*''Elite'' was originally intended to contain 2<sup>48</sup> (approximately 282,000,000,000,000) galaxies. However, the number was limited to eight when Acornsoft noted that such a gigantic number would make the artificiality of the game universe evident to the player.
== Links ==
* [http://tacgr.emuunlim.com/downloads/filedetail.php?recid=284 The Amstrad CPC Games Resource]
* [http://www.cpczone.net/game/1579 CPC game base from cpczone]
* [http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=801 CPC game base from CPC Power]
* [http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/ Ian Bell's ''Elite'' pages]
* [http://www.frontier.co.uk Frontier Developments] David Braben's games company
* [http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/ Elite Club], with downloadable shareware versions of the ''Frontier'' games
* [http://robertholdstock.com/ Robert Holdstock]
* [http://www.spectrum.lovely.net/Elite.html ZX Spectrum ''Elite''] emulated for Java enabled browsers
* [http://www.lotf.co.uk/ ''Life On the Frontier'' site]
* [http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=alt.fan.elite ''Elite'' newsgroup]
* [http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/doc/games/EliteFAQ.htm alt.fan.elite FAQ]
* [http://dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Action/Space_Combat/Elite_Series/ dmoz.org ''Elite Series''] links
* [http://oolite.aegidian.org/ ''Oolite'']: ''Elite''-alike for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux
* The [http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Main_Page ''EliteWiki''] project
* [http://www.downloadfreegames.co.uk/games/details.asp?id=37 '''Elite: The New Kind'']: ''Elite''-alike for Windows
* [http://armchairarcade.com/neo/node/750 Firebird's Elite: A Look Back at the Greatest Game Ever Made] article about the game
* [http://www.frontierastro.co.uk/ ''FrontierAstro''] a site covering ''Elite'', Frontier and Astronomy
* [http://www.cpcgamereviews.com/e/index.html#elite CPC Game Reviews review of Elite]
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