Oh Man!!! I thought I was the only one who remembered this book fondly!

Alas, I've lost my copy of this book. I hope I can find another some day... (Can you send me ISBN Information?)

Thanks for the title and author, that should help a lot... I think something like this would make a WONDERFUL type of attraction. Where people would pay to spend a day in the Simulator and go "Exploring". What's missing in a lot of the Computer Games today, is just the fun of exploring... Not just blowing up Borg or Klingons and the like... Like Starflight I or II... Even Escape Velocity on the Mac is fun, because you don't have to go battling, you can just go around trading and building up your ship...

Regards, Al From: Alan Greenstreet <aeg(a)paradise.net.nz> > > A slightly older networked "game" I know of was > written by Roger Garrett and published in > "Interface Age" magazine in the August / > September / October 1977 issues. It was then > followed by a comprehensive book in 1978 (which I > have). There is a complete programme structure for > a networked game - rather ambitiously titled > "Star Ship Simulation" and based on the previous > 1975 books detailing the Star Trek Enterprise > design blueprints and Star Fleet Technical > Manual. Each computer is one of the main bridge > stations; Science, Engineering, Weapons, Navigation, > Communications etc. > > I have read through most of the book and it is > suggested that the programme could be written in > Fortran, Basic or Machine Code - depending on the > choice of the programmer. I have never seen or > heard of this programme running. Has anyone else > come across it? > > Alan