Apple
Trek was published in November 1978 by
Wendell Sander (who later became head engineer of the
Apple /// Team), on a software collection called
The Apple Tapes-
Introductory programs for the Apple II. It was written in
Integer BASIC for the original
Apple IIs which didn't have
floating point BASIC.
Pop quiz: How do you do
trigonometry calculations when you don't have floating point nor a
sin() function???
The object is simple: You are the captain of the
E. You have been assigned a 3 year mission to seek and destroy
K battle cruisers, with the help of
Bs scattered across the galaxy.
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: :14 :4 :8 :606:7 : : : :
: :3 :6 :404:4 :6 : : : :
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COMMAND?
QUADRANT 6-3 SECTOR 7-8
1 YEARS 2.92
2 STARDATE 3424.0
* K 3 CONDITION RED
* 4 SHIELDS 50%
5 SHIELD ENERGY 2215
K K * 6 AVAIL ENERGY 2470
K E7 PH TORPS 10
* 8 KLINGONS 43
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 BASES 2
COURSE NOT SET.
How to read the navigation array: The hundreds digits represent the number of Klingons occupying a sector, the tens digits are the
starbases and the units are the stars.
You are equipped with
photon torpedo tubes,
phaser arrays, a navigation and tactical computer as well as a full complement of the best
starfleet officers of the
Federation.
A short help file found somewhere on Google:
APPLE TREK COMMANDS -- Compiled by Paula -- Rev.3/80
--------------------------------------------------------
FIRING ANGLES
------------- MAIN MENU COMMANDS
------------------
315 0 45 1--Navigation
\ | / 2--Shield Energy
\|/ 3--Damage Report
270---E---90 4--Phasers
/|\ 5--Photon Torpedos COMPUTER COMMANDS
/ | \ 6--Load Photons ---------------------
225 180 135 7--Ships Computer ----> 1--Compute Quadrant
8--Probe 2--Lock Phasers
9--Self Destruct 3--Lock Photon Torpedos
4--Lock Course
5--Compute Trajectory
6--Return To Main Menu
Sources:
A list of old Apple books (in japanese!): http://member.nifty.ne.jp/apple2tree/manual/manual3.htm
The ASIMOV archive of Apple II software: ftp://public.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/
The Apple /// FAQ: http://www.wap.org/a3/a3faq.html
and finally, extra kudos to Michael O'Brien, author and Oliver Schmidt, maintainer of the AppleWin emulator: http://www.jantzer-schmidt.de/applewin/