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7 Package: super-star-trek
9 Description: Super Star Trek, a timeless classic of computer games
10 Save the Federation from the invading Klingons! Visit exotic planets and
11 strip-mine them for dilithium! Encounter mysterious space thingies!
13 SST2K is a modern Unix port of the University of Texas "Star
14 Trek" game originally written in FORTRAN in the mid-1970s. It has
15 options to restrict its feature set to what was in earlier versions.
17 SST2K is a kind of time machine back to what interactive programs were
18 like in the days of hardcopy terminals, before graphics and before
19 even video displays. Despite this archaism and decades after it was
20 written, SST2K retains significant play value. We think it's both fun
21 and instructive to see how good a game could be written under those
24 SST is fairly closely related to Eric Allman's BSD Trek, which also started
25 life as a C translation of UT Super Star Trek. BSD Trek is missing most of
26 the post-1978 features of SST2K, but does add a cloaking device for the
27 Romulans and the option to take Klingon captives. These have been back-ported
30 The only other really current Star Trek port we know of is
31 <a href='http://shankel.best.vwh.net/opentrek.html'>OpenTrek</a>,
32 which appears to be set in the ST:TNG universe (featuring the Borg
33 Collective as the villains) and has a fancy graphical interface.
35 (There are also some multi-player Trek variants out there, notably
36 XTrek and NetTrek, that have a very different feel from any of the
39 For a truly retro-Trek experience, see the <a
40 href='http://www.calormen.com/Star_Trek/ASCII/'>Star Trek ASCII Art
43 Homepage: http://www.catb.org/~esr/super-star-trek
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