· by frontierastro.bsky.social ·1d ago · view on bsky.app ↗

Here's the interview with #Elite authors Ian Bell and David Braben from Acorn World in 1984. It's a good interview and quite amusing in places! I have still drawn a complete blank as to what this publication actually was, as its not mentioned as a magazine supplement anywhere 😕

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The first page of a two-page interview with Elite authors Ian Bell and David Braben in the December 1984 edition of Acorn World. This page features a photo of a young Ian Bell sitting on some steps outdoors.

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Henrique Olifiers · 1 · 1d ago

Although that's a decade later, can't find earlier mags.

FrontierAstro · 1 · 1d ago

Thanks Henrique! Yes, I came across Acorn Archimedes World in a few of my searches but, as you say, that's some time later. I'll keep looking, all a bit of a mystery 🤔

Henrique Olifiers · 2 · 1d ago

Here you go: archive.org/details/acor...

Sedat Kapanoğlu · 1 · 21h ago

david braben is the spitting image of steve jobs.