About
Elite is a space-trading game written by Ian Bell and David Braben; the BBC Micro version is copyright Acornsoft (1985/1986) and the Commodore 64 version was published by Firebird, copyright D. Braben and I. Bell (1985). Elite Universe Editor is a tool, not a standalone game, that lets players create custom universes for classic BBC Micro and Commodore 64 Elite. It supports three original platforms — the BBC Master, the BBC Micro with a 6502 Second Processor, and the Commodore 64 — by pulling together separate submodule repositories for each.
Getting started
Building the BBC versions requires BeebAsm and Python plus GNU Make on Mac/Linux; a Windows build only produces the BBC disc image, while a Mac/Linux build also produces the Commodore 64 version, which additionally needs the VICE emulator's disk-image tool. The resulting disc images are then loaded onto original hardware or an emulator.
Media
Additional notes
- Technical note
- Since no original Commodore 64 Elite source code exists, that version is built by binary-patching the original game disk image — extracting the binaries, injecting newly assembled editor code, disabling copy protection, and repackaging a new disk image — rather than compiling from source like the BBC versions.
- License note
- The repository has no LICENSE file; per GitHub's default terms, visitors may read and fork it but no other use is granted, to respect the underlying Elite source's copyright.