anyone else play EGATrek?
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Plecostomus
Commodore
Go to this page and scroll down a bit. Best get version 2.31 as it is the last version before the author was forced to remove all Star Trek references.
Charlie
I remember this - wasn't it about destroying all Klingon ships in Federation space or something like that?
It must be about 18 years or so since I last saw it...
It must be about 18 years or so since I last saw it...
Now there's a blast from the past. I used to love WinTrek. And EGATrek for that matter.
EGATrek was one of many based on some really old terminal games from... ye olde days. The most recent one I've come across and played is another 'inspired-by" programmed in Java (called "JavaTrek", naturally.)
Alas, the developer abandoned it before making it as complete and more as EGATrek, but it has the "run around blowing things up" part down pat. I like the "leveling up" feature where when you get enough points/kills you can upgrade your ship with better weapons, engines, etc.. If I had more time, I'd decompile the thing and keep developing it myself.
Alas I don't remember much of EGATrek. The Trek game I played much more of was Turbo Trek, and that was the mid-90's.
Alas, the developer abandoned it before making it as complete and more as EGATrek, but it has the "run around blowing things up" part down pat. I like the "leveling up" feature where when you get enough points/kills you can upgrade your ship with better weapons, engines, etc.. If I had more time, I'd decompile the thing and keep developing it myself.
Alas I don't remember much of EGATrek. The Trek game I played much more of was Turbo Trek, and that was the mid-90's.
I had a game written in BASIC that was very similar to this. I don't know who wrote it, it just came on a set of floppies I got that contained hundreds of public domain and shareware games, all written in BASIC.
Lots of fun! I hacked the code to do weird things like make starbases shoot at the Klingon ships, and put a better shield system on it... but then I lost it, since I did this when I was about 10 years old.
Lots of fun! I hacked the code to do weird things like make starbases shoot at the Klingon ships, and put a better shield system on it... but then I lost it, since I did this when I was about 10 years old.
My favorite version was one I had on DOS for GW-BASIC, circa 1989, where you could abandon the Enterprise for the Fairie Queene and the game would randomly spit out quotations from The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
If anyone has that version, please let me know. I've searched in vain for ten years to find it!
If anyone has that version, please let me know. I've searched in vain for ten years to find it!
Several versions, when they came out for DOS.
Oh, I remember that one - at least seeing the program listing for it back in the early 80s. I think that was the Apple ][ version referred to here (which I printed off at school).
After flirting with the idea of converting it to my TRS-80 CoCo's flavor of BASIC, I gave up since it was much too long. However, I did enjoy reading the Meditations quotes in the code and later bought the book.
Sorry, I don't know of a source for the GW-BASIC version. Good luck in your quest.
Yeah, I've found references to the Apple ][ version, which I think was called "Apple Trek" online. And there's a code repository of some of the BASIC versions of Trek, but none of them are what I'm looking for.
I had a CoCo II myself! I converted David Ahl's "Super Star Trek" version from BASIC Computer Games (or maybe it was More BASIC Computer Games to Extended Color Basic, and it worked out pretty well.After flirting with the idea of converting it to my TRS-80 CoCo's flavor of BASIC, I gave up since it was much too long. However, I did enjoy reading the Meditations quotes in the code and later bought the book.
In the final issue of Hot CoCo, one of the magazines devoted to the CoCo, there was a sorta variant that I enjoyed. It was really long, and I spent a good week keying that one in and saving it as I went. You started out as the commander of the Reliant, and as you played the game you could work your way up in the ranks to newer, bigger, and more powerful ships.
