It is a good thing Abandonia has delivered a version of Elite for downloading! I love the game, eversince I played it on my Acorn Electron, ages ago!
The version that I find the most 'playable' is
Elite - The New Kind, which can be downloaded here:
http://www.downloadfreegames.co.uk/games/d...oad/newkind.zip
I changed some wave-sounds (for instance the crappy laser-sfx and explosions) for some better ones, and altered the colours on the main scanner as one can see here:
(If you would wish to use this image, you should make it a 256-colour bitmap.)