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.
+Save the Federation from the invading Klingons! Visit exotic +planets and strip-mine them for dilithium! Encounter mysterious space +thingies! This is the home page of the classic Super Star Trek game +from the days of slow teletypes, reloaded.
-SST is a kind of time machine back to what interactive programs were +
SST2K is a modern Unix port of the University of Texas "Super Star +Trek" game originally written in FORTRAN in the mid-1970s. It has +options to restrict its feature set to what was in earlier versions.
+ +SST2K 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 +written, SST2K 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 +href='ssh://git.berlios.de/gitroot/sst'>git at the SST -Project Page on berlios.de. We expect to do an actual release -in Spring 2005.
+Project Page on berlios.de. It builds and runs. We expect to do +an actual release Real Soon Now. -In the mean time, you can at least browse the game
+ In the meantime, you can at least browse the game
documentation.
- You can read the project's to-do list. You can read the project's to-do list. If
+you want to help with these things, here are the project mailing
lists:
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is for questions and technical support on sst.
sst developers.Tom Almy, one of the SST project founders, has an SST page of his own.
+There is a Wikipedia +entry.
+ +SST is fairly closely related to Eric Allman's BSD Trek, which also started +life as a C translation of UT Super Star Trek. BSD Trek is missing most of +the post-1978 features of SST2K, but does add a cloaking device for the +Romulans.
+ +The only other really current Star Trek port we know of is +OpenTrek, +which appears to be set in the ST:TNG universe (featuring the Borg +Collective as the villains) and has a fancy graphical interface.
+ +(There are also some multi-player Trek variants out there, notably +XTrek and NetTrek, that have a very different feel from any of the +Trek solitaires.)
+ +For a truly retro-Trek experience, see the Star Trek ASCII Art +Archive.
+If this game interested you, you may want to check out some of the other ancient games at the Retrocomputing Museum.