Someone make a Flash mini game:

[Calaban]

Call it "How your dad did it"

Basically it is a faithful recreation of the original elite game, of approach and docking to a station.

Then we can link it every time someone says "docking is hard"

 

[peteuplink]

Someone did make a flash version of Elite (or was it java?). I forget what it was called. I think it was eventually removed from most places due to it using the source code from the original BBC version of the game.

Docking in this game is about a million times easier than the original.

 

[McLaine]

Just do a search for OOLite

Damn near perfectly faithful reverse engineered version of the game for PC

 

[peteuplink]

Just do a search for OOLite

Damn near perfectly faithful reverse engineered version of the game for PC

Oops! I'd forgotten about Oolite... The creator and I follow each other on Twitter, too... *ahem*

 

[Calaban]

nono- i mean the orginal, wireframe elite landings

with only the 4 arrow keys for control

 

[TheDoctor]

There is a BBC emulator for Android off the Google play store where they link several BBC games which include elite.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.littlefluffytoys.beebdroid&hl=en_GB