BASIC games -- was Re: HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sun Nov 30 10:01:00 2003

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

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