Listing for AppleII StarTrek

From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela_at_ellie.ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri Apr 27 11:46:35 2001

I recall there being multiple Star Trek games for the Apple II. In fact
the first reasonably large program I wrote was a Star Trek game. I had
played the a version at a store and developed a similar game (based upon
Wrath of Kahn) as a project for a high school programming class. Being the
only geek in my High School, I got to sit at a computer and hack for the
whole semester, while the rest of the student attempted to learn Basic.

I didn't have the source for the game I had played, and, of course, my
technique at that point was terrible, but the game is OK. Kahn usually
gets the first shot and usually takes out the engine room, so winning can
be a bit tough. My version also has some graphics for weapon fire. It
takes more than 16K though.

I also wrote a federation vs klingon fleet battle program where you had
to program the action of your ships. It favored the klingons too much,
and usually the only way to win was to get your ships close enough to the
klingons and take them out with a self destruct. I had always planned
to make it a more even matchup but never got around to it.

I still have source and disk images somewhere. I may have to play with them
again at some point.

Eric

> Okay. Let me know if you want the Ahl version, and I'll put it back on
> my web site.
>
> >
> > Jim:
> >
> > I looked at home, and I don;t have any of Ahl's books. I do have a
> > version of StarTrek that was for TinyBasic, which I could use. I was
> > interested in the version that came with the 16k Apple ][ because it seemed
> > to make use of some of the graphics capabilities.
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Strickland [mailto:jim_at_calico.litterbox.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 3:05 PM
> > To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> > Subject: Re: Listing for AppleII StarTrek
> >
> >
> > I have it in David Aho's book "More Basic Computer Games".
> > I had a scanned image of each page of the listing on my web page for quite
> > a while, but I removed it. If nobody else gets back to you let me know and
> > I'll
> > dig up the images or scan 'em again.
> >
> > >
> > > Hello, all:
> > >
> > > Does anyone have the listing for or a disk image of the 16k StarTrek
> > > for the Apple II?
> > >
> > > Rich
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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