The older ages in this forum may remember the year 1984, which was the year of Elite. If you are in a sentimental mood and want to have a look at it again and how it played, you can relive your past fascination by paying a visually almost perfect clone of it which is free under the GNU license, called Oolite. Make a stash and clean the universe of that Thargoid dirt! Dock your ship and try to not perforate that space station while doing so!
http://www.oolite.org/
Why the change to the forum layout? Beige writing on light-grey background is - kind of new, one might say... Is the Navy doing desert warfare now?