Netrek. The holy grail of retro-gaming. But, most people have no idea what it even is.
Well, I finally put my thoughts down in a post on rec.games.netrek on Usenet.
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Programmer, husband, father, singer, guitarist, tinkerer, reverse engineer, strange, and living in New Jersey. 
“NETREK IS DEAD”
You sound like Nietzsche.
Was the Macintosh version the same as the PC version? I never played, but my brother had a copy of the software on his old college Mac. And I do mean old.
Ahh, you’re thinking of NetTrek, which is an entirely different game. This page, http://www.fatlion.com/randy/nettrek.html, describes a bit of the history, and even hints that there was a chance of getting it resurrected for modern computers, if there was sufficient interest.
NetTrek was a neat game, too … but definitely not the same as Netrek. Netrek is a whole ‘nother game …
Sure enough, NetTrek, for the Mac-ola only. I never got around to updating it as the OS’s for the PC were moving around so much and I just didn’t have the cash for the 4 or so PC’s that you’d need to create the game…
Plus, it just takes a lot of time. Ugh, I guess I’m just getting too old.
Maybe someday soon… I’ll get a couple of Macs and start again.
-Randy
Randy … open-source NetTrek and lets port it to OS X and Linux. An optional Win32 version could be had using Cygwin …
Ahh, probably not enough demand for retro-gaming. Kids today, spoiled by these newfangled 3D video cards. Bah.
Last i seen NetTrek was open source for a long time now.