Gregory's Server@spacehobo @tommythorn @NanoRaptor Apparently that radar scope was a late addition to Elite. David Braben said he came up with it when tinkering when the game was supposedly fiinshed - two weeks before duplication. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-elite-took-flight/1100-6301740/
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It was a superb UI (UX?) design, it allowed me to completely visualise the real-time 3D environment I was flying in without any difficulty. It utterly blew my mind at the time.