BASIC Star Trek Games

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2025-01-15 11:00:03

Some of these are already scattered around my other pages and sometimes part of other things, gathering all of it together so I don't keep having to hunt the stuff down. Most of these programs are descended from '70's-era minicomputer and mainframe programs, converted as needed to run them on modern PC's or available simulators and sometimes highly modified to make them work the way I want. Some are not modified and presented as I found them.

As far as I can tell, the material here was derived from public domain material, obtained from public sources and presumed free to distribute, or in the case of the antique operating systems, has been graciously released by the owner for non-commercial use. Star Trek is a registered trademark of CBS Studios Inc. which have nothing to do with any of this. This material is intended only for personal non-commercial use.

Most of the programs from the HP Contributed Users Library ran on larger Time Share BASIC systems such as HP2000C or ACCESS. It's possible to simulate the full system but it's tricky - two instances of the SimH hp2100 simulator have to be running and synchronized with each other, and if the system loses power while running it usually becomes damaged. The HP2000E was a cut-down version that ran on a single CPU, and it was simple enough to rig up a simulation environment for it on a relatively compact 7900 disk image with a utility system on the other side for booting it and fixing it when it didn't get put to sleep.. which only takes one forgetful window close. Although TSB-E only provided a bit over 4KW of memory, its BASIC was similar enough to the full version that interesting programs like STTR1 could be run without too much trouble, just had to break into chunks. The TTYTREK version of Trek was small enough to fit into memory in one chunk and required minimal mods to run.