atoy@watmad.bitnet (12/16/86)
Does anyone have this? It seems to be a fantastic real-time multi-player visual Star Trek game from what I've read in the documentation. If you do have it, please send it me, post it, or let me know if I can get from you on tape. Here is an excerpt from the documentation which I have come across on our system (I don't have the executable or the source): ---- VAX Trek Version 2.0 Technical Manual Starfleet Command Engineering Division CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 OUR WORLD AND WELCOME TO IT! . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 CHAPTER 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND DISCLAIMERS CHAPTER 3 BACKGROUND INFORMATION 3.1 THE FEDERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1 3.2 THE KLINGON EMPIRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1 3.3 STARSHIP CLASSIFICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3 3.4 THE CARE AND FEEDING OF YOUR STARSHIP . . . . . . 3-6 3.5 STARSHIP BASICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7 3.5.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7 3.5.2 Starship Hints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7 CHAPTER 4 COMMANDS 4.1 CONCEPTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 4.2 USE OF CARRIAGE RETURN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 4.3 THE DEFAULT TEAM AND COMMANDS . . . . . . . . . . 4-2 4.4 TYPES OF COMMANDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2 4.5 COMMAND NAMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2 4.5.1 ? - Help Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3 4.5.2 h - Set Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3 4.5.3 H - Auto-pilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3 4.5.4 w - Set Warp Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4 4.5.5 s - Shield Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4 4.5.6 j - Jump Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 4.5.7 t - Fire Photon Torpedo . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 4.5.8 T - Fire Torpedo At Same Target . . . . . . . . 4-5 4.5.9 p - Fire Phasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6 4.5.10 P - Fire Phasers At Last Target . . . . . . . . 4-6 4.5.11 i - Interrogate Ship's Computer . . . . . . . . 4-6 4.5.11.1 Function One - Find Closest Base . . . . . . . 4-6 4.5.11.2 Function Two - Find Closest Hyper-port . . . . 4-6 4.5.11.3 Function Three - Damage Report . . . . . . . . 4-7 4.5.11.4 Function Four - List Known Bases . . . . . . . 4-8 4.5.11.5 Function Five - Set Torpedo Burst Size . . . . 4-8 4.5.11.6 Function Six - Perform Mapping Scan . . . . . 4-8 4.5.11.7 Function Seven - Set Automatic Shield Control 4-8 4.5.12 L - Launch Anti-matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9 4.5.13 M - Drop Anti-matter Mine . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9 4.5.14 a - Arm Active Anti-matter Pod . . . . . . . . . 4-9 4.5.15 f - Freeze Active Anti-matter Pod . . . . . . . 4-9 4.5.16 l - Long Range Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10 4.5.17 c - Toggle Cloaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10 4.5.18 g - Toggle Target Locking . . . . . . . . . . 4-10 4.5.19 r - Refresh Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10 4.5.20 m - Send Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11 4.5.21 q - Quit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11 4.5.22 d - Toggle Default Team Setting . . . . . . . 4-11 4.5.23 v - Toggle ISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11 4.5.24 x - Toggle CSM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11 4.5.25 n - Navigation Computer . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12 4.5.26 N - Toggle Star Names . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12 4.5.27 '0 - 9' - Change Warp Speed . . . . . . . . . 4-12 4.5.28 Arrow Keys (VT100 Only) . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13 4.5.29 PF1 And PF2 Keys (VT100 Only) . . . . . . . . 4-13 CHAPTER 5 SHIP'S DISPLAY 5.1 GENERAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1 5.1.1 The Default Team Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2 5.2 TERMINAL SCREEN DISPLAY EXAMPLE . . . . . . . . . 5-3 5.3 DESCRIPTION OF AREAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3 5.3.1 Area One - Weapon Status . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3 5.3.2 Area Two - Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4 5.3.3 Area Three - Short Range Scan . . . . . . . . . 5-4 5.3.3.1 Bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4 5.3.3.2 Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5 5.3.3.3 Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5 5.3.3.4 Natural Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6 5.3.4 Area Four - Long Range Scan . . . . . . . . . . 5-6 5.3.5 Area Five - Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6 CHAPTER 6 VAX TREK INTERNALS 6.1 THE PROGRAMS THAT MAKE UP VAX TREK . . . . . . . . 6-1 6.1.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1 6.1.2 The Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1 6.1.2.1 VTREK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1 6.1.2.1.1 VAX Trek Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1 6.1.2.2 Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3 6.1.2.3 Bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3 6.1.2.4 Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3 6.1.2.5 Comparv15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
cantrell@cae780.UUCP (Keith Cantrell) (12/19/86)
I would like a copy of this software too. Thanks, ---------------------------------------------------------------- FROM: Keith Cantrell, CAE Systems Division of Tektronix, Inc. UUCP: tektronix!cae780!cantrell {ihnp4, decvax!decwrl}!amdcad!cae780!cantrell {hplabs, resonex, qubix, leadsv}!cae780!cantrell USMAIL: 8111 L.B.J. Freeway Suite 655 Dallas, Texas 75251 AT&T: 214-669-8161 ----------------------------------------------------------------