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Space Travel

This is a Go port of Ken Thompson's Space Travel, based on the C port by mohd-akram, ported from PDP-7 assembly. The original source files are in src/cmd/st*.s in the pdp7-unix repository.

Install

The SDL2 library is required.

Run go install github.com/gophun/st@latest

Controls

Key Action
1 Quit
2 New game
3 Thrust down
4 Thrust up
5 Yaw right
6 Yaw left
7 Scale up
8 Scale down

You can also use the arrow keys for yaw and scale.

Gameplay

For controls, there were several buttons: jet forward, jet back, turn left, turn right; go up scale on the display, go down scale. The acceleration of the ship was fixed, but it scaled with the display scale--it was thus fixed in terms of pixels/sec/sec. Normally the ship was in the center of the screen and always pointed up; the display showed the plan view of the solar system, so that the "rotate" controls rotated the solar system around you on the display.

No relativity; scale up enough and you travel to Pluto in a few seconds. But don't scale up too much, or you might not find the Solar System again without restarting.

The object of the game was simply to fly around, get into orbits, land. "Land" meant to cross the surface with a small enough speed.

Space Travel: Exploring the solar system and the PDP-7 by Dennis Ritchie

The current dominating attractor, scale, and landing status (L/CL for landed/crash landed) are displayed at the bottom. The moving dot on the line below the main view represents the horizontal velocity relative to the current dominating attractor.

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