Topic: Great Great Grandaddy of SFC. (Read 2659 times)

Alphageek · « **on:** December 15, 2006, 02:08:13 pm »

I can remember playing this game when I was in high school, back in the late 80's. It's really bare bones, but this was state of the art for starship combat at the time. Enjoy.

http://www.andy3ware.com/startrek/

Sirgod · « **Reply #1 on:** December 15, 2006, 04:31:23 pm »

Wow that takes me back...

Hey Is this Open source? I only ask, as we frown upon piracy here.

stephen

Klingon Fanatic · « **Reply #2 on:** December 15, 2006, 05:56:06 pm »

I remember playing a Trek game with the letter 'E' vs Letter 'K's and asterisks were torpedoes you fired at them... In the early 1980s.

KF

Alphageek · « **Reply #3 on:** December 15, 2006, 07:07:37 pm »

Quote from: Stephen NCC -73070 on December 15, 2006, 04:31:23 pm

Wow that takes me back...

Hey Is this Open source? I only ask, as we frown upon piracy here.

stephen

As far as I know it's shareware at this point. Shareware was one of the search parameters I put into Google when I was looking for this.

Klingon Fanatic, I'm almost certain I played that version of Star Trek computer game as well. Very primitive.

Dfly · « **Reply #4 on:** December 15, 2006, 08:30:45 pm »

Klingon Fanatic, I know I played that one, many many times, back in 1980.

Bartok · « **Reply #5 on:** December 15, 2006, 10:10:15 pm »

WOW -

that takes me back as well - late 80's early 90's I had a flavor of that, been so long. Remember when u could buy whole games that fit on a single 1.44 floppy

I think I also vaguely remember a Star Trek for the radio shack TRS-80 which had the wonderful cassette drive !!!! how long ago was that omigosh....

IAF Lyrkiller · « **Reply #6 on:** December 16, 2006, 01:35:10 am »

Yep, it takes me back also. I do have a game that is similar and it is an variant call Starfleet I: The War Begins.

I did have for my C-64 and was very good on it. The PC version is a little better.

It is available somewhere for free.

Alphageek · « **Reply #7 on:** December 16, 2006, 05:36:42 am »

Quote from: Bartok on December 15, 2006, 10:10:15 pm

WOW -

that takes me back as well - late 80's early 90's I had a flavor of that, been so long. Remember when u could buy whole games that fit on a single 1.44 floppy

I think I also vaguely remember a Star Trek for the radio shack TRS-80 which had the wonderful cassette drive !!!! how long ago was that omigosh....

Cassette drive. Wow, that takes me back. I haven't seen that since I had a TI 99. Anyone remember learning to program in BASIC?

Farfarer · « **Reply #8 on:** December 16, 2006, 03:51:37 pm »

Well, it was board game, but I think Lou Zocci's Starfleet game in the 70's was the earliest I saw. Photons only tore a hole in a shields, then phasers did the damage.

KBF-Crim · « **Reply #9 on:** December 16, 2006, 04:26:00 pm »

Quote from: Alphageek on December 16, 2006, 05:36:42 am

Quote from: Bartok on December 15, 2006, 10:10:15 pm
WOW -

that takes me back as well - late 80's early 90's I had a flavor of that, been so long. Remember when u could buy whole games that fit on a single 1.44 floppy

I think I also vaguely remember a Star Trek for the radio shack TRS-80 which had the wonderful cassette drive !!!! how long ago was that omigosh....

Cassette drive. Wow, that takes me back. I haven't seen that since I had a TI 99. Anyone remember learning to program in BASIC?

LOL....yep...BASIC...the wave of the future....

Dfly · « **Reply #10 on:** December 16, 2006, 04:31:52 pm »

Programming in Basic? lol. I was there before anyone was able to teach us in school. In 1980, we received at our school 3 Comodore 64 computers. No teacher was qualified, or had even seen a computer in their lives.
They allowed me, and 3 others, the use of the computers, but only after classes. It was the hopes of the teachers that we would perhaps learn how they worked, let alone do anything with them. One of the very FIRST things we did was incoorporate the Star Trek game into it. After that, we had something to do, along with the Aliens game we had installed.
The computers only came in in January, and by June we had written the programs that produced the sheets used for the next 20 years for school registrations. We had written the whole program from basic. In 2000 the inscription sheets were finally changed to meet the new demands of the school boards.
Basic, loved it, still use it from time to time. Unfortunately most of it is forgotten art.

FPF-Tobin Dax · « **Reply #11 on:** December 16, 2006, 05:28:44 pm »

Quote from: Alphageek on December 16, 2006, 05:36:42 am

Quote from: Bartok on December 15, 2006, 10:10:15 pm
WOW -

that takes me back as well - late 80's early 90's I had a flavor of that, been so long. Remember when u could buy whole games that fit on a single 1.44 floppy

I think I also vaguely remember a Star Trek for the radio shack TRS-80 which had the wonderful cassette drive !!!! how long ago was that omigosh....

Cassette drive. Wow, that takes me back. I haven't seen that since I had a TI 99. Anyone remember learning to program in BASIC?

I still have my Atari 400 computer in the basement along with the caasette drive. I always got a kick out of hearing the pulses/tones as frogger loaded up. It sounded like electronic burping. I had a book and probably still do with it on how to learn basic. I never got much beyond programming simple animations and sound, like seaguls flying over the ocean with sounds of surf and the birds chirping.

I also still have my mattel intelivsion with voice module. I played space spartans a ton with that.

We have 2 colecovisions as we each brought one into the marriage and I have the star trek game for it. You shoot klingons in one round and go after nomad in a minefield in another. There was an arcade version of this that I saw in a bowling alley once.

IAF Lyrkiller · « **Reply #12 on:** December 16, 2006, 07:03:33 pm »

I still have my C-64 w/ 3 fdds. one was a 3 1/2 and the other two were 5 1/4.

I do miss playing Tigers in the Snow though.

Sirgod · « **Reply #13 on:** December 16, 2006, 07:23:12 pm »

Quote from: CayneG on December 16, 2006, 07:03:33 pm

I still have my C-64 w/ 3 fdds. one was a 3 1/2 and the other two were 5 1/4.

I do miss playing Tigers in the Snow though.

Not only do I have the ole C-64, I also have the old 128, and the Amiga 500. I tease Scott Bruno over that one, as he wrote code years ago, on the amiga.

My god, we actually have a thread where we are getting all curmudegeonly over old systems.

stephen

NuclearWessels · « **Reply #14 on:** December 16, 2006, 08:28:57 pm »

Quote from: Stephen NCC -73070 on December 16, 2006, 07:23:12 pm

Quote from: CayneG on December 16, 2006, 07:03:33 pm
I still have my C-64 w/ 3 fdds. one was a 3 1/2 and the other two were 5 1/4.

I do miss playing Tigers in the Snow though.

Not only do I have the ole C-64, I also have the old 128, and the Amiga 500. I tease Scott Bruno over that one, as he wrote code years ago, on the amiga.

My god, we actually have a thread where we are getting all curmudegeonly over old systems.

stephen

Punch cards, decwriters, the trash-80 ... <sigh> the good ol' days

Actually I think I've had to learn at least one new language a year for the past 22 years, and (nearly) all of them have been both fun and useful. keesp teh brian form getitng rusyt

dave

Dfly · « **Reply #15 on:** December 16, 2006, 09:50:17 pm »

getting all nostalgic, and to think someone would dock me a Karma recently, oh well, thems the breaks.

I remember playing on my Atari 2600, and the coolest game back then was one where you had a bow and arrows only as a weapon, and went around under a pyramid, from level to level killing the bad monsters till you found the exit at the bottom.

Alphageek · « **Reply #16 on:** December 17, 2006, 02:38:34 am »

I was a Defender freak on the Atari 2600. They also had a game called Yar's Revenge, which was the COOLEST. The sounds were so freaky that they added to how awesome the game was.

Farfarer · « **Reply #17 on:** December 20, 2006, 10:05:15 am »

Punch cards and FORTRAN IV in 1974. We had to send our cards away from High School on Monday, and get the printouts back on Friday. One screw up and you lost a week. READ (1,3) and the infinite Do Loop error... that's nostralgia...

Alphageek · « **Reply #18 on:** December 20, 2006, 12:48:31 pm »

Ha! I got Univac for Christmas one year, on surplus.

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