 20 11:12:39 2024
    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.…


    [why Followup-To?... this message was more relevant in comp.misc]

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