</orderedlist>
<para>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.</para>
<para>If anything is not clear to you, experiment. The worst you can do is
the contents of adjacent sectors.</para>
</sect1>
+<!--
+<sect1><title>Visual Scan</title>
+
+<literallayout>
+Mnemonic: VISUAL
+Shortest abbreviation: V
+</literallayout>
+
+<para>A visual scan is made in a particular direction of three sectors
+in the general direction specified. This takes time, and Klingons can
+attack you, so it should be done only when short-range sensors are
+out.</para>
+
+</sect1>
+-->
<sect1><title>Status Report</title>
<literallayout>
<para>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).</para>
+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.</para>
<para>In order to self-destruct you must remember the password you typed in
at the beginning of the game.</para>
BASIC, in that it used used polar coordinates (a clockface angle
and a distance) for manual navigation.</para>
+<para>Tom Almy writes: "I've received further information that the
+black holes, Tholian web, Super Commander, and Emeritus mode were
+added by Marc Newman."</para>
+
<para>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
</sect1>
<sect1><title>References</title>
+<para>These are the original references by Dave Matuszek and Paul
+Reynolds:</para>
+
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para><citetitle>Star Trek</citetitle> (the original television
series), produced and directed by Gene Rodenberry.</para></listitem>
David Gerrold. Similiar in scope to the above book.
(Bantam)</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para><citetitle>The Star Trek Guide</citetitle>, third revision 4/17/67, by Gene
-Roddenberry. The original writer's guide for the television
-series, but less comprehensive than (3) above.
+<listitem><para><citetitle>The Star Trek Guide</citetitle>, 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)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><citetitle>The Trouble With Tribbles</citetitle>, by
</sect1>
</chapter>
+
+<appendix><title>Setting the Wayback Machine</title>
+
+<para>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.</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>1971 — Mike Mayfield's original BASIC Star
+Trek.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>5 April 1973 — Grady Hicks's BASIC version fot
+the Taurus.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Summer 1973 — Dave Matuszek, Paul Reynolds, and
+the Austin crew begin work on the UT FORTRAN version.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>1974 — Dave Matuszek gets distracted by other
+things, notably a job change and the birth of his first
+child.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>c.1977 — Tom Almy translates the UT FORTAN
+version to PDP-11 FORTRAN.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>21 September 1978 — This was the date on the
+first version Tom Almy saw, on which he based his later C
+translation.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>1979 — Marc Newman adds Tholians, black holes,
+super-commanders, and Emeritus mode.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>1995-1996 — Tom Almy translates his FORTRAN
+port to ANSI C.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>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.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>10 October 2004 — ESR starts hacking on Almy's C
+translation, de-FORTRANIZING the code. HELP/CALL/SOS becomes MAYDAY.
+</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>30 October 2004 — SST2K project started on
+Berlios.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>18 January 2005 — First changes merged in from Stas
+Sergeev. The curses interface is added.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>September 2006 — BSD features merged
+in. Inhabited-worlds features and weighted critical hits date from
+this time.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>9 October 2006 — Translation to
+Python.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>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.</para>
+</appendix>
</book>
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