From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 24 1:22:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from argus.tfs.net (host1-128.birch.net [216.212.1.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF03814BFF for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 01:22:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbryant@argus.tfs.net) Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by argus.tfs.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) id DAA29152; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 03:21:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199910240821.DAA29152@argus.tfs.net> Subject: Re: trek73 In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Oct 24, 99 00:17:12 am" To: chuckr@picnic.mat.net (Chuck Robey) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 03:21:44 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Reply-To: jbryant@tfs.net X-Windows: R00LZ!@# MS-Winbl0wz DR00LZ!@# X-files: The truth is that the X-Files is fiction X-Republican: The best kind!!! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #31: Thu Apr 8 10:40:17 CDT 1999 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply: > On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > I found a copy of the C version of trek73 in my Amiga archives. This > > is the trek73 originally written in HP-2000 Basic that was rewritten > > by Dave Pare and Chris Williams in C and seriously enhanced by a bunch > > of people including me in my early college years circa 1985. > > > > I don't think any of the authors would mind if it went into /usr/games, > > but tracking them down is close to impossible since ucbvax no longer > > exists. If nobody knows different, I would like to clean it up (fairly > > easy since it's already in C) and commit it in. > > > > I've included the docs below. > > Remembering from ancient history, didn't this make the rounds to just > about anyone who wanted to learn code? I think it was even in a DEC games > book. > > I think putting this into games is safe, but there's another trek in games > already ... I haven't played trek in a looong time, is this one better in > some way than the one already there? If it doesn't get into /usr/games, > anyhow, it can certainly go into ports. we used to play a startrek [multi-user] at buena high school in ventura on the PDP-11/44 and was written in BASIC-Plus 2 under RSTS/E in 1984. It could have been a port of the same game... i've been looking for that one for years. i lost my only listing of that in one of my moves to texas from calif in 1986... jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ jbryant@tfs.net - KC5VDJ HF to 23cm grid: EM28pw - http://www.tfs.net/~jbryant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IC-706MkII - IC-T81A - HTX-202 - HTX-212 - HTX-404 - KPC3+ - PK-232MBX/DSP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message