Until today, the last time I played Star Trek on a PDP 11, I was a young guy with my whole life ahead of me, taking computer classes and working in the mainframe and mini computer lab. And both of my beloved parents were alive. I owe a big thanks to the provider of this game disk. It’s called SPACWR in the book. The image in the book was not clear enough to even type it in. This is the DEC Basic-Plus version. A little taste…
RUN DL0:[100,100]SPACWR.ORG
* * * STAR TREK * * *
DO YOU WANT INSTRUCTIONS (THEY'RE LONG!)?
YOU MUST DESTROY 29 KLINGONS IN 30 STARDATES WITH 2 STARBASES
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<*> STARDATE 3000
CONDITION GREEN
* * QUADRANT 2, 3
* SECTOR 2, 5
* TOTAL ENERGY 3000
* PHOTON TORPEDOES 10
* SHIELDS 0
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COMMAND:? 2
LONG RANGE SENSOR SCAN FOR QUADRANT 2 , 3
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: 6 : 4 : 2 :
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: 105 : 7 : 1 :
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: 106 : 2 : 5 :
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COMMAND:? 7
COMPUTER ACTIVE AND AWAITING COMMAND:? 0
COMPUTER RECORD OF GALAXY FOR QUADRANT 2 , 3
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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1 0 6 4 2 0 0 0 0
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2 0 105 7 1 0 0 0 0
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3 0 106 2 5 0 0 0 0
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4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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COMMAND:?