[cctalk] Re: TREK7 is back! - TREK7 FORTRAN Multi-User Game (PDP-10/VAX) Revived

Awesome! Thank you! I also received a link to a fortran 4 copy of adventure. Now to spend months or years trying to punch, read, compile, and run it 😂 On Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 8:49 PM Tom Hunter via cctalk &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote: > I am pretty sure I have a FORTRAN IV version of it running on CDC CYBER and > 6000 series mainframes. I will dig it up next time I fire up the emulator. > Tom > > On Fri, 31 Mar 2023, 8:59 pm Eric Moore via cctalk, &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > > > wrote: > > > Congrats! I am looking for star trek for fortran 4 if anyone knows where > it > > is. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Eric > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 7:52 AM Hans-Ulrich Hölscher via cctalk < > > cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote: > > > > > The Star Trek simulation game TREK7 was written in FORTRAN by Donald M. > > > Ecclestone in the early 70ties for the PDP-10. > > > > > > The game was ported to VAX computers running VMS in 1978 by the author > > with > > > the help of Dan Gahlinger. > > > > > > For some years TREK7 fell into a deep slumber until in 1993 Dan > Gahlinger > > > decided to revive it, but some severe bugs remained, hindering any > > > successful round of game. > > > > > > Last year I began to work on the problems still present in TREK7. > > > > > > After detecting and fixing more than 60 bugs (mostly caused by > > > transcription errors) step by step, the game is playable again now. > > > > > > Dan Gahlinger backed out of the project and I am the maintainer of > TREK7 > > > now. > > > > > > For details see: https://gunkies.org/wiki/TREK7 > > > > > > Former TREK7 players please give me a shout! > > > > > > Ulli > > > The VAXorcist > > > > > >