clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 20.09.2015 um 01:55 schrieb Bill Pragnell:
> > clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> >> Still requires you to get a media (tape?) image of the game itself; not
> >> sure if that's possible in any strictly legal fashion unless you owned
> >> the original... or backed the new incarnation on Kickstarter. Yup, you
> >> heard me: Backers have official access to the Good Old Times ;)
> >
> > Aha - http://www.elitehomepage.org/bbc/index.htm
> >
> > And that's directly from one of the original authors :)
>
> Doesn't /exactly/ say anything about the game's legal status.

True. Although the history of that site, plus the game's Wikipedia page, seem to
imply that Bell's distribution of the original Elite is legit. I think he and
Braben retained the rights to the game when they originally signed with
Acornsoft, so they could port it to other platforms themselves.

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