The Classic Super Star Trek Game

&gt; 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:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.memory-alpha.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Treaty_of_Algeron</a>

Upon seeing this game, Tom Nelson and a friend wrote Begin, a tactical Star Trek simulation. It&#x27;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&#x27;ll ask Tom tomorrow.

Wow, this is one of the first computer games that I played. It was running on an HP minicomputer connected to a teletype device with a paper printout.

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&#x27;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 &gt;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 &quot;Silent 700&quot; series.<p>I believe the program was written in what was called &quot;Super Fortran&quot; 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:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digibarn.com&#x2F;collections&#x2F;systems&#x2F;ti-tymshare-100&#x2F;...</a>

Watch! if you don&#x27;t want to play it !<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-XWl9x13PU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=L-XWl9x13PU</a>

Great game. I played it recently in CPM on my Altair clone.

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:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;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 &quot;typical novice&#x27;s session with ed&quot; after a while.<p><a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EdIsTheStandardTextEditor" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;c2.com&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;wiki?EdIsTheStandardTextEditor</a><p><pre><code> Let&#x27;s look at a typical novice&#x27;s session with the mighty ed: golem&gt; ed ? help ? ? ? quit ? exit ? bye ? hello? ? eat flaming death ? ^C ? ^C ? ^D ? </code></pre> If you still want to play it, you distro probably have a package called bsdgames on the main package repo.

Emscripten .js port Plz.