Save Our Ship/Galaxy Trek Adventure

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Save Our Ship/Galaxy Trek Adventure

#1 Post by Strident » Sun Aug 15, 2021 4:53 pm

From information elsewhere... such as comments left on the Gamingafter40 blog, and notes from @jgerrie on the IFDB entry...
https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=5zlnxk01px57la1d
http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/2017/05/

Save Our Ship by Randy Hawkins
from 80micro, August 1982
https://archive.org/details/80-microcom ... /page/n173
bug fixes... from December 1982... https://archive.org/details/80_Micro_19 ... S/page/n33

...was used, without credit, as the basis for...
Galaxy/Galaxy Trek Adventure
by Howard Batie
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C51 ... +%231.html

If this is the case, then I'm not 100% sure of the best way to deal with it. Following the CASA policy to the letter, it should become the main entry in the database, with the Galaxy Trek derivative added in the notes. But the Galaxy Trek version is probably better known, on several formats and also had its own sequel... So it may be less confusing if the Save Our Ship original has its own entry, and that is linked to on the Galaxy Trek page.

Edit:
Roger Wilcox has a .cas file for "Star Trek adventure" by Randy Hawkins on his website, http://www.rogermwilcox.com/apps/ (I've not yet checked this out)
"I typed this in from an article titled "Save Our Ship" in 80 Microcomputing's annual games issue (August 1982). This particular game avoided giving away spoilers to a casual reader of the program listing by storing all its text in substitution-cipher strings. It also features the planet "Teiras 80." Get it? 'Cause it's on a TRS-80? ... <crickets> (Geez, tough room.)"

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Re: Save Our Ship/Galaxy Trek Adventure

#2 Post by Alex » Sun Aug 15, 2021 8:23 pm

Personally, I should leave it as a separate entry with an explanation in the notes.

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