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Description: Super Star Trek, a timeless classic of computer games
Save the Federation from the invading Klingons! Visit exotic planets and
strip-mine them for dilithium! Encounter mysterious space thingies!
- This is the classic Super Star Trek game from the days of slow teletypes,
- reloaded.
+.
+ SST2K is a modern Unix port of the University of Texas "Star
+ Trek" game originally written in FORTRAN in the mid-1970s. It has
+ options to restrict its feature set to what was in earlier versions.
+.
+ SST2K is a kind of time machine back to what interactive programs were
+ like in the days of hardcopy terminals, before graphics and before
+ even video displays. Despite this archaism and decades after it was
+ written, SST2K retains significant play value. We think it's both fun
+ and instructive to see how good a game could be written under those
+ conditions.
+.
+ SST is fairly closely related to Eric Allman's BSD Trek, which also started
+ life as a C translation of UT Super Star Trek. BSD Trek is missing most of
+ the post-1978 features of SST2K, but does add a cloaking device for the
+ Romulans and the option to take Klingon captives. These have been back-ported
+ into this version.
+.
+ The only other really current Star Trek port we know of is
+ OpenTrek,
+ which appears to be set in the ST:TNG universe (featuring the Borg
+ Collective as the villains) and has a fancy graphical interface.
+.
+ (There are also some multi-player Trek variants out there, notably
+ XTrek and NetTrek, that have a very different feel from any of the
+ Trek solitaires.)
+.
+ For a truly retro-Trek experience, see the Star Trek ASCII Art
+ Archive.
Homepage: http://www.catb.org/~esr/super-star-trek
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