>
>At the risk of turning you into more of an appreciator, here is how to
run
>Trek80 on your SOL:
>
>1. Assuming that you have your cassette player properly attached to the
SOL,
>press the "play" button - the tape won't start until the SOL tells it
to.
>2. Make sure your CAPS LOCK in on. Then at the '>' prompt enter XEQ
><return>.
>3. Alternatively, enter GET. After a few moments the SOL will respond
with
>something like 'TREK80 0000 23AB' (the beginning and end addresses).
Then
>enter EX 0 and you are aboard the Enterprise.
>
>BTW, I would make a copy of the tape rather than using the original.
Old
>tape literally get flakey, and I've had to replace the pressure pad on
>several of my original PT tapes.
>
>And if you like Trek80 as an arcade game, you must try TARGET by Steve
>Dompier. It was almost always used as an attention getter in its demo
mode
>by PT dealers. You fire missles at 'airplanes' and if you play an AM
radio
>nearby, you can hear the sound effects of missle launches, explosions,
and
>falling debris.
>
>email me with your address if you would like xerox copies of Trek80,
Target,
>or most SOL documentation (though I don't have FOCAL docs or a copy of
that
>tape - are you listening, Frank?)
>
>Bob Stek - Keeper of lost SOLs
>
>bobstek_at_ix.netcom.com
Thanks, Bob. Looks like you may be getting me aboard the
Starship Enterprise after all. I will give it my best shot.
I have the SOL docs somewhere in this nightmarishly cluttered
and disorganized museum I live in. May have TARGET too.
I will take your advice and copy the Trek 80 cassette.
I am curious about one thing. Is the Trek 80 among the
very earliest examples of game software for microcomputers?
Bob Wood
>
>
>
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