OpenVMS/Alpha Games? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Aug 2002

...
  I went looking through the DECUS stuff. On VAX84C
there is ST84 which is
 billed as the ultimate Star Trek game. 
OK, it took some looking through the archive, but knowing it was on the tape
helped (I really wish there was an index for this site).

ftp://mvb.saic.com/disk%24misc/decus/VAX84C/CONSAD/ST84/

It mostly builds under OpenVMS 7.2-1H1/Alpha using Compaq Fortran
V7.4-1341-46ACJ and the /OLD_F77 flag.  Unfortunatly it looks to be missing
at least a few of the files needed to build it (TREK84.FOR, TREK84.FDL, and
the VARDICT.* files at a minimum).

Based on the doc's this looks like a very interesting version!  Unfortunatly
it doesn't seem to be online anywhere else.

...
  Leafing through a catalogue, there's:

 WORLD on V00036
 DODGEM on V00039
 MTREK on V00087 
V00037

Coded in RATFIV?

...
  TREK.BAS on V00282 
Seems to work, and looks interesting

...
  VAXstation games on V00322 (obviously unlikely to be
text based ...)
 UNO on V00401
 HACK on V00526
 An Othello game on VS0175
 DROIDS on VAX91B

 Some of these should be available directly from the decus (now encompass) 
ftp://ftp.decus.org/lib/

			Zane