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-<!ENTITY sst-site "http://sst.berlios.de/">
+<!ENTITY sst-site "http://catb.org/~esr/super-star-trek/">
<!ENTITY retro "http://catb.org/~esr/retro/">
]>
<book>
<para>Phasers have no effect on starbases (which are shielded) or on
stars.</para>
+</sect1>
+<sect1><title>Cloak</title>
+
+<literallayout>
+ Mnemonic: CLOAK
+ Shortest abbreviation: CLOAK
+ Full commands: CLOAK ON
+ CLOAK OFF
+</literallayout>
+
+<para>The cloaking device prevents your ship from being seen by any enemy
+vessels. When the cloaking device is in use, your subspace radio will
+not receive transmissions, torpedoes will be less accurate, you cannot
+dock, and you cannot use your warp engines. Enemy ships will get a
+chance to attack you when you turn cloaking on.</para>
+
+<para>The Treaty of Algeron with the Romulans in Stardate 2311 prohibits the
+use of cloaking devices. If a Romulan ship observes you cloaking or
+uncloaking after this point in time you will be in violation, which
+will hurt your final score.</para>
+
+<para>The Faerie Queene does not have a cloaking device.</para>
+
+</sect1>
+<sect1><title>Capture</title>
+
+<literallayout>
+Mnemonic: CAPTURE
+Shortest abbreviation: CA
+Full commands: CAPTURE
+</literallayout>
+
+<para>Ask a Klingon To surrender.</para>
+
+<para>The capture command provides a more humane way to end a battle than
+just destroying the Klingon battleship with the crew aboard. Assuming
+the subspace radio and transporter are working, and there is room in
+the brig, this command will ask the captain of the weakest Klingon
+ship in the quadrant to surrender. If the captain agrees, some of the
+crew will transport to your ship and the Klingon ship will be
+destroyed. This command does take time and you will be attacked by any
+other enemy ships if the surrender occurs.</para>
+
+<para>When you dock, any captured Klingons will be transferred to the base
+and you will be credited with the lives you save.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Report</title>
<para>This command reads the appropriate section from the SST.DOC file,
providing the file is in the current directory.</para>
+</sect1>
+<sect1><title>Curses switch</title>
+
+<literallayout>
+Mnemonic: CURSES
+Full command: CURSES
+</literallayout>
+
+<para>Switch from tty to curses interface. Mainly useful for
+debugging, when continuing a replayed game.</para>
+
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter><title>Miscellaneous Notes</title>
ABBREV FULL COMMAND DEVICE USED
------ ------------ -----------
ABANDON ABANDON shuttle craft
+ CA CAPTURE subspace radio and transporter
C CHART (none)
CO COMPUTER computer
CR CRYSTALS (none)
ST STATUS (none)
T TRANSPORT transporter
W WARP <FACTOR> (none)
-
+ CU CURSES (none)
+
L. R. Scan: thousands digit: supernova
hundreds digit: Klingons
tens digit: starbases
<para>The original Star Trek seems to have been written by Mike
Mayfield at the beginning of the 1970s. His first version was in
BASIC for a Sigma 7 in 1971; in 1972 he rewrote it in Hewlett Packard
-BASIC. The source is <ulink
-url="&sst-site;www/historic/mayfield.basic">available</ulink> on the
-SST2K website. In January 1975 it became part of the DECUS library
-under the name <ulink
+BASIC. The source is included in the SST2K repository. In January
+1975 it became part of the DECUS library under the name <ulink
url='http://www.trailing-edge.com/~shoppa/decus/110174.html'>SPACWR</ulink>.</para>
<para>While some people claim to have recollections of playing Trek
from Ahl's SPACWR. The header says "GENERAL IDEA STOLEN FROM
PENN. U.", and the game has several features not present in SPACEWR:
notably, the Death Ray, ramming, and the Klingon summons to surrender.
-And, of course, it predates Ahl's book. The source is <ulink
-url="&sst-site;www/historic/UT-Trek.basic">available</ulink> on the
-SST2K website.</para>
+And, of course, it predates Ahl's book. The source is included in the
+SST2K repository.</para>
<para>Dave Matuszek, Paul Reynolds et. al. at UT Austin played the
Hicks version on a CDC6600, but disliked the long load time and
<para>The DECUS version had a Deep Space Probe. Looked like a good idea
so I implemented it based on its description.</para>
+<para>I imported CAPTURE from BSD Trek.</para>
+
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Stas Sergeev's story</title>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-<para>My changes got merged into SST2K in 2005, and I work on it now.</para>
+<para>My changes got merged into SST2K in 2005.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Eric Raymond's story</title>
<listitem><para>
I've cleaned up a lot of grubby FORTRANisms in the code internals —
used sizeof(), replaced magic numeric constants with #defines,
-that sort of thing.
+that sort of thing. Later I translated the code from C to Python.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
I fixed a surprising number of typos in the code and documentation.
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
+first FORTRAN version Tom Almy saw, on which he based his later C
translation.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>1979 — Marc Newman adds Tholians, black holes,
<listitem><para>9 October 2006 — Translation to
Python.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>1 March 2017 — Color added.
+Cloaking device and capture command added from BSD (via Almy's
+2013 version)</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>25 March 2019 — At long last, chart entries are
+uniformly dot-filled. (Suppressed in the plain and almy
+interface styles.)</para></listitem>
+
+
</itemizedlist>
<para>One as-yet unanswered question is when the code changed from
projects / super-star-trek.git / blobdiff