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Sep 7, 2026 22 min

Original Elite on the BBC B - Computerphile

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Elite was one of the first computer games to use 3d wireframe graphics and procedurally generated environments. Physicist Richard Hill shows us the game and explains how it inspired him. Richard's first video about the BBC microcomputer: http://youtu.be/do6xydtcVPkemail your code to [email protected] you are interested in playing around with 'Aurena' check out Richard's University of Nottingham page here: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ppzlev/(or save this zip file and read the 'readme' file enclosed: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ppzlev/aurena.zip )http://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileThis video was filmed and edited by Brady Haran.Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputerComputerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at:http://periodicvideos.blogspot.co.uk/...

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