I don't know that this game was an ASCII game. The first time that I saw it was the MS-DOS versions egatrek and vgatrek.
Star Trek 1971 Text Game (2008)
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Re: Star Trek 1971 Text Game (2008)
#22If you like this kind of thing, try to find copies of books by Dave Ahl - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Computer_Games I like this kind of thing and I have both books. A family friend CP/M system was by first gaming experience and I played all of them. The Star Trek here exists in a sort of copyright limbo, CBS obviously didn't license it but it was too popular to squash. I remember seeing ports of this to A…
The 1978 edition of BASIC Computer Games did have permission from Paramount to use the Star Trek trademarks, but this probably doesn't apply to ports. http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=15...
Re: Star Trek 1971 Text Game (2008)
#23What is the modern day equivalent to this? So many have commented that this was their first (and mine too!) exposure to computers. Something in php? Rails?
Minecraft. Unreal engine modding. And so on ..
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#24How to play this game? .. i downloaded the source but cannot run it..? is there any interface that i require?
I would assume that csc.exe will compile it on windows, otherwise you will need to install mono
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#25This is the first computer game I ever played. My mom was a secretary at a local university, and there was a computer lab across the hall from her office. I'd go there after school to wait for a ride home, and someone logged me in and set me on my way. This was all on paper-feed terminals and I'd take the stack of printout homes and read through each game over and over. This is when I fell in love with computers. In…
This was also the first computer game I ever played! It was on an HP 2000 computer running timeshared BASIC from a clunky teletype, in the early 1970s. The best part was that you could just type "LIST" and it would print out all the BASIC code - all the games on that machine were open source! If the Klingons beat you, you'd get this disheartening message, which I remember to this day: "The Enterprise has been destroy…
I remember all three, my father used to leave me at the console when he would take me to work on the weekends at IBM. Not sure that was system 3 or not.
Between that and reams of green bar to use at home for "artwork" I found my fascination with computers. Didn't hurt we had first generation IBM PCs and before then my father had about everything heath kit put out.
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#26> This is an artifact of BASIC. It doesn’t really have an effect in C#. In BASIC, just as in C#, the randomizer could have been initialized based off the system time. If that was not an option, they should have taken advantage of the instructions prompt.
User inputted seeds were in a lot of classic text based, randomly generated games - by sharing the seed with friends, you could play through exactly the same game and see who did it better. Multiplayer!
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#27> This is an artifact of BASIC. It doesn’t really have an effect in C#. In BASIC, just as in C#, the randomizer could have been initialized based off the system time. If that was not an option, they should have taken advantage of the instructions prompt. User inputted seeds were in a lot of classic text based, randomly generated games - by sharing the seed with friends, you could play through exactly the same game an…
I like how he blindly assumes that there was a "system time", or that there was a way to asynchronously poll for keyboard input. At least on the Apple II I grew up with, timekeeping required third-party hardware, and the only way to get user-input without writing assembly was INPUT, which paused the program until the user typed something and hit Return.
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#28I played this on an ICL One Per Desk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Per_Desk), sometime in the mid-80s. I loved it.
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#29This is the first computer game I ever played. My mom was a secretary at a local university, and there was a computer lab across the hall from her office. I'd go there after school to wait for a ride home, and someone logged me in and set me on my way. This was all on paper-feed terminals and I'd take the stack of printout homes and read through each game over and over. This is when I fell in love with computers. In…
I have a similar relationship to this game. As kids, my brother and I would stop by the computer lab at Peru State College and, when lucky, someone would dial the line printer terminal into Omaha. The few printouts we accumulated were treasured artifacts.
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#30This is the first computer game I ever played. My mom was a secretary at a local university, and there was a computer lab across the hall from her office. I'd go there after school to wait for a ride home, and someone logged me in and set me on my way. This was all on paper-feed terminals and I'd take the stack of printout homes and read through each game over and over. This is when I fell in love with computers. In…
I believe 'Hunt the Wumpus' was the first game I played, but quickly followed by star trek. And then 'Eliza.' Geez, takes me back.
Star Trek was great because you could really lose yourself in it for a while. It was the start of my horrible game addiction!