Elite on Beagle Board

Evening All,

Is there a version of Elite available that will run on the Beagle Board? I read somewhere that Jeffrey Lee updated ArcElite to run on the SA processor, just wondered if anyone had tried to get it running on the Beagle Board.

Many Thanks, Rob.

I did update it to be StrongARM compatible, but not to be 32bit compatible. Since we don’t have any source code, making it 32bit compatible, and then ARMv6/7 compatible, would probably be a lot of work. Your best bet is probably to wait for Aemulor (Pro) to be ported, which can run the game fine.

Okay! Thanks for the info! I’m looking forward to playing Elite once again!

On which note, I had a read through some of the Cortex-A8 docs at the weekend and I think everything that Aemulor needs for implementing its ‘StrongARM’ emulation mode (by far the fastest) is present, so it should be possible to produce a full port of Aemulor Pro, given time.

(That said, the BB is undoubtedly fast enough to run ArcElite, and most other RPC-era software, using Aemulor’s interpreter anyway.)

Hopefully 6502Em can be coaxed into working too.