Noticed some choice viewing for Friday evening.

Brits Who Made the Modern World
Five - 19:30 - 20:00
Computer Games
Peter Snow learns how two Cambridge undergraduates pioneered Britain's £1.4bn computer games industry. David Braben and Ian Bell took the first steps to imagining a 3D electronic world, despite the fact that Eighties computers had just a fraction of the memory capabilities of a modern mobile phone.


Should be a bit of an eye-opener and who knows, maybe a hint or two about Elite IV...
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That's a documentary that could be interesting to watch. Would love to see how it all started (Elite).
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In the end, I was a bit disappointed about the program. Perhaps they tried to cram too much into half an hour, but it seemed to end so suddenly. I think at least an hour long programme would have been better suited to such a topic. It was a good programme but could and should have been so much better.
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I thought it was quite good as I didn't really know much about Elite. I will have to get a copy of it to play sometime. Especially now I have finally got my BBC connected to my CM8833-II and no longer have to use the RF modulator on the television.
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I'd really like to see this regardless. Looked for it at a couple of popular places, but it seems nobody's made this particular episode available yet. Does the network that airs this have it archived and viewable on the net?
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No, but I do have it available as a .ts file. VLC will play this format file, but I will have a go at converting it to avi or something

Tell a lie, its available here
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Thanks, but unfortunately "For UK audiences only" is what I get. But I did see that this is episode three of the show, and I found both the earlier episodes when I looked around earlier. So I figure this one will be available soon as well then. Or maybe I could dig up a good UK-based proxy. I'll look into it when I have time later.
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