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by jmclnx 229 days ago
Nice to see this happening, FWIW:

I uploaded a very old Star Trek Game I think from 1973. I got it from the Coherent OS people. You can get it by issuing these commands:

curl 'gopher://sdf.org/0/users/jmccue/repository/trek-73.tar.gz' -o trek-73.tar.gz

curl 'gopher://sdf.org/0/users/jmccue/repository/trek-73.tar.gz.asc' -o trek-73.tar.gz.asc

and my gpg key in case you want to validate the download:

curl 'gopher://sdf.org/0/users/jmccue/jmcsdf.asc' -o jmcsdf.asc
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vejeta 229 days ago
Hey John, I tried your build, just out of curiosity, something worth preserving too. I noticed it when compiling that the code also needed to be modernized, the same thing I had to do for conquer for the gpl-release.

I read in a comment below that work was already done, isn´t?

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anthk 229 days ago
Trek lives in every OpenBSD install. And OFC with any Basic interpreter running the original game. I translated a Zmachine port into Spanish, too. ZTrek.
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ilaksh 229 days ago
Is it Trek or Super Star Trek?

https://github.com/philspil66/Super-Star-Trek

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anthk 229 days ago
https://gamicus.fandom.com/wiki/BSD_Trek
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vejeta 229 days ago
Hey Anthk, if you ported it to a Zmachine, does it mean is it like an interactive fiction game (aventura conversacional in spanish). Is it in the CAAD archive?
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anthk 228 days ago
No is not a text adventure game; it just runs under the ZMachine. You have several other examples at IFDB, such as Tetris, Robots Find Kitten, Madbomber... I did internally as a translation at https://caja.texto-plano.xyz/anthk/zgames/spa/trek/ in order to provide a quick translated Trek game. Yes, I could use some Basic SST port but this made the game universally playable. It isn't a IF game because it doesn't use the INFSP6 Spanish grammar (the counterpart to the English Inform6 one). That's it, it uses raw Inform instructions.

The game is not at CAAD because they woudn't accept as it a text adventure game.

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vejeta 228 days ago
Cool. Thanks for sharing it! I am going to play. Regarding instructions, I will find my way, but other less computer savvy users might need a README there. See you in USENET!
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anthk 228 days ago
You can use Frotz or anything else, and as for the help, it's builtin both in Spanish and English per game edition.

https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/ztrek.z5 English version.

For instance: frotz ztrek.z5

Or Winfrotz under Windows, or Lectrote for any OS.

By pressing '9' you get the online help, in any language. Have fun.

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