The Classic Super Star Trek Game (michaelburns.net)

1) I love the aesthetics and the game play. First time I learned about this was reading a copy of 101 basic computer games during summer break. I didn't have a computer back then but was fascinated by the book, so I pried my parents until they got me one just so that I could program games.

2) I ported the game to a mobile web app/PWA [1] trying to keep the original feeling, but the lack of a usable keyboard meant the UX had to be drastically changed. Also I'm super-proud of the software architecture I picked which is all event-driven and applies the Model-view-presenter-controller pattern [2]

[1] https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/superstartrek

[2] https://blog.georgovassilis.com/2019/04/14/the-model-view-pr...

This game was everywhere. I played it on IBM MVS in the early 1980s.

Used to love this genre. I have fond memories of a copy of EGA Trek bought for like $10 on a floppy at a bookstore or similar. There was also a text-mode trek-like called BEGIN that was great.

I wrote a TI calculator version that was a fun distraction, and started in on a 486/pentium caliber trek clone, incorporating more of the Berman era Trek themes but never made it too far.

I loved this game as a kid. I played the ega trek version. It really captured my imagination and I have often thought now to extend it by having more active NPCs doing things. Maybe even having science missions. I'm excited to see this again.

Availability of source code under an open source license would enable ports to other platforms.

I like this version here

https://emabolo.itch.io/super-star-trek-25th

I remember playing "EGA Trek" on DOS as a kid, which looked similar to this.

A friend modded it so it would auto target Klingons with torpedoes when you first enter a sector.

Except it was indiscriminate so it would blow up intervening stars and star bases.

Which could kill you in the resulting nova or lose the game for treason.

I translated the Z-Machine port into Spanish as a quick exercise.

Here there is:

https://caja.texto-plano.xyz/anthk/inform6/

There are some other adventure translated into Spanish, too.

I remember playing a really similar game on a friend's Dragon32 a "few" years ago, around 40 years ago.

Also, ESR created super-star-trek.

Here there's a decent mirror. It needs Python to run.

https://jxself.org/git/super-star-trek

I spent many happy hours playing vtrek on my cousin's 3B2:

https://svn.so-much-stuff.com/svn/trunk/cvs/trunk/games.d/vt...

It's really old and I never got it working on more modern operating systems. One of these days...

This game. I went into a hyperfocus frenzy at a birthday party back in the 80s. Played it all night.

"Are you ok swayvil?" "Would you like something to drink?"

Me and certain games back then. Lol. No hope.

It was the first game I ever saw on a computer (it was on a TRS-80). It may well have been the spark that sent me down the path of programming.

WOW. This brings back a FLOOD of memories as one of the first and most favorite games to play as a kid. This an a pirate game the name of which I cannot recall.

Thanks so much for this post.

I thought this was going to be about 3D Trek, a quite terrible but also interesting DOS game made by an individual:

https://dos.zone/3d-trek-1992/

Turns out there's more than a few Trek games for DOS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_games#Comput...

Microsoft Z80 BASIC Version:

https://github.com/linker3000/Z80-Board

I had the Apple II version. One of the first bits of ‘hacking’ I ever did was figuring out how to increase my ship’s energy.

Hey! This was on my first computer, a monochrome 286 before my uncle formatted the hard drive after I broke DOS while messing with files.

Lost most of my games to that, which was the reason I started playing around in QBasic which is why a program today!

This is great. It reminds me of the BASIC program I wrote in the early 90s to simulate a star trek ship's state. Me and my friends would take apart the couch and use other things to build a "bridge" so we could be the crew (almost like a LARP kind of thing), and the "engineer" used the program to help move combat/encounters along. I really wish my younger self had thought to keep it around.

I gasped when I saw this screen, it was the first game I played on a computer, my science teacher's TRS-80 he brought to school. My friend Jim and I would take turns sitting at the keyboard and calling out commands to type. I haven't seen that screen in over 40 years. Later that year I got my first programming job writing some program in basic to track grades for the teacher. Goodness it brings back a flood of memories, the black science lab table the computer was on, the green or was it amber screen, the floppy disk drive thunk when you closed it and the sounds of the drive working. Our excitement when we would destroy an enemy, or make it safely to a space station. What a great time we had with that simple machine.

Ah. My history of favourite ST games are this, then Begin 2 and finally Klingon Academy.

Incidentally, I thought the backup ship was a "Vulcan Cruiser", why rename it?

One of the first games I ever played. My mom was a secretary at a local University and the computer lab manager set 15 (1978-79) year old me up at a paper printing PDP terminal and cut me loose. I would take the paper printouts home and pour over them.

There is something about those colors that brings back my childhood memories of my C-64 and days of BASIC.

Wow, I remember playing this on the Commodore 64! As soon as that screen appeared in my browser I recognized it even though the DOS UI looks a bit different.