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There was this "Star Trek" game for the early PC. (Fly your ship around, defeat bad guys, dock at starbases...) Pretty sure they managed to use every character

There was this "Star Trek" game for the early PC. (Fly your ship around, defeat bad guys, dock at starbases...) Pretty sure they managed to use every character in the character set, and every color as well. It was real time, and even had good sound effects (for a raw PC speaker). And it was unplayable off of a 4.77MHz machine. Can't remember the name, but I recall it fondly.

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stevekemp 4y ago
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, from Interplay might be a candidate? It looked like this, in the enhanced/later version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxtIFBLHOQs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxtIFBLHOQs
EarlKing 4y ago
Possibly you're thinking of Begin: A Tactical Starship Simulation[1]?? That, however, was not real-time at all but turn-based, since it was a direct descendant of the old mainframe Trek game. [1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/begin-a-tactical-starship-simulation https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/begin-a-tactical-starship...
- ghaff 4y ago
  I played that quite a bit at one point. However, after a while, you figured out some strategies that were pretty tedious but very hard for the computer to beat as I recall.
mynameishere 4y ago
There were a bunch of games based on the original "Star Trek" game. You might be thinking of "Star Fleet" https://www.mobygames.com/game/star-fleet-i-the-war-begins https://www.mobygames.com/game/star-fleet-i-the-war-begins
- whartung 4y ago
  The tell tale the I recall is that when you "warped out" (or whatever), there was a sound of the drive spinning up, since it was real time, spinning up the drive took time. When the buzz peaked, you were ready to go. I also remember the display being more busy than what we've seen here so far. I don't recall a splash screen, and it was all CGA. It was definitely '84-'85 time period, a friend just bought a new Tandy 1000 from Radio Shack that we played it on.

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stevekemp 4y ago

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, from Interplay might be a candidate? It looked like this, in the enhanced/later version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxtIFBLHOQs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxtIFBLHOQs

EarlKing 4y ago

Possibly you're thinking of Begin: A Tactical Starship Simulation[1]?? That, however, was not real-time at all but turn-based, since it was a direct descendant of the old mainframe Trek game. [1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/begin-a-tactical-starship-simulation https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/begin-a-tactical-starship...

ghaff 4y ago
I played that quite a bit at one point. However, after a while, you figured out some strategies that were pretty tedious but very hard for the computer to beat as I recall.

mynameishere 4y ago

There were a bunch of games based on the original "Star Trek" game. You might be thinking of "Star Fleet" https://www.mobygames.com/game/star-fleet-i-the-war-begins https://www.mobygames.com/game/star-fleet-i-the-war-begins

whartung 4y ago
The tell tale the I recall is that when you "warped out" (or whatever), there was a sound of the drive spinning up, since it was real time, spinning up the drive took time. When the buzz peaked, you were ready to go. I also remember the display being more busy than what we've seen here so far. I don't recall a splash screen, and it was all CGA. It was definitely '84-'85 time period, a friend just bought a new Tandy 1000 from Radio Shack that we played it on.