BASIC games -- was Re: HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

30 Nov 2003

On Nov 27, 22:12, Kelly Fergason wrote:
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  Pete Turnbull wrote: 
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  >Did you find it?  Yes, it's two programs,
which I found on Al Kossow's
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  >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
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  >to Eric Smith, whose tsbextract and tsbdecode
programs I adapted). 
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  Those are it...  Cool.   I see some time-wasting ahead
for me, as if I
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  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
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  like the adventure games that
 came later, 'fire phasers', etc.  The source was protected, so you could
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  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?

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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