Mark Moxon

@markmoxon.bsky.social

Writer, walker, software archaeologist. Back in the day: Editor of Acorn User, Editor of h2g2.

I love analysing old code, and my aim is to create the best code disassemblies you have ever seen.

Purveyor of Elite/Lander/Revs hacks.

www.markmoxon.com

@markmoxon.bsky.social

For what it’s worth, I don’t use AI in any of my projects and I’m not planning to change that. I’ve added a prominent corner-flash popup about this to all my project homepages.

I’m pretty sure there is room for both AI and AI-free content out there. But for me… I handcraft. ✍️

elite.bbcelite.com

@markmoxon.bsky.social

Yep, he also used AI to extend my C64 Elite source into a “super-Elite”. It’s pretty inevitable if you put everything online like me. I’ve lost count of the number of AI versions of Elite people have knocked out. Lander and Revs too. I’m not removing my content, so this is the New Normal, I guess?

@markmoxon.bsky.social

That was where this whole project started! I’d always wanted to understand the split screen and I couldn’t find anything that explained it in a way I understood, so when I stumbled on @kieranhj.bsky.social’s buildable source code, that’s the bit I started analysing. I guess I just didn’t stop! 🤣

@markmoxon.bsky.social

Yeah, on the Beeb the game’s name uses double height character 141 in teletext. A number that’s burned into my soul! No teletext on the Elk, so no double-height character 141, sadly.

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