Rhii Alexander 🏳️⚧️Genuinely didn't think I'd have an Atom on my workbench!
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electron.gregImproved plot program by reducing pixel density algorithm and moving "laser dish" slightly to the left to make it less central.
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Default hard-wired green palette of the 6847 video chip in my Acorn Atom replaced with alternative palette (meaning a black background!!) using a Dragon 32 "Hoglet" video adapter.
I made a monitor platform using 8mm Perspex and bonding compound (not glue). Platform is modular in 2 sections so it can be put away in my "really useful box" with the computer for taking to retro events.
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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋThe story of the creation of Elite:
“Evidence began to trickle back to Acornsoft that people were exploring the bottled universe more obsessively even than the publishers had dared to hope: for hour after hour, day after day, week after week. Word reached them that an intrepid explorer had, indeed, discovered a Planet Arse in one of the seven galaxies, which Bell and Braben hadn't checked for expletives.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/18/features.weekend
Masters of their universe
Computer games weren't very good in 1982. There was Space Invaders and there was PacMan - but you didn't get much more for your money than the basic zapping and munching experience. Which was what prompted two teenage mathematicians to create the cosmos of their dreams, making them a fortune and inspiring computer nerds the world over. Francis Spufford takes a journey to galaxies far far away.