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To: mlo
It's a memory display program.

It's actually the old text-based Star Trek game. If you zoom in on the picture, you can read: "Objective: Destroy __ Klingons in __ turns" (I can't make out the numbers) and "The number of Starbases is 7." The grid on the left that looks like a memory dump is actually a map showing the relative locations of the Enterprise, Klingons, stars, and Starbases.

35 posted on 12/20/2017 10:02:38 AM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: RansomOttawa; mlo

We played similar games on the pdp8. You had a limited number of Photon torpedoes, limited energy split between shields, sensors, phasers, engine power and life support systems.

You had to enter coordinates for torpedoes. Phasers just blasted stuff. If your warp engines get damaged or you lose too much energy, impule power only. Star bases can be used to repair and refuel.


36 posted on 12/20/2017 10:31:22 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: RansomOttawa; mlo
It's actually the old text-based Star Trek game.

Yep, Star Trek game. Real popular back then. I bought my 1977 Apple II and it came bundled with Star Trek on cassette tape, the only way to automatically load it without hand-typing in the program code. My Apple II still works, although I upgraded it to run on USB memory sticks with thousands of programs, and I will still play Star Trek as a nostalgic remembrance of the past from time to time. The PET, TRS-80 and Apple-II came out around the same time, a step up from the Altair and IMSAI machines out earlier, in ease of use.

41 posted on 12/20/2017 4:12:08 PM PST by roadcat
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