retroTrek

The Free Galactic Federation has been invaded by battle cruisers of the

Klarnon Empire. Several Federation star-systems are under attack. As

an experienced officer, you have just been given command of the starship

Endeavor. Your three-year mission, should you choose to accept it, is

to search the Galaxy and destroy all Klarnon battle cruisers. If you

succeed, the federation will survive. If not, •••••••

retroTrek was developed to adhere as closely to the original integer basic code as possible.  Commands are executing with button presses numbered from "0" to "9" and responding to prompts as in the original.  You pilot the Endevour in a universe that is made up of quadrants in a 8x8 grid.  Each quadrant is further broken down to 8x8 sectors.  Sectors can contain stars, bases, and your enemy, the Klarnons.  Manage your ship's resources, navigation, shields, and weapons while attempting to eliminate the Klarnon threat.

Note to my customers:

I developed this app as a kind of "vanity" project to see if I could do it.  It's based on the first computer game I ever played.  Way back in the dark ages, when computers actually took up a whole room, a friend's father brought us to to the U of I computer lab where he worked.  There he sat us down in front of two terminals and we played what was called "VistaTrek".  A computer space battle game based loosely on Star Trek.  A couple years later, my junior high bought a few Apple II+ computers.  Being a burgeoning geek, I was there for the unboxing and first setup of the comptuter.  Low and behold what came on the system disk in the box?  Something called AppleTrek.  I quickly taught the other kids and teacher how to play the game.  Last year a downloaded an app called "Akalabeth" on my iPhone.  It's a direct and really good port of the first computer role playing game.  I remembered AppleTrek and hoping that someone took the initiative to make a port for the iPhone so that I could show my kids what dad used to be amused with, I searched the store and found only modern interpretations of the game mechanic but no direct port.  Last October I decided to give development and try and to recreate the experience of that first game on something that fits in my pocket.

If you want to know more about what it was like to get something developed for this platform, drop me an email.  If you want to relieve the glory of saving galaxy in beautiful phosphor green and black, then download my game and enjoy!!!!