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Trek

11/14/2009 6:32 PM

By Tom Manos

I'm fascinated by old UNIX games and have a bunch of them on my SVR4 system. Today I found the sources of the original Eric Allman version of trek in C. This one came from a Version 7 UNIX source archive.

It's a terrific game in that it has a fair amount of complexity, and is test only. It even predates curses, so doesn't use full screen test graphics.

Now I have a pretty good collection of ancient games, including:

* trek
* the original colossal cave adventure
* rogue (the mother of all rogue-like games)
* hack (the original!)
* larn
* moria
* nethack

And I'm looking for more. Anyone have a favorite that I've forgotten about?

-Tom

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