| This is a classic version of the old program
TREK, inspired originally by the 1960's TV show Star Trek.
The original MS-BASIC version of this specific DOS
implementation was written by me in graduate
school in 1983 to emulate (from memory) the FORTRAN version of Super Star
Trek that had run on our broken lab PDP-11/34.
That PDP-11/34 FORTRAN version of Super Star Trek was written around 1975, I believe by David Matuszek &
Paul Reynolds with modifications by Don Smith.
Being often in a
low-temperature physics lab overnight nursing a He3-He4
dilution fridge, He3 cryostat, or He4 cryostat, I
often had too much time on my hands in between moments of sheer terror.
During those boring times, I rewrote my MS-BASIC version of TREK, greatly
expanding it's capabilities and sophistication in the
1980's. I converted it to Quick Basic 4.5 somewhere along the way, with the
final Quick Basic version written in 1991. That version, v3.0, is about 3000 lines of
code.
This is that version, with its expanded
capabilities.
That version produces the file TREK.EXE. It encompasses the original 1960's
Star Trek universe ("Original Series" or OS), or the 1980's Star Trek Next Generation (NG) universe.
It also operates in real time, so that if you do nothing, your enemies (Kingons
or NG Ferengi) are still able to attack you, and there are other entities
(OS Berserker "planet killers" or NG Borg) which will chase after you across
the galaxy if you irritate them.
You can dock at Star Bases to repair and refuel, and if a planet has
dilithium crystals, you can transport down (if the transporter is working)
and refuel that way. You can abuse the warp drive to time warp, as well as
sometimes time warp if you hit a black hole. Black holes can also absorb
photon torpedoes. All in all, this was a pretty
sophisticated version of TREK for it's time. Development on it stopped in
1991.
The zip file below contains
three versions of "TREK".
1.
TREK.EXE can run under DOS, Win 95, Win Me, & Win 98. TREK.EXE should run under any 16-bit or 32-bit version of
the Windows NT family (Windows NT (32 bit), Windows 2000 (32 bit), Win XP
(32 bit),
Windows Vista (32 bit), Windows 7 (32 bit), 8 (32 bit), 10 (32 bit). It will not run
under a 64-bit version of the Windows NT family.
2. Trek32.exe.
In early 2013, I stumbled over the old 1991 source code for TREK, and
decided to recompile it using
QB64 without any functional modification to run under
modern 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. That recompiled version is a 32-bit
application called TREK32 (or 64-bit TREK32M for macOS) which really just reflects the compiler target
application type. The source code of
TREK32
is identical to that of TREK with the only difference being trivial changes
to some variable handling to accommodate
QB64's different handling of the PC's memory, and a
name change for the backup ship (to make it politically correct). TREK32M
also has the QB "BEEP" commands commented out as the
QB64 v1.5 Mac compiler
has bugs compiling that command.
TREK32.exe will run under all versions (32-bit & 64-bit) of Win XP, Windows
Vista, Windows Server, Windows 7, 8, 10 & 11.
3. TREK32M will run under
macOS. (Last tested on macOS Monterey.)
For Windows systems that can run both TREK & TREK32,
TREK32 will usually run & display better than TREK will.
I'll state the usual warning that I'm not responsible for any issues this software may cause you or
your machine, nor do I guarantee that this software will work on any
specific machine.
This zip file contains TREK.exe and TREK32.exe for Windows, and TREK32M for macOS. Just unzip
the files into a folder and run either TREK or TREK32 directly in Windows,
or TREK32M in macOS.
The TREK32.exe
file for
Windows binary
is digitally code signed with a SHA1 Code Signing Certificate issued by
Digicert, a major trusted
Certificate Authority's (CA).
The TREK32M
file for macOS binary
is signed with with my
Apple Developer
certificate issued by Apple (but the binary is not notarized, so you
will have to tell
Gatekeeper it's OK to run it).
Download the zip
file by clicking here. (Right click, select "Save as...")
Trek Readme.txt file
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