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 <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
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, <
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> 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