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Elite: The New Kind - a remake of 1984's 8-bit classic space combat and
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trading game "Elite" by Ian Bell and David Braben.
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There remains a large contingent of veteran gamers who maintain that the Bell
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and Braben classic Elite was the greatest computer game of all time. This
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remake - Elite: The New Kind - was produced by reverse engineering the
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original disk-based version of Elite on the BBC Microcomputer. However, it
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was updated with shaded polygon graphics and most of the enhanced gameplay
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elements which characterised later versions of Elite.
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Snapshots of the original Elite for various emulators (including some which
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will run on FreeBSD) may be downloaded from co-author Ian Bell's Elite site:
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http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/
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Shareware versions of the later Elite sequels (for MS-DOS) may be downloaded
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from David Braben's Elite Club: http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/download/
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Author: Christian Pinder <christian@newkind.co.uk>
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WWW: http://www.newkind.co.uk/
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-- Johann Visagie <wjv@FreeBSD.org>
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