From 3952466a7c77e236e2ef05589af5a0de889f028f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:11:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added appending on development timeline. --- doc/sst-doc.xml | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/sst-doc.xml b/doc/sst-doc.xml index 5807be7..ecb52aa 100644 --- a/doc/sst-doc.xml +++ b/doc/sst-doc.xml @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ complicated, but you will learn the abbreviations quickly enough. If you are part way through entering a command and you change your -minde, you can cancel the command by typing -1 as one of the +mind, you can cancel the command by typing -1 as one of the parameters, with the exception of the manual move command. If anything is not clear to you, experiment. The worst you can do is @@ -1685,6 +1685,10 @@ in 1973-1974 was like Mayfield's original and most later versions in BASIC, in that it used used polar coordinates (a clockface angle and a distance) for manual navigation. +Tom Almy writes: "I've received further information that the +black holes, Tholian web, Super Commander, and Emeritus mode were +added by Marc Newman." + At the time the UT FORTRAN source was last translated to C it emitted the message "Latest update-21 Sept 78". Thus, it actually predated (and may have influenced) the best-known BASIC version, the "Super @@ -1950,6 +1954,9 @@ derived from a still earlier version in use at Penn State University. References +These are the original references by Dave Matuszek and Paul +Reynolds: + Star Trek (the original television series), produced and directed by Gene Rodenberry. @@ -1969,9 +1976,9 @@ Books) David Gerrold. Similiar in scope to the above book. (Bantam) -The Star Trek Guide, third revision 4/17/67, by Gene -Roddenberry. The original writer's guide for the television -series, but less comprehensive than (3) above. +The Star Trek Guide, third +revision 4/17/67, by Gene Roddenberry. The original writer's guide +for the television series, but less comprehensive than (3) above. (Norway Productions) The Trouble With Tribbles, by @@ -1994,4 +2001,66 @@ shops. + +Setting the Wayback Machine + +SSTK and its ancestors have a long history. One of the +objectives of this project is to make that history available. +Accordingly, here is a timeline of the development of SST2K and +its ancestors, as closely as we can reconstruct it. Someday this +may become the basis for a "wayback machine" switch that enables +feature sets by year. + + +1971 — Mike Mayfield's original BASIC Star +Trek. + +5 April 1973 — Grady Hicks's BASIC version fot +the Taurus. + +Summer 1973 — Dave Matuszek, Paul Reynolds, and +the Austin crew begin work on the UT FORTRAN version. + +1974 — Dave Matuszek gets distracted by other +things, notably a job change and the birth of his first +child. + +c.1977 — Tom Almy translates the UT FORTAN +version to PDP-11 FORTRAN. + +21 September 1978 — This was the date on the +first version Tom Almy saw, on which he based his C +translation. + +1979 — Marc Newman adds Tholians, black holes, +super-commanders, and Emeritus mode. + +1995-1996 — Tom Almy translates his FORTRAN +port to ANSI C. + +1997 — Tom Almy finds the sources for the UT +FORTRAN on the Web and merges in features new since the 1978 version: +EMEXIT, Tholian Web, improved death ray. He adds deep-space probes +from the DECUS version. + +10 October 2004 — ESR starts hacking on Almy's C +translation, de-FORTRANIZING the code. HELP/CALL/SOS becomes MAYDAY. + + +30 October 2004 — SST2K project started on +Berlios. + +18 January 2005 — First changes merged in from Stas +Sergeev. The curses interface is added. + +September 2006 — BSD features merged +in. Inhabited-worlds features and weighted critical hits date from +this time. + + +One as-yet unanswered question is when the code changed from +distance/direction navigation to coordinate offsets. Dave Matuszek +believes it must have been after he stopped working on the game in +1974. + -- 2.31.1