i spent sunday tampering in god’s domain

[solarbird]

I may have spent my Sunday off – my first day off in like three weeks – debugging UNIVAC Star Trek game code that was ported to TRS-80 Level II BASIC some decades ago. That may be a thing that happened.

(Well, I found some bugs. No, I did. One crashing! That doesn’t happen anymore. Also, now if you enter your name wrong, instead of hanging, it names you Captain Dunsel. It seemed appropriate.)

Here, have a copy of the audiocassette. Or a printout, if you’d prefer that. 16K required.

Did you know Level II BASIC’s built-in programme editor was based heavily on TECO? I feel a bit like Scarf Doctor stumbling across Shemp Doctor’s TARDIS console room and tin whistle. Or maybe it’s kind of like I spent Sunday afternoon flossing out my brain. For SCIENCE! Or something.

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Fire all phasers!

[janne.livejournal.com]

Ah, that takes me back to fooling around on some mainframe in... 1980? No high end graphics can give me the same thrill as seeing good old b&w trek prompts :D Thanks for the peek.

Re: Fire all phasers!

[solarbird]

TRS-80 emulators are totally around and you, yes you, could run this port of 1970s UNIVAC Star Trek game code. It's RIGHT THERE for the TAKING! :D