Here at Indie Retro News, we have all the time had a delicate spot for Elite ever because the unique 1984 launch after which the unbelievable sequel ‘Frontier Elite II’ on the Amiga in 1993. Each one vastly totally different in graphical high quality, however nonetheless giving a space-sim sci-fi expertise like no different permitting the person to combat in house, commerce, full missions and even in Frontier Elite II land on planets. However for these of you who personal a C64 or Plus/4 ought to try the newest launch of Elite +4. A flicker free model freshly launched by Mark Moxon – of Pigmy’s nice basic Elite +4 because the definitive model for the C64 and Plus/4

Check out that sparkle!

Here is what plus4world says about this unimaginable launch for the Plus/4. “Being the coder who absolutely documented the unique BBC model, Mark Moxon has taken his extensive information of the sport in making a patch succesful to drastically enhance the standard of the C64 graphics by eradicating flicker from the ship-drawing routines. Actually, the code within the patch has been backported from the BBC Master model of Elite, so it’s 100% Bell & Braben’s code that is making its first look on the Commodore 64”. 

Now that is significantly better!

Plus4world go on to say…”Indeed, the 1986 releases of Elite on the BBC Master and Apple II present a marked enchancment within the high quality of the wireframe graphics when in comparison with earlier variations. In the unique 1984 and 1985 variations of Elite, equivalent to these for the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron and Commodore 64, ships are animated on-screen by first erasing them solely, after which redrawing them of their new positions. The improved algorithm within the BBC Master and Apple II variations is analogous, however as an alternative of erasing your entire ship after which redrawing an entire new ship, it erases one line of the previous ship and instantly redraws one line of the brand new ship, repeating this course of till the entire ship will get redrawn, one line at a time. This interleaving of the line-drawing course of leads to a lot smoother ship graphics, and with out including any further steps, so it would not have an effect on the sport velocity”.