> In December 2013 I added three new commands -- CLOAK to cloak the Enterprise...

A true Star Trek fan would know this violates the Treaty of Algeron: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Algeron

Upon seeing this game, Tom Nelson and a friend wrote Begin, a tactical Star Trek simulation. It's been in C for over a decade, and still has a following. You can find it on Abandonia and other places. Even has a Wikipedia page. Though as far as I know it ISNT based on the Star Trek Battles paper game as suggested there. I'll ask Tom tomorrow.

Wow, this is one of the first computer games that I played. It was running on an HP minicomputer connected to a teletype device with a paper printout.

I learned programming by reading the source code of this game in the fantastic book by David Ahl. I still remember an array called K which contained the X,Y coordinates and shield strength of each Klingon warship.

I remember playing Star Trek on HP teletypes connected to the Peoria mainframe in the high school math lab. Jeez we burned through a lot of paper.

A friend modded a version to automatically fire photon torpedoes when you entered a sector with Klingons. It calc'd the trajectory so it never missed.

Of course the downside was the blow back if you shot one right next to you. Or if there was a star in the way. Or there were >3 Klingons that would hammer you while the computer is cycling through the auto firing sequence.

I remember playing this game as well, many, many years ago.

If memory serves, I was playing it on thermal printer that eventually became the TI "Silent 700" series.

I believe the program was written in what was called "Super Fortran" at the time.

It was a great deal of fun.

[1] http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/ti-tymshare-100/...

Watch! if you don't want to play it !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-XWl9x13PU

Great game. I played it recently in CPM on my Altair clone.

meh. this game was painful to be played after the 80s.

here is the usual session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-XWl9x13PU

every time i started that game because people around me said it was fun, it reminded me of the "typical novice's session with ed" after a while.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EdIsTheStandardTextEditor

     Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:


  golem> ed

  ?
  help
  ?
  ?
  ?
  quit
  ?
  exit
  ?
  bye
  ?
  hello? 
  ?
  eat flaming death
  ?
  ^C
  ?
  ^C
  ?
  ^D
  ?

If you still want to play it, you distro probably have a package called bsdgames on the main package repo.

Emscripten .js port Plz.