old-time Star Trek game for Palm?

Jeff DLB

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Jan 30, 2002, 10:46:23 PM1/30/02

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Remember the old Star Trek computer game that
played on a small square grid, had long- and
short-range scanners, klingons, space stations,
etc? I first played it via acoustic modem on a
hardcopy terminal where every move required a new
printing of the grid (circa 1974).

The format would make it seem a natural for the
small Palm OS devices, yet I cannot find one on
palmgear.com. Does anybody know whether this
nostalgic software exists?

-Jeff DLB

Steven Whatley

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Jan 30, 2002, 11:27:01 PM1/30/02

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Jeff DLB <jef...@erols.com> wrote:
> The format would make it seem a natural for the
> small Palm OS devices, yet I cannot find one on
> palmgear.com. Does anybody know whether this
> nostalgic software exists?

It is there at PalmGear at:

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?prodID=36945

The names are changed to protect the inocient (author) from Paramount. ;)

Enjoy,
Steven

bc

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Jan 31, 2002, 1:09:31 PM1/31/02

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Nostalgia, it ain't what it used to be. I remember typing a Trek
game into a Vic-20 from an old at the time Creative Computing magazine,
but I digress. This link will take you to one of them, a quick peek
at the zip and the source code looks readable:

http://www.palmblvd.com/software/pc/Pocket-Trek-Starship-Simulator-1999-04-23-palm-pc.html

Old date, but Basic is Basic, right? There is cbaspad, smallbasic, and hotpaw
basic that I know about, and probably more.

Steven Whatley

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Jan 31, 2002, 2:15:31 PM1/31/02

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bc <b...@example.net> wrote:
> Nostalgia, it ain't what it used to be. I remember typing a Trek
> game into a Vic-20 from an old at the time Creative Computing magazine,

I once wrote a version of the Trek game for a HP41CV calculator with an
extended memory/function module. I got it all debugged and working great.
I then put in the little magnetic card to save the game and the calculator
crashed. :( It was all gone.

Later,
Steven

Drew Dekreon

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Feb 1, 2002, 7:13:12 PM2/1/02

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Look for Star Battle by Thomas Baker -- he basically rewrote it in GCC and
compiled it..

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Peter da Silva

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Feb 1, 2002, 8:53:26 PM2/1/02

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[story of lost HP41 trek game]

Damn. In 1980 I wrote a full screen Star Trek game for UNIX that had ASCII-
animated phasers and photon torpedoes. You could even launch torpedoes in
proximity mode, and run away, like they do in Voyager (only 20 years ahead
of the show :->). It had a mode that was more like the standard Trek so you
could play it on hardcopy terminals.

It shipped with one of the early 4BSD tapes, but I never kept a copy... and
none of the copies of that tape seem to have been saved. It's all lost now.

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Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. WWFD?

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-- Matthew 10:16 (l.trans)

Patrik Gadler

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Feb 2, 2002, 4:41:32 AM2/2/02

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Hi,

I've tried finding Star Battle, but without success. Any suggestions?

Regards,

Patrik

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Will Lee

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Feb 2, 2002, 8:02:42 AM2/2/02

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On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 09:41:32 GMT, "Patrik Gadler" <pat...@gadler.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've tried finding Star Battle, but without success. Any suggestions?
>

Really? How did you try?

My first and last stop was at http://www.google.com. I plugged in the
search phrase "Star Battle Thomas Baker" and got back a couple of
hits.

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Patrik Gadler

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Feb 2, 2002, 9:07:58 AM2/2/02

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Thanks,

I tried Yahoo and Evreka with "Star Battle Baker" and lots of wrong hits....

/Patrik

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