> In December 2013 I added three new commands -- CLOAK to cloak the Enterprise...<p>A true Star Trek fan would know this violates the Treaty of Algeron: <a href="http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Algeron" rel="nofollow">http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Algeron</a>
Upon seeing this game, Tom Nelson and a friend wrote Begin, a tactical Star Trek simulation. It's been in C for over a decade, and still has a following. You can find it on Abandonia and other places. Even has a Wikipedia page. Though as far as I know it ISNT based on the Star Trek Battles paper game as suggested there. I'll ask Tom tomorrow.
I learned programming by reading the source code of this game in the fantastic book by David Ahl. I still remember an array called K which contained the X,Y coordinates and shield strength of each Klingon warship.
I remember playing Star Trek on HP teletypes connected to the Peoria mainframe in the high school math lab. Jeez we burned through a lot of paper.<p>A friend modded a version to automatically fire photon torpedoes when you entered a sector with Klingons. It calc'd the trajectory so it never missed.<p>Of course the downside was the blow back if you shot one right next to you. Or if there was a star in the way. Or there were >3 Klingons that would hammer you while the computer is cycling through the auto firing sequence.
I remember playing this game as well, many, many years ago.<p>If memory serves, I was playing it on thermal printer that eventually became the TI "Silent 700" series.<p>I believe the program was written in what was called "Super Fortran" at the time.<p>It was a great deal of fun.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/ti-tymshare-100/DSC02096.JPG" rel="nofollow">http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/ti-tymshare-100/...</a>
Watch! if you don't want to play it !<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-XWl9x13PU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-XWl9x13PU</a>
meh. this game was painful to be played after the 80s.<p>here is the usual session
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-XWl9x13PU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-XWl9x13PU</a><p>every time i started that game because people around me said it was fun, it reminded me of the "typical novice's session with ed" after a while.<p><a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EdIsTheStandardTextEditor" rel="nofollow">http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EdIsTheStandardTextEditor</a><p><pre><code> Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:
golem> ed
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help
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quit
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exit
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bye
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hello?
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eat flaming death
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^C
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^C
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^D
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If you still want to play it, you distro probably have a package called bsdgames on the main package repo.