Olympia history and design archives

• A short article about the history of Olympia, why I wrote it, and a few of the design issues which were encountered.

• Olympia II design list: 1992
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• Olympia II design list: November 1993 - April 1994.
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• Post-launch design list: August 1994 - November 1994.
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  Occaisionally interesting comments about Olympia appear on the Net, and sometimes I remember to save them.

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• Olympia I was the first Olympia, run for 40 turns from November, 1991 to September, 1992.

• T'Nyc

  Olympia was inspired by a PBEM called T'Nyc, written by Stephen Tihor. I never played this game myself, but was so awed and fascinated by its massive scale when I saw it back in 1988 that I decided I had to create my own computer moderated PBEM.

  T'Nyc is long gone, but some material about it survives here:

  • T'Nyc rules
  • Map of T'Nyc
  • Steve Chapin's turn 14
  • The T'Nyc Times: v4n1 v5n1 v5n2 v5n3 v5n4 v5n5 v5n6 v5n7