A true Star Trek fan would know this violates the Treaty of Algeron: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Algeron
under "help cloak"
> The Treaty of Algeron with the Romulans in Stardate 2311 prohibits the use of cloaking devices. If a Romulan ship observes you cloaking or uncloaking after this point in time you will be in violation, which will hurt your final score.
There's actually a third game now, for Windows, you can find it here: http://www.starfleetproject.com/
http://www.amazon.com/BASIC-Computer-Games-Microcomputer-Dav...
A friend modded a version to automatically fire photon torpedoes when you entered a sector with Klingons. It calc'd the trajectory so it never missed.
Of course the downside was the blow back if you shot one right next to you. Or if there was a star in the way. Or there were >3 Klingons that would hammer you while the computer is cycling through the auto firing sequence.
If memory serves, I was playing it on thermal printer that eventually became the TI "Silent 700" series.
I believe the program was written in what was called "Super Fortran" at the time.
It was a great deal of fun.
[1] http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/ti-tymshare-100/...
""" The course is determined by the Space Inertial Navigation System [SINS]. As described in Star Fleet Technical Order TO:02:06:12, the SINS is calibrated, after which it becomes the base for navigation. If damaged, navigation becomes inaccurate. When it is fixed, Spock recalibrates it, however, it cannot be calibrated extremely accurately until you dock at starbase. """
looking at the source it validates course as 0 to 360.. so looks like angle. yet 0 goes up. 90 goes up...
here is the usual session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-XWl9x13PU
every time i started that game because people around me said it was fun, it reminded me of the "typical novice's session with ed" after a while.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EdIsTheStandardTextEditor
Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:
golem> ed
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help
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?
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quit
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exit
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bye
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hello?
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eat flaming death
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^C
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^C
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^D
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If you still want to play it, you distro probably have a package called bsdgames on the main package repo.(It is actually not emscripten -- it uses a z-machine emulator I adapted to js a long time ago to run the z-machine version of star trek. But - should be good enough :) )