[brightrhino]

I gasped when I saw this screen, it was the first game I played on a computer, my science teacher's TRS-80 he brought to school. My friend Jim and I would take turns sitting at the keyboard and calling out commands to type. I haven't seen that screen in over 40 years. Later that year I got my first programming job writing some program in basic to track grades for the teacher. Goodness it brings back a flood of memories, the black science lab table the computer was on, the green or was it amber screen, the floppy disk drive thunk when you closed it and the sounds of the drive working. Our excitement when we would destroy an enemy, or make it safely to a space station. What a great time we had with that simple machine.

[antonvs]

I played this on an IBM 370/158 mainframe. I got in trouble for printing out its FORTRAN source code - I was accused of wasting university resources. But I had printed it out because I was working on an assignment to implement a game, and I wanted to look at a game implementation as an example. Admittedly the game I was implementing was the card game Patience, but still.

[pomian]

Do you still have that print out? It would be awesome to try it. (I have the original multi wars, written in basic(Dartmouth college), it was a print only game, but multi user for anyone on campus who could join in. One of these days!

[antonvs]

I don’t. That was nearly 50 years ago in another country. Moving countries tends to be hard on one’s collection of stuff.

Searching, I see there seem to be plenty of versions of it out there. I also found someone selling a printout: https://www.ebay.com/itm/203263286436

[AtlasBarfed]

Appletrek and those dangerous klarnons. Did anyone ever do the 20/200 in time?