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20 <h1 align='center'><code>Super Star Trek</code> — a classic computer game</h1>
22 <p>This is the home page of Super Star Trek, a modern Unix port of the
23 University of Texas "Super Star Trek" game originally written in
24 FORTRAN in the early 1970s.</p>
26 <p>SST is a kind of time machine back to what interactive programs were
27 like in the days of hardcopy terminals, before graphics and before
28 even video displays. Despite this archaism and decades after it was
29 written, SST retains significant play value. We think it's both fun
30 and instructive to see how good a game could be written under those
33 <p>Presently the code is available only via <a
34 href='https://developer.berlios.de/svn/?group_id=2492'>Subversion</a>
35 at the <a href='https://developer.berlios.de/projects/sst/'>SST
36 Project Page</a> on berlios.de. It builds and runs. We expect to do
37 an actual release Real Soon Now.</p>
39 <p>In the mean time, you can at least browse the <a href='sst-doc.html'>game
42 <p>You can read the project's <a href='TODO'>to-do list</a>.</p> If
43 you want to help with these things, here are the project mailing
48 href="https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sst-users">sst-users</a>
49 is for questions and technical support on <code>sst</code>.</p></li>
52 href="https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sst-devel">sst-dev</a>
53 is for <code>sst</code> developers.</p></li>
56 href="https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sst-commit-watch">sst-commit-watch</a>
57 carries notifications of commits to the Subversion archive. It is
58 recommended that developers subscribe to this.</p></li> </ul>
61 <p>Tom Almy, one of the SST project founders, has <a
62 href='http://www.almy.us/sst.html'>an SST page of his own</a>.</p>
64 <p>There is a <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Star_Trek'>Wikipedia
67 <p>For a truly retro-Trek experience, see the <a
68 href='http://www.calormen.com/Star_Trek/ASCII/'>Star Trek ASCII Art
71 <p>If this game interested you, you may want to check out some of the
72 other ancient games at the <a
73 href='http://www.catb.org/retro/'>Retrocomputing Museum</a>.</p>