Star Trek (text game)
Since the early 1970s, a series of Star Trek computer simulation games have been programmed to be shown only with the help of text output. The gameplay has been implemented on dozens of platforms and operating systems, and inspired more games, who continued the principle with graphics, network support or otherwise.
An early version of this game was programmed in 1971 by Mike Mayfield on an SDS Sigma 7 and later ported by him under HP BASIC. This version was included in HP's collection of public domain programs and so became widespread.
Game play
The player controls an extracted from the Star Trek universe Star Trek and tries to destroy the enemy ships Klingons. With the help of text commands he can in and between sixty four quadrants, each consisting of eight by eight fields, navigate, shields and discharged or use sensors and weapons. Actions in the game cost energy that can be recharged in distributed on the field Starbases however.
Ports
BASIC Ports
- In the summer of 1973, David H. Ahl the HP version of Mayfield on BASIC -PLUS for DECs ported RSTS -11 compiler, and added little things here hinzu.Ahl was employed at the time for DEC and was supported by his colleague Mary Cole. Under the name SPACWR Ahl published his version in the 1973 published collection of programs 101 Basic Computer Games.
Non - BASIC Ports
- Dave Matuszek and Paul Reynolds sat around 1975 Grady Hicks Taurus BASIC version, which was based on Mayfield's program, but innovations contained to CDC6600 in Fortran. Though the game was initially released as Star Trek, contributed later versions as well as Ahls / Leedoms porting the name Super Star Trek. In the game, including new weapons ( "Experimental Death Ray ", " Novamax warhead " ), espionage probes, Foreign Missions were inserted on planets and new opponents. In general, the game became more complex through many small changes. In addition, a memory function and a Bosskey were integrated. Tom Almy ported the game in C and released versions for MS- DOS, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and OS / 2 From the end of 2004 he also worked with other people to SST2K, a new port of the game.
- WinTrek, an early version for Windows computers, Joe Jaworski published in 1992 as shareware. Meanwhile, it is available with Enhanced WinTrek as open source game.
- Jason Shankel ( a programming of Spore ) wrote the mid- 1990s with open Trek a 3D version of Super Star Trek. Open stands for Open Source (GPL ).
Versions of BASIC
- TRS -80 version. online playable
- Commodore Basic V2
- DEC BASIC
- DEC BASIC -PLUS
- OS -8 BASIC - (PDP -8)
- TSS -8 BASIC - (PDP -8)
- RSTS / E BASIC ( DEC)
- Altair BASIC
- Palo Alto Tiny BASIC
- Intellec MDS
- CDC 6000
- PR1ME BASIC / VM
- BASIC -80 CP / M ( Microsoft BASIC)
- INTEGER BASIC ( Apple II)
- MS- DOS, GW - BASIC. online playable
- Tandy Color Computer Color BASIC
- BBC BASIC
- Acornsoft ( BBC Micro)
- Exidy Sorcerer BASIC
- HP 2000 BASIC
- TRS -80 Level II BASIC