On Nov 27, 22:12, Kelly Fergason wrote:
> Pete Turnbull wrote:
> >Did you find it? Yes, it's two programs, which I found on Al
Kossow's
> >image of the HP library tape. I've been putting together a web page
> >about BASIC games I've found interesting -- I ran out of time so
> >there's not much there yet, but I extracted TRADER and TRADES
(thanks
> >to Eric Smith, whose tsbextract and tsbdecode programs I adapted).
> Those are it... Cool. I see some time-wasting ahead for me, as if
I
> had that much time to waste...
>
> Ok, next one. Another trek game, but more interactive. I believe it
> was basically a battle, ie. a Klingon
> showed up, and you talked until someone started shooting. It was
more
> like the adventure games that
> came later, 'fire phasers', etc. The source was protected, so you
could
> not list it, and figure out how to win.
>
> Anyone remember that one?
Not offhand, though it sounds vaguely like a few other games. Was it
written in BASIC? What system(s) did it run on?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Sun Nov 30 2003 - 10:01:00 GMT