> The Treaty of Algeron with the Romulans in Stardate 2311 prohibits the use of cloaking devices. If a Romulan ship observes you cloaking or uncloaking after this point in time you will be in violation, which will hurt your final score.
I remember playing Star Trek on HP teletypes connected to the Peoria mainframe in the high school math lab. Jeez we burned through a lot of paper.
A friend modded a version to automatically fire photon torpedoes when you entered a sector with Klingons. It calc'd the trajectory so it never missed.
Of course the downside was the blow back if you shot one right next to you. Or if there was a star in the way. Or there were >3 Klingons that would hammer you while the computer is cycling through the auto firing sequence.
(It is actually not emscripten -- it uses a z-machine emulator I adapted to js a long time ago to run the z-machine version of star trek. But - should be good enough :) )
Upon seeing this game, Tom Nelson and a friend wrote Begin, a tactical Star Trek simulation. It's been in C for over a decade, and still has a following. You can find it on Abandonia and other places. Even has a Wikipedia page. Though as far as I know it ISNT based on the Star Trek Battles paper game as suggested there. I'll ask Tom tomorrow.
I learned programming by reading the source code of this game in the fantastic book by David Ahl. I still remember an array called K which contained the X,Y coordinates and shield strength of each Klingon warship.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 37.7 ms ] threadA true Star Trek fan would know this violates the Treaty of Algeron: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Algeron
under "help cloak"
> The Treaty of Algeron with the Romulans in Stardate 2311 prohibits the use of cloaking devices. If a Romulan ship observes you cloaking or uncloaking after this point in time you will be in violation, which will hurt your final score.
A friend modded a version to automatically fire photon torpedoes when you entered a sector with Klingons. It calc'd the trajectory so it never missed.
Of course the downside was the blow back if you shot one right next to you. Or if there was a star in the way. Or there were >3 Klingons that would hammer you while the computer is cycling through the auto firing sequence.
If memory serves, I was playing it on thermal printer that eventually became the TI "Silent 700" series.
I believe the program was written in what was called "Super Fortran" at the time.
It was a great deal of fun.
[1] http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/ti-tymshare-100/...
(It is actually not emscripten -- it uses a z-machine emulator I adapted to js a long time ago to run the z-machine version of star trek. But - should be good enough :) )
There's actually a third game now, for Windows, you can find it here: http://www.starfleetproject.com/
http://www.amazon.com/BASIC-Computer-Games-Microcomputer-Dav...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-XWl9x13PU
here is the usual session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-XWl9x13PU
every time i started that game because people around me said it was fun, it reminded me of the "typical novice's session with ed" after a while.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EdIsTheStandardTextEditor
If you still want to play it, you distro probably have a package called bsdgames on the main package repo.