I have source on hardcopy of a VSBASIC version of StarTrek from the L.A. Community College District. That one had planets that you had to go into orbit, you had to find ryetalin (that cured some disease), find dilithium crystals if the warp engines were damaged...stuff I've never seen since. The tech support folks used to play games with TSO regions so you could normally never play it (not enough region to compile), but at night one was able to get away with a compile, and we would save the VSBASIC object, and with that we could play anytime.
Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Hoelscher > Sent: Tuesday 17 May 2005 12:04 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Mainframe STAR TREK games? > > When i was a undergrad at Ohio State (1975-76) (Baker Hall, > anyone?), i was able to snag source to a (what is now) a > really old one - it was written in Fortran!! - it played on a > 8x8 quadrant, with each quadrant with 8x8 sectors ... the > enterprise was ++E, the regular klingons were > ++K,, the cruisers were ++C, starbases were <B> .. this was > all played > ++on > a teletype -no CRT screens for us freshmen ... (the program > did not like you if you aimed your photon torpedopes at your > own starbase) - if you got destroyed, you were issued another > ship, the USS Faerie Queene (++Q) - it was great fun (for the > day) - .. i transcribed it to basic for my apple ][+ (with a > Z/80 card) and compiled it... Those were the days ..... > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
