Star Trek (Cochran) (1976)
A compact Star Trek that fits an 8K Altair: the same 8×8 galaxy, but built from arithmetic tricks (a true comparison is −1, so it counts Klingons by adding comparisons). It shares wording with the UT/Insinga cluster and is the parent of the Tiny BASIC version. Here the form without the instruction reader runs, exactly as archived; the other form reads its instructions from a disk file (OPEN, EOF, LINE INPUT #), which this site does not have. The listing prints ESC codes around the word after CONDITION: (probably a highlight on and off on a terminal we cannot identify), and the screen drops them.
Lineage
The shared UT/Insinga instruction text, carried to the Altair. (shared text or structure, measured)
- Built from arithmetic tricks: it counts Klingons by adding true/false comparisons.
- Two forms, one reading its instructions from a disk file.
- Parent of the Tiny BASIC version.
- Developers
- Lynn Cochran
- BASIC
- Altair 8K BASIC
- Written for
- Altair 8800 with Altair 8K BASIC
- Source
- Turnbull collection (two files)
See all versions of Star Trek in BASIC
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