Super Star Trek — a classic computer gameThis is the home page of Super Star Trek, a modern Unix port of the -University of Texas "Super Star Trek" game originally written in -FORTRAN in the early 1970s.
- -SST 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, SST retains significant play value. We think it's both fun -and instructive to see how good a game could be written under those -conditions.
- -Presently the code is available only via Subversion -at the SST -Project Page on berlios.de. We expect to do an actual release -before 2004 ends.
- -You can browse the game documentation. -There are two project mailing lists:
- -sst, including support
-for application builders using sst as a component.sst developers.Super Star Trek — a classic computer gameThis is the home page of Super Star Trek, a modern Unix port of the +University of Texas "Super Star Trek" game originally written in +FORTRAN in the early 1970s.
+ +SST 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, SST retains significant play value. We think it's both fun +and instructive to see how good a game could be written under those +conditions.
+ +Presently the code is available only via Subversion +at the SST +Project Page on berlios.de. We expect to do an actual release +in Spring 2005.
+ +In the mean time, you can at least browse the game +documentation. + +
You can read the project's to-do list.
If +you want to help with these things, here are the project mailing +lists: + + + +Tom Almy, one of the SST project founders, has an SST page of his own.
+ +If this game interested you, you may want to check out some of the +other ancient games at the Retrocomputing Museum.
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