TREK73 (1973)
No galaxy grid: continuous space, timed input, directional shields, antimatter pods, probes, surrender or bluff, and crew banter. The listing here is Pete Turnbull's 2003 retype of a 45-page printout: five programs in one file that chain to each other. Run here on an HP 2000 profile inferred from the listings: the five programs chain to one another with COM variables kept, as on the HP; the game's timed input (ENTER) waits without a time limit here, so the response-time effects are absent. One line of the retype (TREK0 line 5810) sends a skipped probe back to the top of its own loop, forever; the tape version of the same code goes to the NEXT, so the run sends it to line 5820; and TREK4 line 7505 says GOTO 7235 where its sibling branches (and the tape version's matching block) go on to the next block, so it is read as GOTO 7535 (the archived text is untouched).
Lineage
An independent design by William Char; no descent from Mayfield is known. (no link found)
- Continuous space rather than a galaxy grid; timed input; directional shields; crew banter.
- Too large for one program: five programs sharing COM storage and CHAINing.
- Developers
- William K. Char; Perry Lee; Dan Gee
- BASIC
- HP 2000 Time-Shared BASIC
- Written for
- HP 2000 time-sharing system
- Source
- Turnbull collection (retyped from a listing supplied by Kermit Murray, November 2003); kermitmurray.com history page
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