Next is SuperTrek 64+ by Don Lekei: <https://youtu.be/NI9dbaNwVIs> This
is a conversion of Star Trek, the classic 1971 strategy game originally
by Mike Mayfield and later popularized and extended by David H. Ahl, Bob Leedom, and others. I believe Don released the game as freeware in
order to promote Sysres, a programming tool he designed and used to help convert the game, probably from Bob Leedom's well-known version. Don developed Sysres while director of engineering at Solidus International Corporation in North Vancouver, BC. Don's got a LinkedIn profile which
has seen activity as recently as 2013: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/lekei>
SuperTrek was and still is one of my favourite C64 games, no doubt
because it's fairly faithful to the tried-and-tested text-based classic,
yet wisely spruces things up with colour, sound, animation, and a custom character set. The game does have a few minor bugs, however, ranging
from rampant spelling errors to faulty logic in the phaser firing
mechanism. Perhaps one of these days I'll release a patched version!
I've just posted to YouTube two longplays of relatively obscure C64 games:
| Sysop: | DaiTengu |
|---|---|
| Location: | Appleton, WI |
| Users: | 1,086 |
| Nodes: | 10 (0 / 10) |
| Uptime: | 213:01:49 |
| Calls: | 13,904 |
| Calls today: | 1 |
| Files: | 187,015 |
| D/L today: |
2,162 files (529M bytes) |
| Messages: | 2,454,294 |