[Coco] Jake Commander's Color Trek

[theother_bob]

Just the opposite actually, the original listing would only work properly on a disk-based system. There was a fix ("Damage Report, Mr. Scott") on p.46 of the July '83 issue of TCCM. The original Space Trek article appeared in May '83.

The game didn't actually use any disk commands (system requirements stated 16K ECB), but it used a trick of tokenization to generate some lo-res graphics strings. I always thought it was a convoluted method of generating those strings, and fixing it meant that you ended up with different colors than the original version, due to using different (cassette-based) tokens.

Yes, I dug out my magazines to confirm all of this.

Cheers,
Bob



----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Adams <yahoogroups36 at hotmail.com>
To: CoCO Mailing List <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:47:12 PM
Subject: [Coco] Jake Commander's Color Trek


Yes, Jake Commander did a BASIC Star Trek game, published in Color Computer Magazine. Don't recall exactly, but one of the first 2 or 3 issues, I'm pretty sure. I seem to recall it being called 'Color Trek'. Took a couple of days for me to type it in, back in the day.

IIRC, the original listing did not work correctly with a Disk Basic system; I believe CCM published an addendum later to correct that.

Heck, why isn't Jake on the Malted Media list, anyhow?

HTH,

Richard
> ------------------------------> > Message: 6> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:18:39 -0800> From: "John Guin" <Johnguin at hotmail.com>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Was Star Trek ever ported to the Coco?> To: "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'" <coco at maltedmedia.com>> Message-ID: <BAY138-DS2B26E92A31522A1000D98D9130 at phx.gbl>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > This rings a bell - did "Jake Commander" have something to do with this> game? Did he have an article in Hot Coco/80-Micro/CCM with this game> ported?> > John> > -----Original Message-----> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On> Behalf Of Bruce W. Calkins> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 11:38 AM> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts> Subject: Re: [Coco] Was Star Trek ever ported to the Coco?> > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:26:05AM -0800, John wrote:> > Hello all,> >> > I stumbled across this BASIC article about the old Star Trek game:> >> > I know
 the screen size of the C
oco would have made this hard to port, > > but does anyone know if this game was ported to the Coco or not?> >> > I have no idea where to get the code.> >> > John> > > > > I typed in a couple of BASIC Star Trek styled games way back when.> > The first one was one of the few games that I played past the debugging> stage.> > It was probably from "The Color Computer Magazine."> > > > If IRCC the names were Galaxy 1 and 2.> > > > Bruce W.> > 
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