Talk:Space Battle (video game)

My First Real Program

I wrote this program, though I have to give credit where credit is due: the initial logic was borrowed from a teletype game running on the Dearborn, Michigan, school system's computer at the time. The program was written in HP BASIC, and I printed it off in the spring of 1977 out of curiosity. A month or so later, I got a part time job working in a Radio Shack store. In August 1977, Radio Shack announced the TRS-80 computer, and I was our store's fourth customer for the TRS-80. I think I spent half the money I made at Radio Shack, at Radio Shack itself.

Anyway, after learning to write the simplest of programs on that machine, I dove into making my own version of the Hewlett Packard "Star Trek" game. I eventually sold the rights to the program in exchange for a TRS-80 expansion box with 48K of RAM. The buyer was Victor Andrews of Level IV Computers.

A few years ago, I found a copy of my program floating around the internet, and made some minor changes to it to fix some bugs I saw while running it on an emulator, and I also disabled the primitive copy protection I had implemented back then.

--Rpapo (talk) 12:21, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

As for the origin of the cover art, it wasn't me. I never saw that image before seeing it posted on this article. "Creative" is all I can say, as it has almost no connection at all to the game itself, which doesn't feature Egyptians in space suits nor pyramids. --Rpapo (talk) 11:35, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

I think it's an advertisement, not the actual cover. 207.229.139.154 (talk) 12:43, 6 January 2022 (UTC)