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Updated the history of the game based on emails from Patrick Dumais
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Version 7.20 (not yet released)
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Updated the history of the game based on information kindly supplied by
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Patrick Dumais, who pointed out the source of Star Lanes in its original
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incarnation. Reworked the manual page as part of the updated history.
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Updated the Swedish, Norwegian Bokmaal, French, German, Serbian and
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Esperanto translations (in that order), with thanks to Anders Jonsson,
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Johnny A. Solbu, Frédéric Marchal, Roland Illig, Мирослав Николић and
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Early history
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The original (and very primitive) Star Traders game was written by S. J.
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Singer in 1984 using Altair Basic. This was modified for Microsoft Basic
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(MBASIC) running under the CP/M-80 operating system by John Zaitseff and
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released on 7th March, 1988.
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The original (and very primitive) game was written by Steven Faber and
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published as Star Lanes on pages `131–138`__ in :t:`Interface Age`,
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June 1977. It was described by the magazine’s software editor as:
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… a new imaginative Monopoly-type microcomputer game that everyone
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can and will want to play if you have a microcomputer. Like the
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Monopoly game, STAR LANES combines financial and positional
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strategies as players attempt to lay claim to valuable pieces of
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space real estate between the stars in the Galaxy.
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-- Robert A. Stevens, page 123__, :t:`Interface Age`, June 1977
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__ https://www.zap.org.au/projects/trader/historical/mbasic/src/star-lanes.pdf
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__ https://archive.org/details/197706InterfaceAge/page/n124/mode/1up
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S. J. Singer took Star Lanes and republished it in 1984 as Star Traders.
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His version was modified by John Zaitseff for Microsoft Basic (MBASIC)
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running under the CP/M-80 operating system; it was released on 7th
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March, 1988.
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Star Traders was then completely rewritten in 1990 for the
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Australian-designed 8-bit MicroBee computer running CP/M-80 on a Zilog
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Z80 processor, using Turbo Pascal 3.01a. Essentially, only the name of
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the game and some of the ideas were retained in this version. Version
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4.1 of Star Traders was released on 1st August, 1991.
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the game, the names of the first five companies and some of the key ideas
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were retained in this version. Version 4.1 of Star Traders was released
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on 1st August, 1991.
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In 1992, it was recompiled for the NEC Advanced Personal Computer (with
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8-inch floppy drives!) running CP/M-86 on an 8086 processor, using Turbo
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them.
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.\" *********************************************************************
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.SH HISTORY
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The original (and very primitive) Star Traders game was written by
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S.\~J\. Singer in 1984 using Altair Basic. This was modified for
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Microsoft Basic (MBASIC) running under the CP/M-80 operating system by
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John Zaitseff and released on 7th March, 1988.
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The original (and very primitive) game was written by Steven Faber and
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published as Star Lanes on pages 131\(en138 in
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.IR "Interface Age" ,
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June 1977. It was described by the magazine's software editor as:
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.PP
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.RS
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\[hellip] a new imaginative Monopoly-type microcomputer game that
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everyone can and will want to play if you have a microcomputer. Like the
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Monopoly game, STAR LANES combines financial and positional strategies as
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players attempt to lay claim to valuable pieces of space real estate
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between the stars in the Galaxy.
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.sp 0.3v
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\(em Robert A\. Stevens, page 123,
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.IR "Interface Age" ,
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June 1977.
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.RE
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.PP
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S.\~J\. Singer took Star Lanes and republished it in 1984 as Star
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Traders. His version was modified by John Zaitseff for Microsoft Basic
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(MBASIC) running under the CP/M-80 operating system; it was released on
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7th March, 1988.
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.PP
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Star Traders was then completely rewritten in 1990 for the
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Australian-designed 8-bit MicroBee computer running CP/M-80 on a Zilog
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Z80 processor, using Turbo Pascal 3.01a. Essentially, only the name of
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the game and some of the ideas were retained in this version. Version
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4.1 of Star Traders was released on 1st August, 1991.
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the game, the names of the first five companies and some of the key ideas
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were retained in this version. Version 4.1 of Star Traders was released
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on 1st August, 1991.
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.PP
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In 1992, it was recompiled for the NEC Advanced Personal Computer (with
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8-inch floppy drives!) running CP/M-86 on an 8086 processor, using Turbo
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