Star Traders
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Feb 272007
For some reason, today was “REALLY retro” game day here at work. And after we moved from Star Raiders to the TRS-80 version of Space War, I remembered another oldie game I loved: Star Traders, which I played on an Osborne I running CP/M.
A quick Google later I find bsittler’s Home Page, which has some very familiar source code on it (scroll a bit down). I remember trying to port this very same source code from MS-BASIC to Atari BASIC…
And then, a bit later, I’m playing it. Grab it here (tiny ZIP file). The “ntrade” version no longer works, but the old classic version still does. Eridani Outfitters has merged with Betelgeuse, and there was a 2 for 1 stock split…
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Wow! A blast from the past …
In the last few weeks, I’ve been checking out some legacy games that I’d played on the Atari 800. Star Raiders is one of the staples, being the first “PC” game that I played, although I rarely get above the rank “Garbage Scow Captain” now. My most recent exploration has been with “Autoduel”, which I loved for the sandbox nature, but I hated because it was so damn boring.
Actually, after doing a “quick read” through this post, I was hoping to read through some Atari BASIC source code … we didn’t call it “source code” back then, did we? I loved Atari BASIC in the way it used strings and the way one could manipulate bytes by using them.
Oh well, so much for nostalgia … back to using char arrays 🙂
Think the oldest Space Game I ever really played was Master of Orion on a 486. I hear star traders and start raiders were the forerunners of the space strategy games only they had more fps elements. Might have to try them out.
Star Raiders is totally a first person shooting experience. Amazing that it fit in 16k, with everything it has in it.
Star Traders, however, is so so not. 🙂 Nothing but econ strategy.
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mmm…. i miss wizard’s crown and eternal dagger.
m3mnoch.
Fantastic! This is the first game I ever played, back on a TTY in the 70’s. That and Adventure. Forget those Zork “clones” I’ll go for the original thanks :^)
I taught my sister how to type and do simple math with an MSDOS clone of that game…