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@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ complicated, but you will learn the abbreviations quickly enough.
If you are part way through entering a command and you change your
-minde, you can cancel the command by typing -1 as one of the
+mind, you can cancel the command by typing -1 as one of the
parameters, with the exception of the manual move command.
If anything is not clear to you, experiment. The worst you can do is
@@ -411,6 +411,21 @@ short-range scan anytime you like.
the contents of adjacent sectors.
+
Status Report
@@ -1102,7 +1117,8 @@ Mnemonic: DESTRUCT
You may self-destruct, thus killing yourself and ending the game. If
there are nearby Klingons, you may take a few of them with you (the
-more energy you have left, the bigger the bang).
+more energy you have left, the bigger the bang). It is possible to
+win this way, if you kill off your last adversaries with the blast.
In order to self-destruct you must remember the password you typed in
at the beginning of the game.
@@ -1669,6 +1685,10 @@ in 1973-1974 was like Mayfield's original and most later versions in
BASIC, in that it used used polar coordinates (a clockface angle
and a distance) for manual navigation.
+Tom Almy writes: "I've received further information that the
+black holes, Tholian web, Super Commander, and Emeritus mode were
+added by Marc Newman."
+
At the time the UT FORTRAN source was last translated to C it emitted
the message "Latest update-21 Sept 78". Thus, it actually predated
(and may have influenced) the best-known BASIC version, the "Super
@@ -1934,6 +1954,9 @@ derived from a still earlier version in use at Penn State University.
References
+These are the original references by Dave Matuszek and Paul
+Reynolds:
+
Star Trek (the original television
series), produced and directed by Gene Rodenberry.
@@ -1953,9 +1976,9 @@ Books)
David Gerrold. Similiar in scope to the above book.
(Bantam)
-The Star Trek Guide, third revision 4/17/67, by Gene
-Roddenberry. The original writer's guide for the television
-series, but less comprehensive than (3) above.
+The Star Trek Guide, third
+revision 4/17/67, by Gene Roddenberry. The original writer's guide
+for the television series, but less comprehensive than (3) above.
(Norway Productions)
The Trouble With Tribbles, by
@@ -1978,4 +2001,69 @@ shops.
+
+Setting the Wayback Machine
+
+SST2K and its ancestors have a long history. One of the
+objectives of this project is to make that history available.
+Accordingly, here is a timeline of the development of SST2K and
+its ancestors, as closely as we can reconstruct it. Someday this
+may become the basis for a "wayback machine" switch that enables
+feature sets by year.
+
+
+1971 — Mike Mayfield's original BASIC Star
+Trek.
+
+5 April 1973 — Grady Hicks's BASIC version fot
+the Taurus.
+
+Summer 1973 — Dave Matuszek, Paul Reynolds, and
+the Austin crew begin work on the UT FORTRAN version.
+
+1974 — Dave Matuszek gets distracted by other
+things, notably a job change and the birth of his first
+child.
+
+c.1977 — Tom Almy translates the UT FORTAN
+version to PDP-11 FORTRAN.
+
+21 September 1978 — This was the date on the
+first version Tom Almy saw, on which he based his later C
+translation.
+
+1979 — Marc Newman adds Tholians, black holes,
+super-commanders, and Emeritus mode.
+
+1995-1996 — Tom Almy translates his FORTRAN
+port to ANSI C.
+
+1997 — Tom Almy finds the sources for UT
+FORTRAN on the Web and merges in features new since the 1978 version:
+EMEXIT, Tholian Web, improved death ray. He adds deep-space probes
+from the DECUS version.
+
+10 October 2004 — ESR starts hacking on Almy's C
+translation, de-FORTRANIZING the code. HELP/CALL/SOS becomes MAYDAY.
+
+
+30 October 2004 — SST2K project started on
+Berlios.
+
+18 January 2005 — First changes merged in from Stas
+Sergeev. The curses interface is added.
+
+September 2006 — BSD features merged
+in. Inhabited-worlds features and weighted critical hits date from
+this time.
+
+9 October 2006 — Translation to
+Python.
+
+
+One as-yet unanswered question is when the code changed from
+distance/direction navigation to coordinate offsets. Dave Matuszek
+believes it must have been after he stopped working on the game in
+1974.
+