Subj : Solar Realms Elite title screen
To   : All
From : Captain Kirk
Date : Wed Feb 06 2013 11:42 am

I ran into a conundrum today and wondered if anyone might be able to shed any
light.

I was a big fan of SRE back in the early 1990s and played it a lot. Best as I
can remember, almost every instance of SRE that I played back then had an ANSI
title screen with the letters SRE beside a space ship. You can see an example
of that screen here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sre.gif

I actually made that screen shot back in 2006. I probably captured it from Fire
Escape's BBS in St. Louis (bbs.fehq.org, but defunct now)

Anyway, I wanted to remake this screen shot for my BBS door game wiki using a
different method of capturing to be consistent with my other new screen shots.
However NONE of the SRE games I have tried on any current BBSes has this title
screen!

So, I talked with Amit Patel (author), and he said that the official SRE
distribution did not have such a screen. So someone added it on, either as
part of a flavor, or something else. (All of SRE's screens could be replaced or
customized)

Anyway, I was quite surprised to learn this. My memory is that most (but not
all) BBSes where I played SRE in the 1990s had this screen. 

Anyone know anything about it? Who made the screen, or where it came from?  I
have looked through a bunch of SRE "flavors" but have yet to find one with this
screen.

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