In 1990, Amit Patel created the BBS door game Solar Realms Elite . In his other life he has worked with programming languages, scientific equipment, data analysis, visualization, geological exploration, simulation of complex systems, economic modeling, maps, trend analysis, artificial intelligence, and web software. He’s now working on interactive reference materials for game developers. SRE was one of my all-time favorite games . It was my great pleasure, then, to interview Patel about SRE. The interview was conducted by email Jan. 3-27, 2013. Do you enjoy my retrocomputing interviews on Break Into Chat? Please join my email list and stay in touch. 📬 Josh: I have a clear memory of the first computer I ever used: a Commodore 64 in my kindergarten class. When did your family get into computers? What kinds did you use over the years? Amit: My first experience with a computer was with a TRS-80 in elementary school, for just a few weeks.…