Frame shift drive was not coined by Frontier. Who was it?

[Slopey]

Nope.

Hyperjumps, Witch-Space and "Space-skip facility" were.

Space-skip was called the Torus Jump Drive in the original.

I doubt the term "Frame Shift" is from the biological description as a source - the term makes sense from a Frontier/FFE perspective as your frame of reference changes depending what you're close to, much like "Relative To: " in FE2/FFE.

If you look back the DDF archive, where all this was first discussed rather than a point-to-point jump POI system, there may be something in there which sheds more light on the term.

 

[Cody]

Space-skip was called the Torus Jump Drive in the original.

<scratches head> Jump drive, yes - the Torus part I don't recall from the original.

 

[Kormander]

Space-skip was called the Torus Jump Drive in the original.

I doubt the term "Frame Shift" is from the biological description as a source - the term makes sense from a Frontier/FFE perspective as your frame of reference changes depending what you're close to, much like "Relative To: " in FE2/FFE.

If you look back the DDF archive, where all this was first discussed rather than a point-to-point jump POI system, there may be something in there which sheds more light on the term.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/search.php?query="frame+shift"&titleonly=0&searchdate=365&beforeafter=before&sortby=dateline&order=ascending&sortorder=ascending

So, if we can trust this search - it will show us the oldest occurrence of frame shift on the frontier forums.

I still can't find any posts about naming the FSD - maybe I missed it?

 

[Lord of the Isles]

As I said in my first every post on forum, I do not hear "Frame shift drive" I hear "Friendship drive"
An odd phrase to use anyway.

Thank goodness: it isn't just me then.

Once your brain starts hearing "Friendship Drive" you can't help it doing it all the time. I blame all those years of Star Trek when I was a kid.

 

[Slopey]

<scratches head> Jump drive, yes - the Torus part I don't recall from the original.

It was "Space-Skip" in the original BBC manual, and subsequently referred to the Torus JD in other versions iirc. In the Beeb Command summary card I have here, it's even listed as "Game Skip".

 

[who?]

The FSD seems to be similar to the (theoretical) Alcubierre Drive proposed in 1994, though I've not read the FSD phrase in connection with it.

 

[Cody]

It was "Space-Skip" in the original BBC manual, and subsequently referred to the Torus JD in other versions iirc. In the Beeb Command summary card I have here, it's even listed as "Game Skip".

<nods> I had BBC Elite, but don't actually recall 'Space-Skip' - 'tis a long time, thirty years. It seems I got the 'Jump Drive' label from Elite Plus.

 

[Mr_Blastman]

I just imagine the FSD is an Alcubierre drive to suspend disbelief.

 

[Hellhawk666]

I just imagine the FSD is an Alcubierre drive to suspend disbelief.

Same here, but the actual term "Frame-Shift Drive" seems to be an ED original, apart from the Reynolds reference. Personally I think it's a great name - at least they didn't call it warp drive

 

[Zieman]

It was "Space-Skip" in the original BBC manual, and subsequently referred to the Torus JD in other versions iirc. In the Beeb Command summary card I have here, it's even listed as "Game Skip".

"Space-Skip" also in C64 and PC manuals.