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Re: Space Trader game



In article <bt2qq0$e90$1@news.btv.ibm.com>,
 "Allan Chandler" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> Does anyone remeber a text based game on the Apple II where you played one
> of a number of organisations attempting to claim as much space as possible -
> it used the letters A thru E (I think) for Alpha Centauri, Betelguese,
> Capella, D... and Eridani and was basically a business simulation (takeovers
> and such) set in space.
> 
> I've recently gotten into Apple II emulation and have played AppleTrek a bit
> but I remember this trading game with more fondness back in 19*hack-cough*
> when I used Apples for the first time in high school.
> 
> Couldn't find anything like it in any of the (massive) collections on the
> web.
> 
> Any ideas?

Starlanes.  I thought it was something included on some of the early 
disks from Apple.  Still have a (modified to run longer) copy on a 
Bernie ][ the Rescue volume.  8,475 bytes of Applesoft BASIC...

Greg B.

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