There are lots of vids covering the BBC micro & origins of Elite, this one takes a different approach & looks at the actual programming logic. Well worth a watch.
Excellent video on the original Elite
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There are lots of vids covering the BBC micro & origins of Elite, this one takes a different approach & looks at the actual programming logic. Well worth a watch.
Interesting (though I did get a bit of a SuperCruise stare during some of the programming bits) - but pronouncing Lave as lah-vey?
I’ve always said Lave sounding like have, and I’ve heard it like save on occasion. But lah-vey is something I visit for the daily deposit
As a coder I did find that bit interesting. The ASM instruction sets I learned at uni were not too far from 6502.
I think you’ve got the “correct” pronunciation of Lave - I think there was a discussion about it way back, and I think DB is on video saying it that way. Lave Radio wouldn’t have such a catchy jingle if it was how I said itOne of those words I never heard said out loud back in the dayI pronounce Lave like 'behave'.
I have to admit I zoned out a bit during the explanation of the scanner programming
In my defence, I’m Northern by ‘eck.
I pronounce it as in 'lathe'.Interesting (though I did get a bit of a SuperCruise stare during some of the programming bits) - but pronouncing Lave as lah-vey?
I’ve always said Lave sounding like have, and I’ve heard it like save on occasion. But lah-vey is something I visit for the daily deposit
Lave is pronounced like "save"! Always has been. Always will.Interesting (though I did get a bit of a SuperCruise stare during some of the programming bits) - but pronouncing Lave as lah-vey?
I’ve always said Lave sounding like have, and I’ve heard it like save on occasion. But lah-vey is something I visit for the daily deposit
Lave (for me at least) was only ever a written name in-game and in Robert Holdstock’s novella that came with the Acorn Electron tape I bought in ‘84 - so for 30-ish years I’d been saying it so. The few other Elite players at school back then also said it that way. I didn’t hear it otherwise until ED’s Kickstarter. Bit difficult to unwire those longtime neurons!
Also, round my neck of the woods we eat sc-ons instead of sc-owns for what it’s worth
Uszaa was "Ooss-tsah", Diso was "Deesoh", I cant imagine anyone pronouncing Reorte other than "Reh-orteh". Anyone got other places out their head - old original names?
I pronounce Lave, well the AVE part actually, as in British English pronunciation of "Avenge" (Scottish accent apparently) - no correctness claim from me tho.
Just that's how it sounds in my mind.
Just that's how it sounds in my mind.
Tee-oh-nis-la for where the orbital ship graveyard should be, Zai-on-ss for where the Bank is (and the punning planet “Industry” in FE2), and Reed-kwot for the place to test one’s mettle.
Edit: I’d just like to say that a planet name resulting from procedural generation (name constructed from vowel + consonant pairs strung together) and never actually voiced can’t really have an incorrect pronunciation - apart from Northpin’s and the OP’s vid way of saying it
They’re definitely very wrong Joking, no offence intended Northpin
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Nice video, but he could really do with working on his diction.
