Kieran had mentioned his interest in the 6502 Apple source code for Prince Of Persia, and expressed some mad ideas to get it working on the BBC Micro, which seemed like crazy talk back then since the two machines are similar in some ways but very different in others.
Note thatb Elite - The New Kind is a recent PC implementation of Elite pretty true to the original BBC version.
In fact it is quite good at pretending to be a Commodore 64 or BBC micro through software emulation. BBC Micro (1) ColecoVision (1) And best of all, this software is completely free and open-source. So the Python APIs will look exactly the same, the microbit, radio, speech, music modules, etc.