Raspberry Pi ArcElite

[mattrelf]

I've been trying to get the Archimedes version of Elite up and running on an emulator without much success. I was just wondering with David's links with the Raspberry Pi he would authorise for someone with the rights skills (certainly not me) to port ArcElite to the Raspberry Pi as something to keep us going with during the long wait for ED.
I don't know anything about the differences between the ARM2/3 in the Archimedes and the ARM processor in the Raspberry Pi so I have no idea how big a job it would be. I certainly wouldn't be looking for any updating of graphics or anything. I just would like it to run natively so I wouldn't have to fight with an emulator.

Anyone else like this idea?

 

[Alan the Armadillo]

I would be out there getting a rasp pie if they had arch elite workin on it, no idea about the tech difficulties but it could take as long as Elite D lol

 

[SirGeldi]

Is Arc Elite written in ASM or C ?
Where can i download the source code ?
I only found an ADF image so far und try to get the Red Squirrel emulator to run atm.

Anybody tried this http://virtualacorn.co.uk/index2.htm ?
It seems to be the only legal way to get the Arcorn ROMs.

 

[Sir.Tj]

I've moved this to the Off Topic Games Dev thread, as its not directly related to ED

 

[nOmArch]

Just download the RiscOS distro and install it to a different SD Card and then play Arc Elite natively.

btw I have the Virtual Acorm StrongARM Risc OS 4.39 package and it is very good.

I also own a SA Risc PC and an A5000 to play Arc Elite as well as a little 8 bit Econet network.

e2a: Virtual A5000 (precursor to Virtual Acorn) will quite happily run Arc Elite but it has been discontinued and the only place you can get it now is through torrents.

 

[SirGeldi]

Wow that sounds so easy, i nether thought about.
Thank you very much

I will buy the virtual acorn package if i don't get the free emu to run.
Just hope thez diliver to mz country the website seems very UK centric.

I got the ROMs but don't ask from where

 

[Sammo Hoi]

I've been trying to get the Archimedes version of Elite up and running on an emulator without much success. I was just wondering with David's links with the Raspberry Pi he would authorise for someone with the rights skills (certainly not me) to port ArcElite to the Raspberry Pi as something to keep us going with during the long wait for ED.
I don't know anything about the differences between the ARM2/3 in the Archimedes and the ARM processor in the Raspberry Pi so I have no idea how big a job it would be. I certainly wouldn't be looking for any updating of graphics or anything. I just would like it to run natively so I wouldn't have to fight with an emulator.

Anyone else like this idea?

I think it is a great Idea!

I managed to get ArcElite working with Arcem on my RPi - but it took me ages and I am not sure I could repeat the achievement!

It plays great and it feels so right to play an Elite game on the RPi.

I also have the BBC Micro original Elite playing on it with an emulator as well. It would be so great to have a true RPi port of both.

 

[au4049q]

I thought that oolite was available for raspberry pi debian wheezy.
It might need to be recompiled, but its there.
If archemedies Elite is not like oolite then what are the differences?
You can change keyboard assignments by sudo leafpad keyconfig.plist from the right location in your filesystem.

 

[Brianetta]

Just download the RiscOS distro and install it to a different SD Card and then play Arc Elite natively.

You can't, unfortunately. RISC OS on Pi is 100% 32 bit, whereas ArcElite was compiled for old-style 26 bit instruction pointers. As a result, it won't run on the newer platform.

It will run in ArcEm, but it's slower than it is on an A3020; I've had them side by side, I can attest to this.

 

[robaberry]

I'd love to play ArcElite on my Raspberry Pi. Shame there's no place where a download of that could be uploaded for other Pi users to enjoy it.