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.
- -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 two 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.
- - - + + + + + + + +Super Star Trek — a classic computer gameSave 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.
+ +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, 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 git +at the SST +Project Page on berlios.de. It builds and runs. We expect to do +an actual release Real Soon Now.
+ +In the meantime, 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:
+ +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.
+ + + +