[EvanAnderson]

I'd be interested to know if the author followed the "alt.fan.elite" newsgroup back in the 1996-1997 timeframe. There were some discussions on the group at that time re: multiplayer online Elite-type games. (Specifically, I ended having a number of emails w/ a guy named Randall near Melbourne talking about game dynamics, etc, back in late 1996. I'm sure it isn't the same guy, but it brought back fun memories and caused me to dig out some old backups for a quick read today!)

[phooool]

Nope I'm not randall from Melbourne and I didn't follow all.fan.elite, sorry! I was playing elite on the zx spectrum around let's see, 1986? And then frontier and first encounters after that. In 96 that was the golden age of space sims, xwing and tie fighter...IWar, freespace, starlancer

[EvanAnderson]

My Elite experience was on the Commodore 64, but aside from that it sounds like we had a trajectory through subsequent titles that was similar. Your screenshots look great and I really enjoyed reading the entire blog.