Elite over Econet
Mark Moxon's multiplayer Elite, on a BBC Master 128 in your browser, on an Econet that crosses the Internet. The game's page and scoreboard
Finding the game…
Welcome back. Carry on where you left off, or start again with a new commander.
Starting…
How to play
Click the screen to give it the keyboard. The BBC loads Elite from the game's file server, saves your commander and points your ship at the scoreboard by itself: wait for your status screen. Then launch (f0), fly, trade and fight, and dock to report your score to the scoreboard.
- f0
- Launch; front view
- f1-f3
- Rear, left, right views (docked: buy, sell, equip)
- f4, f5
- Galactic, short-range chart
- f6-f9
- Data on system, market, status, inventory
- S, X
- Dive, climb
- < >
- Roll left, right (the , and . keys)
- Space, ?
- Speed up, slow down
- A
- Fire lasers
- T, M, U
- Target, fire, unarm a missile
- E
- ECM
- J
- Jump (in-system)
- H
- Hyperspace (choose on a chart first)
- C
- Docking computer, if you've bought one
- Tab, Escape
- Energy bomb, escape pod
- Copy, Delete
- Pause, carry on (Copy is End)
Function keys: F1-F9 are f1-f9 and F10 is f0 (on a Mac, with fn), or use the buttons under the screen. F12 is Break. Your commander and your BBC are kept in this browser: come back to carry on. A tab you leave pauses once the game's loaded.
Elite over Econet is by Mark Moxon (elite.bbcelite.com), from Elite by Ian Bell and David Braben. The BBC Micro is MacBeeb's emulator, as WebAssembly (GPLv3); the ROMs are Acorn's.