Originally Posted by Chris T

Aww, and there was I thinking this was a thread about really old games ... like Elite, which I now have running on my PC at work and my Mac at home after a little Googling yesterday (I came over all nostalgic thanks to Dilligaf's sig )

Eilte: The New Kind is a complete rebuild of the game, pretty close to the original BBC version. Easy to find via Google, apparently encouraged by one of the two original authors but frowned on by the other. There was a Mac OSX port of it, but so far I'm having trouble finding it as the ambivalent original co-author has done a pretty good job of shutting down sites that hosted it. I have, on the other hand, managed to get a copy of 'Oolite' (!!!) which is basically Elite: TNK for Mac OS, stripped down and tweaked to avoid potential copyright issues. Played it a little last night, and felt myself getting sucked back in time ... it's 1984 all over again and my spare room is once more the cockpit of a Cobra Mk III. Expect divorce proceedings within a month ...