Curses Interface By
Stas Sergeev
- SST 2K polishing and historical research by
+ SST2K polishing and historical research by
Eric S. Raymond
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a lot more meaningful to you.</para>
<para>You have weapons: phasers and photon torpedoes. You have a defense:
-deflector shields. You can look at things: long-range scaners,
+deflector shields. You can look at things: long-range scanners,
short-range scanners, and a star chart. You can move about, under
warp drive or impulse power. You can also dock at a starbase, rest
while repairs are being made, abandon ship, self destruct, or give up
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<chapter><title>Starting the Game</title>
+<!-- This chapter is new in SST 2K -->
<para>The program will ask you some setup questions. You can give it
command-line arguments that will be treated as answers. Any token
<para>The fourth question, new in SST2K, sets your game options. A
blank answer or 'fancy' enables all SST2K features. The option
-'plain' disables a number of features (Tholians, planets &
-dilithium, Thingies shooting back, deep-space-probes, Klingon ramming
-and movement, time-warping through black holes, death-ray upgrade),
-approximating the original CDC 6600 FORTRAN game from UT Austin. The
-option 'almy' approximates Tom Almy's C translation from 1979,
-disabling Thingies shooting back, base shields, and time-warping
-through black holes.</para>
+'plain' approximated the original CDC 6600 FORTRAN game from UT Austin
+and disables a number of features: Tholians, planets & dilithium,
+Thingies shooting back, deep-space-probes, Klingon ramming and
+movement, time-warping through black holes, death-ray
+upgrade. inhabited worlds. The option 'almy' approximates Tom Almy's
+C translation from 1979, disabling Thingies shooting back, base
+shields, time-warping through black holes, and inhabited
+worlds.</para>
</chapter>
<chapter><title>How To Issue Commands</title>
or more commands begin with the same letter, and in this case that
letter refers to a particular one of the commands; to get the other,
your abbreviation must be two or more characters long. This sounds
-complicated, but you will learn the abbreviations qGuickly enough.</para>
+complicated, but you will learn the abbreviations quickly enough.</para>
<para>What this all boils down to is:</para>
There are ordinary Klingons (K) at sectors 5 - 8 and 6 - 2, and a
Klingon Commander (C) at 9 - 9. The (GULP)
<quote>Super-commander</quote> (S) is occupies sector 4 - 4, and a
-Romulan (R) is at 1 - 6. A planet (P) is at sector 7 - 6. There are
+Romulan (R) is at 1 - 6. An uninhabited planet (P) is at sector 7 - 6
+(if it were inhabited, it would display as a '@'). There are
also a large number of stars (*). The periods (.) are just empty
space—they are printed to help you get your bearings. Sector 6
- 4 contains a black hole ( ).</para>
<para>If your short-range sensors are damaged, this command will only show
the contents of adjacent sectors.</para>
+
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<sect1><title>Status Report</title>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
-<term>LIFE SUPPOR</term>
+<term>LIFE SUPPORT</term>
<listitem>
<para>If <quote>ACTIVE</quote> then life support systems are functioning
normally. If on <quote>RESERVES</quote> the number is how many stardates your
reserve food, air, etc. will last—you must get repairs made or get to
-starbase before your reserves run out.</para>
+a starbase before your reserves run out.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<para>Long-range scans are free. They use up no energy or time, and can be
done safely regardless of battle conditions.</para>
+
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Star Chart</title>
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<para>As you proceed in the game, you learn more and more about what things
-are where in the galaxy. When ever you first do a scan in a quadrant,
+are where in the galaxy. Whenever you first do a scan in a quadrant,
telemetry sensors are ejected which will report any changes in the
quadrant(s) back to your ship, providing the sub-space radio is
working. Spock will enter this information in the chart. If the radio
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Mnemonic: REST
Shortest abbreviation: R
-Full command: REST <NUMBER OF STARDATES>
+Full command: REST <NUMBER-OF-STARDATES>
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<para>This command simply allows the specified number of stardates to go
until repairs are made before you go back into battle.</para>
<para>It is not generally advisable to rest while you are under attack by
-Klingons.</para>
+Klingons or Romulans.</para>
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<sect1><title>Call Starbase for Help</title>
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<para>[Originally, this command was called <quote>HELP</quote>, but
-these days that might be misconstrued as an attempt to browae built-in
+these days that might be misconstrued as an attempt to browse built-in
documentation! In some later versions it was CALL.]</para>
<para>When you get into serious trouble, you may call a starbase for
Shortest abbreviation: PL
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-<para>Mr. Spock presents you a list of the available information on planets
-in the galaxy. Since planets do not show up on long-range scans, the
-only way to obtain this information is with the <quote>SENSORS</quote> command.</para>
+<para>Mr. Spock presents you a list of the available information on
+planets in the galaxy which are potential dilithium sources. Since
+planets do not show up on long-range scans, the only way to obtain
+this information is with the <quote>SENSORS</quote> command.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="freeze"><title>Freeze</title>
promotion available if you go beyond the <quote>Expert</quote> range.
You can also have a certificate of merit printed with your name, date,
and Klingon kill rate, provided you are promoted from either the
-<quote>Expert</quote> or <quote>Emeritus</quote> levels. This
-<quote>plaque</quote> requires a 132 column printer. You may need
+<quote>Expert</quote> or <quote>Emeritus</quote> levels. You may need
print the certificate to a file, import it into your word processor,
selecting Courier 8pt font, and then print in <quote>landscape
orientation</quote>.</para>
+<!-- The plaque used to require an 132 column printer. Stas changed that. -->
</chapter>
<chapter><title>Handy Reference Page</title>
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