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"Charles Richmond" <rich...@ev1.net> wrote in message
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> I am aware that _BASIC Computer Games_, edited by David Ahl,
> contains a Star Trek game in BASIC. There is even a version in
> _101 BASIC Computer Games_, edited again by Dave Ahl, although
> this version is under the deceptive title of "SPACWR".
>
> In the magazines BYTE, Creative Computing, Dr. Dobb's, and
> Interface Age, were there ever any versions of the BASIC game
> Star Trek??? Can someone post the date of the issues containing
> these listings???

Back in the early 80s when the 8-bit micro boom was at it's height in the UK
there were a few mags over here that specialised in printing listings for
the readers. This is long before the days of cover mounted floppies or even
cassette tapes.
The language of choice was BASIC, almost all the home machines ran it, and
Star Trek was one of the most popular games. With the range of machines we
had then there were about 6 or so mags supporting them for a number of
years, you could count on a Star Trek listing popping up in at least one of
them every three or four months.
I don't know if the same sort of thing was published in other countries, the
UK went 'puter crazy about 20 years ago.
Two titles I remember were Your Computer and Computer & Video Games, the
latter I think is still going but hasn't printed listings for over a decade
AFAIK.