DOS Games Discussion

Pere Ubu · Guest

I've checked Trekcore and I can't find it - the screenshot there of EGA Trek looks very much like the display I remember from this game, but it ran in real-time and didn't have "sectors" etc. - the "universe" was one large area you could fly around in.

Lots of color - different types of weapons and aliens, including one annoying alien who'd chase your ship and drain it of energy. Different planets with resources.

Imagine a cross between EGA Trek and the video game "Bosconian" and you'll pretty much have what I'm looking for.

I could have sworn the game was "VGA Trek", but a) it LOOKS more like EGA Trek and b) none of the "VGA Trek"s I can see corresponds to it.

Another detail - documentation had to be accessed from inside the game; there was no seperate doc file, and the instructions were very long and very complicated. The game would have probably come out around the late Eighties.

Any ideas?

dosraider · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:35 am Post subject:

Could it be Visual Star Trek?
http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=1234

Something similar?

Guest · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:14 am Post subject:

Larry Laffer · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:24 am Post subject:

You sure it's not one of the games in the "If you liked this game, try:" section(lower on the page)?

Pere Ubu · Guest

dosraider · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:21 am Post subject:

Hmmmm, problem is of course that every shareware CD in those days was filled with Star Trek clones, there are tons of those.

Take a look@Starclash 2:
http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=3299

And do a search@
http://www.the-underdogs.info/genre.php?offset=0&id=10&subgen=4X%20in%20space&sort=name
Even if HotUs is a bit slow to use as search engine .... Sad

[Edit]
Let me add this link, ya never know .....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MS-DOS_games

Pere Ubu · Guest

I WAS called VGA Trek, and it was an advanced version of EGA Trek.

Now only problem is, it's nowhere on the 'Net. No-where. There's ANOTHER VGA Trek I can find, but it's not the one I want. Urgh!

If anyone can help me out it'd be greatly, greatly appreciated. Meanwhile it's back to my floppies to see if maybe I had a copy squirreled away on a disk that still actually works...

dosraider · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:23 am Post subject:

Post a pic of the version that is NOT the one you want, I -(and others here)- have plenty shareware stuffies laying arouns, but we can't help you if we don't know what you're not looking for......

BTW: there are several fanmade VGA Trek, clones of EGA Trek.

BTW, as you're a guest you can't direcly post links, use the
w w w.imageshack.us/whatever_goes_here
method.

Pere Ubu · Guest

dosraider · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:48 am Post subject:

Yep also have that VGATrek
... and another one, from Wardrich's shareware CD: VTrek.
I've posted it @zshare
vtrek.rar - 0.11MB
Runs fine in dosbox, give it a look .... ya never know.

Pere Ubu · Guest

dosraider · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:47 am Post subject:

Damn.
Will take a further look when I have some time ..... don't hold your breath, won't be soon that I will dig through my ol'CDs again, sorry.

One of those days I will make a complete DB of what's on thoseCDs.
Something I say for the last 20 years Laughing

Dogbreath · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:35 am Post subject:

See, that's the problem with procrastination. For about 6 years now I've been burning different games onto CDs and saying "I'll categorize all this one day when I have the time." Well, I have about 50 CDs full (plus a couple shareware browsers with 1000+ games), which I think adds up to ~8,000 or so games, and if I were try and organize that mess now it'd take years. Sad

Larry Laffer · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject:

Dogbreath, the pirate dog.

A pirate that never heard of the amazing capacity of DVDs, but a pirate nonetheless Laughing

dosraider · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:48 pm Post subject:

DVD???? For games that rarely exceed 1MB Confuzzled

Larry, what have they done with you? Meh