Flack
07-06-2005, 12:39 PM
My father used to play this old game all the time on our old TRS-80 Model III. He says it was called "Space War" but after Googling I think either he's mistaken or there were a lot of games called "Space War" (either one or both are entirely possible).
My dad says the game was played in a grid of several screens linked together. The game was drawn completely with ASCII graphics. In the game you had bases, fuel, and enemy ship. The way he describes it, it almost sounds similar to Rogue. In the game he says he remembers you had to fire phasers and then enter a direction like 90 degrees, 180 degrees, etc.
Does anyone know what this game might be? I'd like to track him down and then get him set up with an emulator to be able to play it once again. If that's not possible, I'd like to play it myself and re-write it in Visual Basic or something.
My dad says the game was played in a grid of several screens linked together. The game was drawn completely with ASCII graphics. In the game you had bases, fuel, and enemy ship. The way he describes it, it almost sounds similar to Rogue. In the game he says he remembers you had to fire phasers and then enter a direction like 90 degrees, 180 degrees, etc.
Does anyone know what this game might be? I'd like to track him down and then get him set up with an emulator to be able to play it once again. If that's not possible, I'd like to play it myself and re-write it in Visual Basic or something.